[MOPO] MOPO : TWITTER?

2009-07-17 Thread joel katte
It seems every time I turn the news on or pick up a paper, a story is linked to Twitter.   Just out of curiousity, do any of you use Twitter to connect with movie poster collectors and movie enthusiasts who you could introduce to the hobby? Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site

Re: [MOPO] MOPO : TWITTER?

2009-07-17 Thread Richard Halegua Comic Art
I thought twittering was what goes on at the Manhole Bar Grill At 10:55 AM 7/17/2009, joel katte wrote: It seems every time I turn the news on or pick up a paper, a story is linked to Twitter. Just out of curiousity, do any of you use Twitter to connect with movie poster collectors and

Re: [MOPO] MOPO : TWITTER?

2009-07-17 Thread James Richard
Twitter was created for kids as a variation on a gigantic chat room. The reason you now see everything linked to twitter is that the mass media quickly picked up on this idea (promoted by the twitter creators) that it would make a great online billboard and so they began pushing it as

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2009-07-17 Thread Jeff Potokar
the weird thing with Twitter, too, i am finding... i get notices from them (as all do) when someone starts to follow you... but the weird thing is this: i have gotten a number of these notices regarding people following me that I DONT EVEN KNOW!! lol.. why would a stranger choose to follow

Re: [MOPO] MOPO : TWITTER?

2009-07-17 Thread Jeff Potokar
, 2009 3:22 PM To: MoPo-L@LISTSERV.AMERICAN.EDU Subject: Re: [MOPO] MOPO : TWITTER? the weird thing with Twitter, too, i am finding... i get notices from them (as all do) when someone starts to follow you... but the weird thing is this: i have gotten a number of these notices regarding people

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2009-07-17 Thread James Richard
Jeff, They are spammers. The automated spam robots go out and harvest new tweets and then start supposedly following them, but what they are waiting for is for you to publish a valid email address in one of your tweets -- at which point they will send spam to that address. Oops. By replying

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2009-07-17 Thread jbirddouglass
When I lived on Sutter St in San Francisco, I was in close proximity to not only the Manhole, but also the Cockpit and the (ahem) White Swallow Bar. You can't make this stuff up. I don't Twitter. Facebook works great for me; hey, I've gotten work out of it! It also allows me to get absolutely