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Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:58:04 +1300

Discussion from blog post.

giovanni tiso

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:58:04 +1300

I reall enjoy the people who twittered in the crowd in Napier during the test match with their little whiteboards – that's a clever use of the medium, by golly.

Joanna

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:00:42 +1300

"becomes"? I do not think you know what this word means...

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:33:53 +1300

My advice for people new to Twitter is to just create and account, follow some people you know, and just go with the flow. Soon enough you'll figure out how you're going to use Twitter (cos everyone has their own experience).

Also, I'm so over 34. I'm eagerly awaiting 35?

Robyn Gallagher

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:36:41 +1300

Which, by the way, I tweeted about last night.

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:36:48 +1300

Dive on in Damien... it's the only way. Twitter is 99% rubbish but the last 1% more than makes up for it. Real time news dissemination at its finest. You'll find out about big events sooner on Twitter than on traditional news sites...

I watched the US election results come?

Isabel Hitchings

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:01:58 +1300

I'm fairly sure that 35 is at least 10 years too young to be middle-aged. And I'm going to keep telling myself that.

Deborah

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:21:01 +1300

40.

40 is middle-aged. You have five years to go.

Disclosure: I'm 43.

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:25:33 +1300

I'm 40.

72 is middle aged.

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:37:58 +1300

And this Just To Hand (via Twitter, of course): TVNZ cracks down on social media use at work:

http://www.throng.co.nz/tvnz/tvnz-blocks-staff-use-facebook

How does one enlinken links on this here blog...

quote:
"As part of TVNZ?s response to the recession, restrictions are now being put on access to some social websites. Provision of?

Tony Kennedy

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:38:17 +1300

72 is the new twennies

Paul Brown

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:47:31 +1300

I'm 60, working 16hr days in Rio and starting to feel that perhaps middle age is coming earlier than expected. I did get off the station at Facebook too.

My father is 93 though, and into email and Skype.

Damian Christie

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:55:03 +1300

I guess the point is Paul, when you get to my age, I reckon another 15 minutes to get my news ain't gonna hurt me none ...

Peter Darlington

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:10:07 +1300

@twitter

Christie's on board guys, Twitter's officially dead.

simon g

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:17:59 +1300

Step away from the twitter, sir. Put it down now.

The death toll in the Victorian bushfires has today been revised from 210 to 173. You see, it's worth waiting a month for the news. Who needs more misery, faster, falser?

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:29:03 +1300

But I'm a news junkie! I want it now! I don't want to wait to know, I want to be the guy people say "how'd you know this stuff before everyone else?".

I love it. More, sooner, faster. Now now now.

You TV journo types... it's all about "we'll get?

giovanni tiso

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:44:36 +1300

I guess the point is Paul, when you get to my age, I reckon another 15 minutes to get my news ain't gonna hurt me none ...

Word. If the excitement of Twitter was finding out about cash rates movements 15 minutes before other people, that'd be seriously quite sad.

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:22:55 +1300

But that's only one part of it. Take the bush fire example – it's not that the initial news around the number of dead was wrong, it's that you can use Twitter to give you real time updates on where the fire is right now, as it turns.

But hey,?

Morgan Davie

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:31:49 +1300

Curse you mr christie. I just signed up to twitter thanks to this. It was your warning that I would one day be "mrg.an177775" if I didn't act now that did it.

I mean, i have an account on Hoffspace. i don't have any credibility left to lose.

Also, I?

Joanna

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:35:54 +1300

You're all missing the point. Twitter is awesome because if I didn't have internet on my phone, it would still let me update the internet via text message to tell the world how drunk I am at a particular point in time. That is all.

Morgan Davie

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:42:39 +1300

Except that was a fake christopher walken!
I just got double stuffed!

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:49:58 +1300

but you can chat with the real Stephen Fry... or the real Neil Gaiman... or the real, well just about any of them really.

Twitter is (I'll try not to overstate it too much) one of the best new tools for journalists available today. Up there with mobile phones, an?

Paul Brislen

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 16:55:16 +1300

and if real time isn't your thing, how about this photo:

http://twitpic.com/135xa

which is why Twitter works summed up in a frame.

Richard Irvine

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:00:39 +1300

The best Twitter explaination I've heard is 'CB radio for nerds'.

Or, this video should clear everything up.

Don Christie

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 17:03:31 +1300

I'd love twitter as a client. There is none of this 24*7 availability, 99.9999999999% uptime shit. They *know* the Internet is flaky and when the site needs a rest they stick up a pretty picture, and let it rest.

What could be more reasonable :-)

Sacha

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:51:51 +1300

why Twitter works summed up in a frame

Hard to argue with that – if I had a web-connected phone. Old styles, I know, but I'll get there. Was very impressed observing the twittering at #kiwifoo close up, and subsequently checked #webstock and #blackout with interest.

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:57:47 +1300

a good 15 minutes ahead

Wow 15 minutes! Just enough to be famous :)

Sacha

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:04:17 +1300

15 Minutes ahead? Insider trading moves to a new platform...

Sacha

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:05:50 +1300

And do I get points for knowing the difference between # and @ ?

I love how a certain generaton of tv presenters don't instinctively know that an email address never starts with "www".

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:16:09 +1300

Hash (#) an' at (at)? Hash init :) You get points man.

Sofie Bribiesca

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:18:57 +1300

Ok I'll just say Merry happy Damian and moving right along now.......

Heather W.

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:59:31 +1300

Now the twitterverse goes feral. Power blackout in Sydney and on Twitter there is much mention of the zombies.

linger

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:33:09 +1300

Gudday Damien--

As a belated birthday present: your life expectancy may be higher than you think.

NZ male life expectancy at birth is 77.9 (2006 census figures) and climbing (it was 76.3 in 2001). The figure for Maori is a shocking 8 years below that overall average, the figure for?

linger

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 21:35:51 +1300

(er, that last "life expectancy" should read "an expected total life span". But you knew what I meant, eh.)

Sacha

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:47:34 +1300

Must say Don Christie is taking the title of this post rather well, considering.. :)

linger

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:56:36 +1300

You seem to be assuming that a twat is inherently a Bad Thing.

Jeremy Eade

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:30:51 +1300

Dude, you have 15,000 days left.
what are you doing right now?

Damian Christie

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:05:18 +1300

See now I have people following me... expecting stuff... I'm just going to let them down, sooner or later.

Jackie Clark

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:06:09 +1300

DC. Please. Middleaged? Do not ever refer to 35 as middleaged again. I implore you. It's not fair to those of us who are not 35. Nor are we 40. Nor are we......you get the picture.

beksygirl

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:22:44 +1300

The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance. I'm still at stage 1.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyzyx/3224674072/

Paul Litterick

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:27:56 +1300

I love my friends. Many of them are good writers and excellent wits, who can say what they are doing right now in 140 characters or less with verve and charm. But I don't care.

Is it me? I don't think its my age. I get the Facebook, 4chan, that?

Damian Christie

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:33:04 +1300

The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance. I'm still at stage 1.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/skyzyx/3224674072/

Ha, yup that's me, number two...

Paul Litterick

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:36:12 +1300

The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance fixt

Paul Litterick

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:38:11 +1300

The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance was posted by someone who has made 7,159 uploads to Flickr. So who has issues?

Oh God, I'm microcommenting.

giovanni tiso

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:46:09 +1300

Rofflenui!

81stcolumn

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 12:55:35 +1300

Would the twitter equivalent of pwnd be twatted, twatd or Twtd ?

Emma Hart

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:10:11 +1300

I'm a stage five, I guess. I use Twitter for conversations, and I love the odd discipline of writing to the message length. The only problem I have with it is that it makes me wish I lived in Wellington even more than usual.

Megan Wegan

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:20:04 +1300

the only problem I have with it is that it makes me wish I lived in Wellington even more than usual.

Because your Welly twitter friends are so cool?

I ma having conversations, and wasting far too much of my time posting inanity.

But the original reason I signed up?

Emma Hart

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:31:14 +1300

Because your Welly twitter friends are so cool?

But of course, love.

Though to be fair my Welly non-Twitter friends are also so cool.

Also since I made those comments about the hunky wood-man I'm now being followed by an Angelean porn star. How cool is that?

Megan Wegan

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 13:35:52 +1300

How cool is that?

I am impressed. I do wonder how they found you, though. Exactly what do you search to come up with that sentence?

Paul Williams

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:20:44 +1300

The 5 stages of Twitter acceptance fixt

Liked that... in fact, even an equivocal endorsement from the PAS crew's enough to get me on board... I think I will!

Robyn Gallagher

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:07:17 +1300

Because your Welly twitter friends are so cool?

Twitter works so well with Wellington.

Srsly, all you need to do is plonk yourself down in front of the Bucket Fountain, tweet "Sitting by the Bucket Fountain. Who wants to drink with me?" and within seconds you'll have a posse*.

Paul Litterick

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:28:39 +1300

Or a bucket.

Damian Christie

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:41:31 +1300

Or a bucket.

Or most likely, a wet arse courtesy of the retarded fountain that's never worked like it should.

@Megan – It's the time and idea wasting that worries me. A bit like how various novellists I've spoken to (William Gibson being the biggest name drop I can think?

Russell Brown

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:30:59 +1300

It's the time and idea wasting that worries me. A bit like how various novellists I've spoken to (William Gibson being the biggest name drop I can think of) took up blogging and then gave it up because it was using up all of their novel-mojo.

And yet Neil Gaiman?

Russell Brown

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:34:29 +1300

@Emma

The only problem I have with it is that it makes me wish I lived in Wellington even more than usual

I'm sorry, but I need you to keep on Keeping Christchurch Weird.

Sacha

Tue, 31 Mar 2009 22:05:48 +1300

Exactly what do you search to come up with that sentence?

I suspect wood man might be enough..

JackElder

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:58:20 +1300

Twitter question: is there any way to update via SMS through a local gateway (i.e. without using the UK number)? Telstra have just told me that international txts are 20c each, which I could easily see cutting down on my usage.

Paul Brislen

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:12:11 +1300

Ahem... the date may be a giveaway but I do like this from the Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

Paul Brislen

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:13:39 +1300

@jack (sorry), currently there is no way to TXT your tweets for free but I can say that a certain large telco is in talks with Twitter about providing functionality in the near future.

Not that I can say anything formal at this point.

Other than what I have... oh,?

Emma Hart

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:36:25 +1300

I'm sorry, but I need you to keep on Keeping Christchurch Weird.

Boy do I have the column for you...

Ahem... the date may be a giveaway but I do like this from the Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/apr/01/guardian-twitter-media-technology

@paulbrislen LOL!

Kyle Matthews

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 13:57:38 +1300

That guardian article is great. Much better than the ODT's "plans to build a floating parking lot in Lake Wakatipu".

A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper's archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include "1832?

Lyndon Hood

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 14:55:07 +1300

John Key just tried to table a tweet he thought was from David Cunliffee. Apparently, it wasn't.

FletcherB

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:59:27 +1300

"I'm sorry, but I need you to keep on Keeping Christchurch Weird."

Hey- not fair.... being on the inside of an in-joke is one thing..... but referring to a post the day before it's posted? Thats just cruel.

Lyndon Hood

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:18:50 +1300

http://twitter.com/dcunliffemp

# I think they believed me
about 1 hour ago from web

http://twitter.com/dcunliffemp
# Had me fooled I am following the fake cunners!
28 minutes ago from web

Lyndon Hood

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:21:04 +1300

that second one should be http://twitter.com/ccosgrovemp

there also
philgoffmp
shanejonesmp
and I imagine
darrenhughesmp

Cunliffe says, twitter has been notified, it was done by a 'right-wing blogger'

Steve Barnes

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:24:59 +1300

But the original reason I signed up was that lots of the smart and interesting people I know were on it,

Now I need a Bucket.

Boy do I have the column for you...

Said the weekly opinion writer to the jounalist intern.
If your in too much of a?

Kyle Matthews

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 10:46:10 +1300

Cunliffe says, twitter has been notified, it was done by a 'right-wing blogger'

Who apparently should have told the PM before he ended up looking silly.

Sacha

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 16:51:48 +1300

TV news turn the story into Labour looking silly (with a certain odious blogger putting in an appearance towards the end of the brief clip).

Juha Saarinen

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 21:55:39 +1200

I made up Twitter as an elaborate Internet joke because I was so fed up with social media. I'm so sorry. Had no idea people would take it so seriously – thought the 140 characters was a dead giveaway that Twitter's too silly to bother with.

Now all of a?

Sacha

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:24:38 +1200

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BeLZCy-_m3s