I have lately become obsessed with Twitter- a site that lets you update what you’re doing so that everyone knows, and also lets you follow around what other people are doing.
I first heard about it on TWIT (this week in tech), a podcast with Leo Leporte, but that was ages ago (when it was the new ‘thing’, and I never did anything about it. I then read about it again on Jim Whimpey’s blog, and decided that I would at least sign up with an account- just to see what it’s like.
Twitter is a fair bit of fun if you have friends who are on it, and it is made even better by the fact that you can set it up to get a text every time one of your friends post, and also send via text message for just the cost of a regular text (that might just be my plan though, so don’t think that’s for everyone).
I was a little disappointed when I realised that there wasn’t a decent ‘twiteriffic’ type program for linux, but then I found twitbin- a firefox plug in.
Twitbin has been really great for me, I keep it opened most of the time I’m on the internet, and it comes up like a miniature version of the twitter site.
I have had a few problems with Twitbin today, but yesterday was fine. I find that sometimes Twitter has problems actually, and this slows, and sometimes wrecks my twitbin, txt notifications, and even my notifications on twitter.com.
I think that twitbin is great for me- it isn’t obtrusive, and it makes it a hell of a lot easier to post, just type it in and press enter. Txting is a great option as well- if your phone company allows it.
