Due to this …
I can’t do this ..
And so ….
I turn to this outdated medium called blogging. Kind of like the telephone: - used to call mama cos she won’t get a twitter account despite my best efforts.
Today’s title was chosen in deference to @cv who detests the use of the term µblogging to describe tweets*.
* tweets are twitter update messages.
One of my favorite ‘tweets’ - http://twitter.com/philcrissman/statuses/320937682
“does habitually having 50+ tabs open in Firefox mean I have: ADD, high information consumption, or a severe procrastination disorder…?”
-Phil Crissman
I have 3 browsers (Safari, Camino and Firefox) always open with multiple wondows and multiple tabs open on each of them. Every time my session crashes - I weep!
WHAT?
I ‘d like to be able to update my favourite tweets(sic) on the go.
WHY ?
I use twitter primarily on my mobile phone. So when my friends say funny or insightful things, I tend to store it up until my inbox gets really really full and prevents more tweets from arriving. This is of course very bad. I am an addict, and it’s called a fix for a reason.
While I can save my favourites on twitter.com, this feature is currently unavailable on the go.
HOW
add fav to the list of shortcodes twitter understand. like help, get, whois, on, off, follow, nudge, d
usage: fav $username
this should mean - add this user’s latest post to my favourites.
There has been a lot of requests on mailing lists, twitter and the blogo-ball place for joost invites.
You can now send yourself an invite from here https://joost.com/presents/gigaom-newteevee/
Help spread the word.
what
A service which allows you to inform twitter when you publish a new earth shattering piece of work on your blog, not unlike this one you are reading.
how
Most blogging tools allow you to add ping servers to your blog. When you write a new blog article, the ping servers are automatically informed and they send out their merry little bots to check it out. What happens after this is hazy, but I have been told there’s cheese, a mice and a chap called Jerome involved. I get very confused at this point as I can’t stand cheese.
In this particular case however, cheese be damned, my little bot goes off to twitter and reports that it’s found a new article fresh off the press/printing block/cesspit (This varies depending on the quality of your writing - in my case, usually the latter I fear).
why
Twitter is a way for ne’r do wells like yours truly to kill time at UK bus stops. Why should this have a reason?
Here, I ‘ll give you one.
You know who this guy: (Mike Arrington)is and this girl: (Abby Lee) and probably him: (Steve Yegge) too, almost definitely this one: (Tim Bray), but I bet you have no idea who this one is. Only kidding, I meant him. I ‘ll assume you also use Twitter, if you don’t then what on earth are you doing reading this epistle? Go away, run as fast as your legs can lift you. For those of you who do, then following http://twitter.com/bl_og means that when our unknown friend above finally writes his Magnum Opus, you will be one of the first people to read it. Hot cakes I believe they are called.
In English:
Bring more readers to your brilliant blog with minimal effort on your part.
alright! enough hype, let me in
Steps:
this is a post to test http://ekanem.de/twitter/ping/
humans please ignore! robots, do your thing.
My flatmate Su directed me to this video this morning.
This afternoon I made some http://jyte.com claims about it, here
and
and twittered about it here
