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July 7th, 2009 at 04:53 am

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I'm not into using Twitter for a lot of stuff - I'm a newbie on a cell phone and I can't afford unlimited text messaging - but I found that both the Seattle Police Department and Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) twitter. Turns out that my neighborhood is a hotbed of crime - one of our neighborhood banks (rhymes with yank of chimerica) was robbed several times last month.

At least the next time bus transit breaks down due to a shooting or snow, I'll be ready.

Time to monitor how quickly the minutes disappear and plan accordingly.

Posted in The Neighborhood | 5 Comments »

5 Responses to “using twitter”

  1. Broken Arrow Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 08:16 am 1246954590
    1246954590

    Twitter baffles me. I can't imagine using it myself, I can't imagine why anyone would want to use it... not really. Because, technologically, it's not something that can't be implemented into any other type of blogs? In fact, I remember seeing a Live Journal app for the Palm from back in the day that could have done basically the same thing....

    And then, once in a while, you find oddly amusing tweets.... Big Grin So, I guess people are what makes Twitter interesting, not Twitter itself? Just thinking out loud anyways.

  2. milehighgal Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 04:23 pm 1246983821
    1246983821

    I signed up for twitter back when it was taking off, and haven't really used it since. It's just too much of a time waster. You can add twitter widgets to your blog or even facebook, so it can serve as a quick update. Also turns out for all the talk of how quick they are growing (thanks Oprah) most people, something like 80% of all new users, abandon it within the 1st week of using it.

  3. baselle Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 05:54 pm 1246989286
    1246989286

    BA/milehighgal - I'm not using Twitter for the people, and I don't plan to send "tweets" (how cutesy is that, ick) myself. Heck I could ask "What are you doing?" to anyone walking down the street and probably get a better answer Big Grin.

    I'm using it more for situations like "why are the buses all stalled downtown?" I'm treating it like CB radio back in the day. Big Grin

  4. whitestripe Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 10:09 pm 1247004544
    1247004544

    i did exactly what milehighgal said - abandoned it within the first week. i joined it before anyone i knew, knew what it was - maybe that's why i thought it was crap, because no one i knew was on there. but i hate having so many things to log onto. i only use facebook and saving advice. i have other blogs and a myspace account, and a twitter account obviously, but they dont get logged into that often.

  5. frugaltexan75 Says:
    July 8th, 2009 at 02:12 am 1247019145
    1247019145

    The only thing I use twitter for is the twitterfeeds for my blogs. I have made a few "tweets" by signing in online, and am following a few people, but I don't even remember the last time I actually signed on and read anything.

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