Cracker: In Which DC Becomes a Twat
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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.
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"becomes"? I do not think you know what this word means...
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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 so I can amp up my twatmanship.
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Which, by the way, I tweeted about last night.
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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 in on my PC (work time, y'know). Three tabs open - BBC, CNN and Twitter. I would see a result posted on Twitter (a re-tweet of a re-tweet from someone close to the action) and would wait to confirm it (and it always was confirmed) some time later on CNN (BBC was for the international flavour and the historical stuff which it did exceptionally well).
These days I find out about stuff first on Twitter by a long chalk. Even obvious stuff like the Reserve Bank dropping interest rates - it's a good 15 minutes ahead of the news sites.
Plus you meet a nicer class of people.
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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.
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40.
40 is middle-aged. You have five years to go.
Disclosure: I'm 43.
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I'm 40.
72 is middle aged.
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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 bandwidth is an increasing cost to the company and high volume usage on social networking websites impacts on our bandwidth availability for core business activities i.e. the consumer experience on tvnz.co.nz and ondemand. The restrictions will be active from Wednesday March 18th and will apply between the hours of 9am and 5pm, Monday to Friday. Outside of these hours, please use your judgement on appropriate personal use.The websites that will be blocked are: Facebook, Bebo, Ebay, Zillion, Trademe, Gumtree."
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72 is the new twennies
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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.
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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 ...
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@twitter
Christie's on board guys, Twitter's officially dead.
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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?
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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 to it when we're good and ready". It's not news if someone else has already told me.
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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.
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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, it's not for everyone. Believe me, I didn't want to get involved in the first place but having been dragged into it I can see its value both as a support mechanism and as an information dissemination channel, one that operates far faster than any other medium around today.
And given its growth rate, I'd say there's plenty of interest in getting information now rather than in fifteen minutes (or an hour, or six hours, or not at all).
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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 now get to follow Christopher Walken.
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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.
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Except that was a fake christopher walken!
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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 ability to remember details while drunk and an expense account.
Have a look at:
http://www.journalism.co.uk/7/articles/531439.php
for some examples.
I'm constantly surprised by what I can learn from reading Twitter and by how quickly what I write gets passed around.
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and if real time isn't your thing, how about this photo:
which is why Twitter works summed up in a frame.
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The best Twitter explaination I've heard is 'CB radio for nerds'.
Or, this video should clear everything up.
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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 :-)
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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.
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