November 8, 2006 10 Comments

Stalk Me Easier with Twitter

If your email address is in my gmail account, you probably received an invite to join Twitter. What is it?

Twitter’s what I call a “ping” service. It lets you send status to friends via a central location, and then the status goes out to people’s phones via SMS, if they’ve configured that option. So, if I update Twitter to say I’m at my desk working, it will dump that update on the website, and then SMS text anyone’s phone in my friends list with the info.

If you want to see my status, there are a few ways to do it:

So yep, if you want to stalk me, or rather, keep track of my days, that’s how. (And yes, I’ve heard of Dodgeball, but I really like the interface and options of Twitter more. Plus, I really like Evan and Biz and the gang at Obvious).

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  • http://www.graemewatson.blogspot.com Graeme Watson

    Okay, maybe it’s because I am here on the edge of the earth on the sparsly populated Western Edge of Australia, and I do acknowledge that Australia is traditionally three years behind the rest of the world, and yes our current governments campaign to make it just like 1952 is progessing well…. but…

    Why do we have an obsession with being always available, always contactable and always accountable?

    I recently caught up with a good friend who lives on the other side of the world in London, but it turns out we had nothing much to catch up on, she’s a prolific mo-blogger, constant images from her mobile online detailing her life are on her blog. She had no news to share – we’d read it all.

    If I don’t answer the phone in my office, the Receptionist walks across the Institute to ask if my phone is OK. Maybe I just didn’t want to answer it. Is it still OK in society to not answer?

    Why do people call me on the telephone to ask if I got their email?

    How can I switch to my alter identity as a SuperHero if people always need to know exactly where I am?

    So, really what I’m saying is ‘Twitter’ arrgh! urgh it sounds horrible.

    Although, as it is 11:38pm and I’m drinking a glass of red wine and listening to a Beck CD, I do feel remorse for Chris sitting at his desk at work. See there is caring in this techno world.

  • http://www.graemewatson.blogspot.com Graeme Watson

    Okay, maybe it’s because I am here on the edge of the earth on the sparsly populated Western Edge of Australia, and I do acknowledge that Australia is traditionally three years behind the rest of the world, and yes our current governments campaign to make it just like 1952 is progessing well…. but…

    Why do we have an obsession with being always available, always contactable and always accountable?

    I recently caught up with a good friend who lives on the other side of the world in London, but it turns out we had nothing much to catch up on, she’s a prolific mo-blogger, constant images from her mobile online detailing her life are on her blog. She had no news to share – we’d read it all.

    If I don’t answer the phone in my office, the Receptionist walks across the Institute to ask if my phone is OK. Maybe I just didn’t want to answer it. Is it still OK in society to not answer?

    Why do people call me on the telephone to ask if I got their email?

    How can I switch to my alter identity as a SuperHero if people always need to know exactly where I am?

    So, really what I’m saying is ‘Twitter’ arrgh! urgh it sounds horrible.

    Although, as it is 11:38pm and I’m drinking a glass of red wine and listening to a Beck CD, I do feel remorse for Chris sitting at his desk at work. See there is caring in this techno world.

  • http://www.Bryper.com Bryan Person, Bryper.com

    Graeme, I guess some folks just need to be contactable — or think they need to be — all the time.

    I don’t think Chris is necessarily that kind of person.

    But hey, Chris: no offense, but I absolutely don’t want SMSes all day long telling me “Chris is at his desk,” “Chris is blogging,” “Chris is in the loo,” “Chris is changing his baby’s diaper.” A little too much info for my taste.

    I might want to know if you’re available for an IM, though, but that’s what Skype, AIM, and those programs are for.

  • http://www.Bryper.com Bryan Person, Bryper.com

    Graeme, I guess some folks just need to be contactable — or think they need to be — all the time.

    I don’t think Chris is necessarily that kind of person.

    But hey, Chris: no offense, but I absolutely don’t want SMSes all day long telling me “Chris is at his desk,” “Chris is blogging,” “Chris is in the loo,” “Chris is changing his baby’s diaper.” A little too much info for my taste.

    I might want to know if you’re available for an IM, though, but that’s what Skype, AIM, and those programs are for.

  • http://linkedin.com/in/danieljohnsonjr Daniel Johnson, Jr.

    I like Ev, Biz, Crystal, and the rest of the Obvious crew, too.

  • http://linkedin.com/in/danieljohnsonjr Daniel Johnson, Jr.

    I like Ev, Biz, Crystal, and the rest of the Obvious crew, too.

  • http://www.Bryper.com Bryan Person, Bryper.com

    This is the blogging long tail in action! Nice to know, too, that Daniel Johnson is reading my Tweets.

  • http://www.Bryper.com Bryan Person, Bryper.com

    This is the blogging long tail in action! Nice to know, too, that Daniel Johnson is reading my Tweets.

  • http://www.chrishambly.com Chris Hambly

    OK so now I want more, I want to know your neuron activity right from your matrix as the current sparks.

  • http://www.chrishambly.com Chris Hambly

    OK so now I want more, I want to know your neuron activity right from your matrix as the current sparks.