Who is on Twitter?

[Sokurah]

Perhaps, for those who like to follow updates on Twitter too, we can have a thread with our usernames?
...I elect this thread to be it.

I'm @Sokurah.

[matchy]

@matchygames

[Wampus]

@livingmidnight, but we don't launch until next month!!

[Hark0]

@litiopixel

@thehark0

[Kitty Hello]

@glbasic

[Albert]

@dobosbence

[Hark0]

I suggest that such information is collected in the main thread like:

User: @twitter_account

[MrTAToad]

@FishyMcFlipFlop

[Ian Price]

@mrijprice

Registered specially. Never used Twitter before.

[Slydog]

@KodeSource

However, I've never posted to Twitter yet.

[MrTAToad]

Registered specially. Never used Twitter before.

You are in for a treat... or even a tweet...

[Wampus]

@mrijprice

Registered specially. Never used Twitter before.

Can't find this channel yet but will sign up when its available.

Signed up to the rest of ya.

[Slydog]

Just getting familiar with Twitter.   It seems to be just a giant message board or FaceBook status style site.
I thought tweets were only from the main account, and didn't know you could comment on other people's tweets.
(It appears you can, by checking out GLBasic's page for example)
[Edit] My bad, are those extra posts what they call 'retweets'?

I still don't know WHY Twitter is so popular.   Ha, I guess I just don't get the Twitter philosophy.
I'd prefer a blog format.  With comments.
But, it's expected these days for any company so I might as well get used to it.

What Twitter tools do you use?  Or do you work right from the main site? 
I just downloaded Echofon for Firefox and I'll see if that's any good.

[Sokurah]

@SlyDog

Yeah, it's basically "just" a system for Facebook-like status updates, but it's actually much different. Well, to me it is, anyway.

It took me VERY long time before I jumped on the Twitter-bandwagon - I hated it (without really knowing what it was about and how it could be used), but now I see the value.

I do have friends on Facebook that I also follow on Twitter, but I don't make many Facebook updates and on Facebook (for me) it's more "normal" friends than programmers.

That's why I use Twitter - that's where I follow all the gamedevelopers and can get updated in one place without having to check 50 websites - if the people I follow, have something to say they will make a tweet that they have updated their site and then I can check it.

I do the same - not everything I say "deserves" a full blogpost...sometimes it's enough to just fire off a few sentences and know that the people you'd like to read it, will. And then you only post on your site when you have something worth of a "real" update and then you keep your real site clutter-free at the same time.

And it's genious for just asking random questions if you're in doubt about something. Just ask and you'll probably have an answer in a few minutes - often seconds. It's great. Often it's like having a conversation because you're able to easily shoot questions, answers and comments off in a matter of seconds. ...and even more brilliant for just ranting about something...and as this is the Internet you'll never run out of things to rant about.

Personally I prefer to use a standalone client compared to a browserplugin, because I want it to be independent of my browser so I can open and close them and not affect anything else. I use TweetDeck on both my phone and my computers.

[Moru]

And for any company hiring new people it's a goldmine to sort out those idiots from the paylist before they even show up there :-)

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