Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Supriya Nair
I'm curious to know if most Twitterers on this list use it via their phone. Do desktop[/etc.] users use it as a substitute for Facebook/blogging, or is it complementary to those experiences? I would use my own Twitter account a lot more if I were a mobile Internet user, I feel - its functions

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Priyanka Sachar
I use it on the phone off and on but thru GPRS And not sms. most of my usage is through the web and through a tool called twhirl. 2009/3/17 Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.com I'm curious to know if most Twitterers on this list use it via their phone. Do desktop[/etc.] users use it as a

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote: I use it over the web mostly. Twittering kills blogging, hogs time and is addictive. Also extremely noisy nowadays :(. On the plus side, it's a good way to get real-time answers from friends and a good filtering

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Balaji Dutt
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.comwrote: I'm curious to know if most Twitterers on this list use it via their phone. Do desktop[/etc.] users use it as a substitute for Facebook/blogging, or is it complementary to those experiences? I would use my own Twitter

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Supriya Nair supriya.n...@gmail.com wrote: I'm curious to know if most Twitterers on this list use it via their phone. Do desktop[/etc.] users use it as a substitute for Facebook/blogging, or is it complementary to those experiences? I would use my own Twitter

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
I've used Twitter through SMS, GPRS, instant message (while it worked), the Web interface and a variety of AIR apps and browser extensions. It's always on, along with my Gmail and work email, and I manage to keep an eye on it without losing too much time. I love the fact that I can use Twitter on

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.comwrote: On the subject of blogging, it is quite easy to toss out a tweet with a link and be done, but it also lets you think a bit more about what you're blogging. Oh, and it doesn't hurt as a publicity tool for your blog,

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Divya Manian
On 3/17/09 10:28 AM, Priyanka Sachar priyan...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/3/17 Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com Twitter is perfect if you want quick conversations and instant answers to questions. It is less of a blogging medium for me than, say, flickr is. Twitter

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Divya Manian divya.man...@gmail.com wrote: I am now attempting an experiment with a private twitter account - where I follow and get followed only by people I know. I can be more free here, but the bottom line is twitter now owns my thought - which seems scary

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:43 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I stopped reading twitter and tweeting over the weekend when I noticed I stop reading silk, twitter and just about everything else for some weeks, and then begin again. When I have work to do these things are evil. Cheeni

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Vinayak Hegde
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: Oh yes! Every time I link my blog on twitter, my visits go up about 150-180 uniques. Agreed on this part. I look at twitter as an extended IM. I've got it to update my Fb status and my friendfeed,

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Tue, 17/3/09, Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com wrote: From: Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan chandrachoo...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Twitter users To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 17 March, 2009, 10:55 PM On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 7:26 PM, Sumant

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: [...] Have you looked at the time, you and the next six? Owls! Owls, yes, but not all of us are in India.

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Have you looked at the time, you and the next six? Owls! In my case, a rooster that's just morphed into an owl. Been up since 4:48 AM today. C

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Sumant Srivathsan
I stopped reading twitter and tweeting over the weekend when I noticed that I was spending a non trivial amount (around 30 minutes) of my day reading my friends' twitter stream or tweeting. I'm rarely online over the weekend, except for the obligatory email checking. Any soc-net activity

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Tue, 17/3/09, Srini Ramakrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote: From: Srini Ramakrishnan che...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Twitter users To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Tuesday, 17 March, 2009, 11:19 PM On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 6:48 PM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-17 Thread Divya Manian
On 3/17/09 10:53 AM, Bonobashi bonoba...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hmmm. So are the Indian posters keeping this activity as one of the last things at night? Presumably the Amriki and other ones are doing the same. I check in whenever I am in between tasks at work.

[silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Anish Mohammed
hi all, I was wondering if there was an easy way of finding if someone from the mailing list is on twitter :-). regards Anish

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Anish Mohammed anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote: hi all,  I was wondering if there was an easy way of finding if someone from the mailing list is on twitter :-). The easy way would not be to post usernames here on this thread, please. Cheeni

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Anish Mohammed
:-) On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Srini Ramakrishnan che...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Anish Mohammed anish.moham...@gmail.com wrote: hi all, I was wondering if there was an easy way of finding if someone from the mailing list is on twitter :-). The easy way

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
I was wondering if there was an easy way of finding if someone from the mailing list is on twitter :-). I see you're using gmail and there is a setting which gets every email address you mail or get mail from automatically added to your contacts list. So after maybe a month after this

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Anish Mohammed
mm, shall give that a go On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if there was an easy way of finding if someone from the mailing list is on twitter :-). I see you're using gmail and there is a setting which gets every

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Tim Bray
Be warned... Twitter is quite addictive and time-consuming. But you'll be better-informed. -Tim (timbray on Twitter)

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Priyanka Sachar
the beauty is that one can use it the way they want - as a chat tool, as a resource, as a marketing gimmick, as a friend finder, as a search engine or just abt anything :) http://twitter.com/twilightfairy 2009/3/16 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com Be warned... Twitter is quite addictive and

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Bonobashi
--- On Mon, 16/3/09, Priyanka Sachar priyan...@gmail.com wrote: From: Priyanka Sachar priyan...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [silk] Twitter users To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Date: Monday, 16 March, 2009, 11:21 PM the beauty is that one can use it the way they want - as a chat tool

Re: [silk] Twitter users

2009-03-16 Thread Charles Haynes
http://twitter.com/charleshaynes http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=694789103 http://flickr.com/photos/haynes