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Do you have a Twitter account ?
Do you use your Twitter account for business and or personal use?

I have been using Twitter for a while now and I find that using it as a tool to keep up with the constantly changing tech environment can be helpful. Now choosing the right people to follow on Twitter can be a little challenging so I thought I would help by placing the Top 10 people that I follow on Twitter , if you tweet and follow others on twitter then please feel free to update this list. I would like to know who you follow on Twitter .

Veronica Belmont (Host of TekZilla)

Lance Ulanoff (Editor in Chief PC Mag)

Charlene Li (Leader in Emerging Technologies)

Bill Detwiler (Tech Republic Blogger)

Michael Singer (Information Week Editor)

Rob Enderle (IT Analyst)

Padmasree Warrior (CTO of Cisco)

Dave Zatz (Power Blogger)

Kevin Rose (Founder of Digg.com)

Michael Arrington ( Co Editor of TechCrunch)

20 Spice ups
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I Tweet…CraigM25

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I just Tweeted and it smells real bad.

…wait i mean…

DERAIL!!!

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I had a twitter account before it was cool back in Novemeber 2006 :slight_smile:

akp982

Never got into it and only have 3 posts but shhh… i have one

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I try to tweet everyday. I have it linked to my Facebook, so only one status update needed.

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Ive checked out twitter, seriously about twice. I know people who update their facebook status every 30 minutes it seems like.

I dont care if youre in the shower.

Am i an internet outcast if i dont do social networking websites? :[

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Hi, my name is Joe Jarvis and I’m a tweeter… mostly for personal use. I use ping.fm and it updates my twitter, facebook, plurk, myspace, linkedin, brightkite, and friendfeed :slight_smile: my twitter username is @josephjarvis I also use it for my church @liveministries where I post updates to our website and events going on etc.

the most useful people I follow are:

@spiceworks of course :wink:

@TechCrunch - TechCrunch articles

@thurrott - latest news on all things microsoft

@kevinrose

@veronica

@leolaporte - Cheif TWiT

the dells ( @DellSmBizOffers , @DellHomeOffers , @DellOutlet )

@frugal_it - usually has good posts on cheap IT stuff.

@MrTweet - if you follow Mr. Tweet it will analyze who you follow and make suggestions on who you may be interested in following.

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I don’t use Twitter because I think it’s contributing to the breakdown of meaningful communication in society. I also don’t feel that my life is important enough to update everyone about where I am and what I am doing every 20-30 minutes of every day. If someone is interested in catching up on what I am up to I would much rather sit down over a beer and have a real conversation.

I’ll use an example from my own life. I have a cousin who is on Facebook. She was updating her status on Facebook every 20 minutes. It got to the point where I cared nothing about what she was saying because it was all meaningless drivel. I eventually just started ignoring her updates because nothing she said was important, interesting, or valid. The last Facebook update I saw from her before ignoring them was "I’m on Twitter, are you?

I miss the days when people would talk about stuff that was meaningful and engage each other in meaningful conversation instead of announcing the fact they had pancakes for breakfast to the world, presumabley while their entire family sits around the table reading each others Twitter feeds.

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I’ve thought about getting an account for myself but decided not to when Twitter jumped the shark by having all the major news broadcasters, tv shows, even the president get an account.

I agree with Grimby, we’re going to get to the point when the only form of communication is electronic…

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i don’t disagree with you guys i just think it depends on personalitly. Like I think i would rather read about how and what eveyrone is doing rather than sit down and talk with them. Plus I get keep up to speed with bleeding edge technology updates B-)

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I think Twitter as a platform for stuff like technology and new updates isn’t a bad idea. I just find it depressing when it’s considered a form of social interaction.

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joejarvis already pointed us out but you can follow Spiceworks on Twitter for the latest & greatest in Spiceworks news, product features & releases, team insights and interesting IT news.

@Grimby I do agree with you, I think that often times people (including myself, I’m guilty) update twitter with general nonsense but I enjoy following companies and news sources because you can find out what’s going on real-time. You can track trends and find out what’s on the average persons mind. I think it really depends how you use Twitter and who you follow.

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I have tried to dig twitter on multiple occassions. Finally decided it just isn’t my thing so, while I have an account, I never update it and never look at it. I feel sorry for the people that, long ago, decided to follow me. If they are expecting updates, they are are sorely disappointed.

And I think it is only a matter of time before twitter falls off the radar. It is just so limiting and narcissistic. And, as has been pointed out, it has become yet another marketing tool. I signed up to follow a local ISP I deal with because they would send out updates about outages and network status. It has turned into a series of twits about what their advertising reps are doing in the community. Useless to me.

What I fear is that a new service will come along that will take the interwebs by storm but limit the posts to 25 characters or something. And everyone will sign up. And it will be annoying as hell.

I would prefer a site that forced people to communicate via haiku. At least that would take some imagination and thought.

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donges wrote:

I would prefer a site that forced people to communicate via haiku. At least that would take some imagination and thought.

This is an awesome idea. Perhaps a site that forces you to communicate via pictograms?

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I did give Twitter a try. Not unlike others in this forum, I didn’t find my “tweets” to be as interesting and thought provoking as a real conversation, nor that of others. I still have my twitter account, but I don’t use it or find it useful. I think 4 people were following me.

Part of why I believe Twitter has become quite the phenomenon that it has is that it puts a uber-simple broadcasting tool in your hands. Most of us grew up in an age where only a small handfull of professionals could broadcast using very complex and expensive means.

Many people (kids in particular) seem to have a fascination with the ability to broadcast. It puts power in their hands. It gives them the ability to tell everyone without all the work.

I can only hope that the developmental and entitlement issues I am seeing with children today don’t get worse. I do feel that Twitter, Facebook and MySpace are directly contributing to these problems. It’s unfortunate. Innovation and progress is rarely perfect.

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I don’t use Twitter and fought anyone and everyone when people wanted me to join Facebook (which I finally did.)

My philosophy is that social networking sites are like dance clubs. Everyone and their mother is on them for a few years…then something better comes along and they fade away.

I don’t hear anyone talking about MySpace anymore…even though it’s still out there and people are using it.

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I do not Tweet, Facebook, MySpace, or any other such thing…

Assembly language only please…

I would rather:

A 100
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RAX
RBX
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F 200 L 200 0
RCX
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RDX
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No sir, I do not Tweet, I have never tweeted, I may never tweet.

I have two jobs that require significant time in front of a computer (Systems Engineer and Adjunct Faculty for an online program). I tend to not do much social networking as I relax away from the computer.

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Justin.Davison wrote:

I relax away from the computer.

What?!? It is possible to relax AWAY from the computer?

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+1 Grimby!

I don’t twit and have no plans to sign up. I don’t see any value to it. I agree with the comments on today’s generation having a feeling of entitlement along with the empowerment from being able to broadcast… it’s one thing to share, it’s another to share something worth sharing.

The sad thing is that something like this service makes sense for some type of information (Weather bulletins?) but is completely overloaded with (imho) useless/annoying information (marketing, just visited the loo, etc.). Wait… couldn’t email just do that?

Perhaps newer generations have a different signal to noise ratio than older ones? I’ll bet that’s an interesting graph… now where to find data… :wink: