I'm now on Twitter. I'd previously been reluctant to join for the exact same reason my dad and sister quoted back at me this lunchtime - why would anyone care what I'm doing? But of course, that's not what it's really about.
As a web designer, I obviously need to keep my skills up to date and even in the short time I've been using Twitter I've learned some useful stuff by following people like Hicksdesign, Molly Holzschlag, Ryan Carson and Paul Boag. These are all people whose sites I've read in the past but of course remembering to check them regularly is the hard bit. Twitter helps becase you're receiving links to content in near-realtime direct from the authors.
I've spent a bit of time looking for a decent app to tweet (submit entries) with and the best I've come across so far is Twitterific. I had been playing with TwitterAdium to get my Adium status updated automatically, but I just discovered Twitterific will do it for me. As TwitterAdium checked my status every 2 minutes, the combination of Twitterific and it quickly ate through my API allowance. I also had a look at a few Dashboard widgets, but they were all of a fixed (and rather small) size, meaning I couldn't see more than one or two tweets at a time.
Texting to update my twitter status is definitely out as T-Mobile charge 20p a text message. Apparently, it's an Isle of Man number, which while looking exactly like a normal UK mobile number, gets counted by T-Mobile as an international call and therefore is not included in my Flext allowance. Sneaky bastards.
[ Entry posted at: Tue 20 Jan 2009 01:28:46 UTC | 0 comment(s)... | Cat: Geeky ]