Who's on Twitter?

[Kiara]

<p><strong>How to Use Twitter</strong></p> <p>Have you heard about Twitter yet? Are you using it? Twitter is a "micro-blogging" utility that allows you to send and recieve short notes, links, and, well...anything you want to share with your friends and the world! Here at SOE we use Twitter to send out news updates about our games, occasional company news, and to keep in touch with you...our players!</p> <p><a href="http://eq2players.station.sony.com/news_archive_content.vm?id=3098&section=News&locale=en_US"><strong>Read more!</strong></a></p>

[Spyderbite]

<p>If you don't Twitter.. try it. Its worth it just to hear Brenlo's daily car pool commentaries alone. Trust me. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p><a href="http://twitter.com/spyderbite" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/spyderbite</a></p>

[Kiara]

<p>Dude... that was NOT my driving the other day.</p><p>It was the road rage guy who weaved in and out of traffic for TWO MILES to flip us off <strong><em>after</em></strong> he cut me off and I honked at him cause it was at 80 miles an hour and he scared the bejeesus out of me!</p>

[Spyderbite]

<p><cite>Kiara wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Dude... that was NOT my driving the other day.</p><p>It was the road rage guy who weaved in and out of traffic for TWO MILES to flip us off <strong><em>after</em></strong> he cut me off and I honked at him cause it was at 80 miles an hour and he scared the bejeesus out of me!</p></blockquote><p>Case in point. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Kalliand]

<p>Signed up for twitter yesterday, following kiara, brenlo, and everquestii</p>

[Obann]

<p>I refuse to join the mass conspiracy! </p><p>It's either that or I'd just be too lazy to keep up with it.</p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>Obann@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I refuse to join the mass conspiracy! </p></blockquote><p>They even got me, and I'm allergic to social networking sites.</p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p>I signed up, but don't like how they had the nerve to ask me for the password I use to check my e-mail.  </p>

[Spyderbite]

<p>Don't forget <a href="http://twitter.com/EQ2ZAM" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/EQ2ZAM</a> to keep up with the latest happenings over on the EQ2 ZAM site. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Spyderbite]

<p><cite>Crabbok@The Bazaar wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I signed up, but don't like how they had the nerve to ask me for the password I use to check my e-mail.  </p></blockquote><p>That's optional.. its for checking your Google/Yahoo contact list for other people already on Twitter. Its not mandatory. I never used it.</p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p>Yeah I didn't use it either, and I certainly don't trust ANY website that asks for it. </p>

[Gaftep]

<p>I thought I would hate it, but the plus side is you dont get 100 app invites an hour like on FB or My.</p><p><strong><a href="http://twitter.com/g0dless420" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/g0dless420</a></strong></p>

[KerowynnKaotic]

<p><cite>Calthine wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Obann@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I refuse to join the mass conspiracy! </p></blockquote><p>They even got me, and I'm allergic to social networking sites.</p></blockquote><p>I just don't understand these social things. ..I've tried im, ms, myspace, can't stand IRC, blogging in general and looked at facebook .. they just overwhelm me. </p><p>For me it's enough to just read & occassionally reply in the forum.</p>

[Spyderbite]

<p><cite>Kaisha@Permafrost wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I just don't understand these social things. ..I've tried im, ms, myspace, can't stand IRC, blogging in general and looked at facebook .. they just overwhelm me.</p></blockquote><p>That's the appeal of Twitter.. its like an online txt msging service.. 160 char max.. no apps or pop ups.. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Zabjade]

<p><span style="color: #00cc00;">I don't Twitter, Facebook, no way.  I barely update my Deviant Art Journal. </span></p>

[MrWolfie]

<p><cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #00cc00;">I don't Twitter, Facebook, no way.  I barely update my Deviant Art Journal. </span></p></blockquote><p>Barely? That's bordering on obsessive where I come from.</p>

[Yimway]

<p>I follow a few people / companies / services that I have interest in, but I don't ever 'tweet'. </p>

[feldon30]

<p><cite>Kaisha@Permafrost wrote:</cite><cite></cite></p><blockquote><p>I just don't understand these social things. ..I've tried im, ms, myspace, can't stand IRC, blogging in general and looked at facebook .. they just overwhelm me. </p><p>For me it's enough to just read & occassionally reply in the forum.</p></blockquote><p>I started on IRC. But I type 75wpm so that might be part of why I like it. I like the rapid form conversations. But I understand they do not really encourage long form discussions of topics. It's all quips and brief comments. Any time I start posting anything longer than 3 lines, folks eyes glaze over.</p><p>I cannot imagine doing my job without IM. I can communicate with 4-5 people simultaneously without any of them feeling I am neglecting them.</p><p>I like forums too, but like any of these other communication systems, the signal-to-noise ratio is quite low. Whenever I see a gem of information posted here on the EQ2 forums on a subject I feel my readers are interested in, I quote and link it from my blog. A blog can be used as a filter, as a highlight of certain posts or the best posts. Look at a thread like Research Assistants. It's on the order of 90 pages and then the topic that spawned from it is another 40 pages. It's just too much to expect most folks to read that. So a blog can cherry-pick the best, most poignant, on-topic comments and shine a light on them.</p><p>I don't see any point in MySpace. It seems to be just a bunch of profile pages with no communication between them other than links. It doesn't give me anything that a full-featured Profile page on a forum can give me. If this forum were using vBulletin, then we would have that option.</p><p>As for Twitter, I can't confine my thoughts to 140 characters. Also following replies on Twitter is a complete nightmare.</p>

[Mathafern]

<p><cite>feldon30 wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p> Whenever I see a gem of information posted here on the EQ2 forums on a subject I feel my readers are interested in, I quote and link it from my blog. A blog can be used as a filter, as a highlight of certain posts or the best posts. Look at a thread like Research Assistants. It's on the order of 90 pages and then the topic that spawned from it is another 40 pages. It's just too much to expect most folks to read that. So a blog can cherry-pick the best, most poignant, on-topic comments and shine a light on them.</p></blockquote><p>And thanks for that- I usually check EQ2wire first thing in the morning, then check forums- that way I've already had the "reader's digest" and know what topics might be interesting.</p><p>I don't use twitter myself- I think the name says it all <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /> but I'm in favor of anything that has the devs and users communicating more.  I've always enjoyed the dev blogs on Eve, I think they do a nice job there of kind of giving people a look at the though processes behind some of the decisions being made.</p>

[Chalysa]

<p><a href="http://twitter.com/LtColWulff" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/LtColWulff</a></p><p>Just signed up for Twitter today!</p>

[Spyderbite]

<p><cite>Mathafern@Mistmoore wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite></cite>I don't use twitter myself- I think the name says it all <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" /> but I'm in favor of anything that has the devs and users communicating more.  I've always enjoyed the dev blogs on Eve, I think they do a nice job there of kind of giving people a look at the though processes behind some of the decisions being made.</p></blockquote><p>Its a great wallflower tool too. Especially if you follow talkative celebrities. And, if you do tweet rather than just observe, its quite surprising how responsive celebrities are on Twitter. I've had some lengthly conversations in Twitter with people that I probably would never get to chat with on the street like Wil Wheaton, Betty Nyguen, Larry King, Bill Maher, and various others. Word of warning to twitter newbs.. no matter how much you want to follow Ashton Kutcher.. resist! The guy is a complete attention [Removed for Content] on Twitter. He's capable of flooding out everyone else with tweets in a matter of minutes. <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[aliksteel]

<p>I have had it for a bit now, and find it to be a good way to keep up-to-date with EQ2 when I'm at work. Also if you have a cell phone you can use it on that as well. You can find at <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"><a href="http://twitter.com/Alik_Steel">http://twitter.com/Alik_Steel</a> </span></span></p>

[Zabjade]

<p><cite>MrWolfie wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><cite>Zabjade wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p><span style="color: #00cc00;">I don't Twitter, Facebook, no way.  I barely update my Deviant Art Journal. </span></p></blockquote><p>Barely? That's bordering on obsessive where I come from.</p></blockquote><p><span style="color: #00cc00;">I'm an artists so I prefer to post art. ;p</span></p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>aliksteel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Also if you have a cell phone you can use it on that as well. <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><span style="color: #0000ff;"> </span></span></p></blockquote><p>Only if your cell provider has "short codes" enabled.  Those are those 4- and 5-digit text numbers.  My Cruddy Regional Wireless Provider doesn't.  /cry</p>

[eqaddictedfool]

my life is not interesting enough to follow

[aliksteel]

<p><cite>Tisera@Unrest wrote:</cite></p><blockquote>my life is not interesting enough to follow</blockquote><p>Same here man,The thing is you don't have to post at all.</p><p>If you play on the forums, and if you are reading this you do check in here from time to time, Then you know sometimes when the game goes down, So also the forums can go down as well. I use the twitter to find out what is going on. EQ2 has a face book page, but it seems to be update very few times. The last two times the game has come down I have found the update on the twitter with'in 30min of the game going down.</p><p>NOT that you need twitter to tell you the game is down, but it's nice to complain about it with the other people that use twitter.</p><p>Hate to here that "<span ><a></a><strong>Calthine</strong>" I did not know that every one could not use there phone with it.</span></p>

[Calthine]

<p><cite>aliksteel wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>Hate to here that "<span><a></a><strong>Calthine</strong>" I did not know that every one could not use there phone with it.</span></p></blockquote><p>I know, it stinks.  Hubby can get Direct Messages on his phone, but I can't.</p>

[Barbai]

<p>Myspace,facebook, twitters its all a conspiracy to take your minds! RUN RUN WHILE YOU CAN.<span style="font-size: small;"> I <span style="font-size: medium;">SAID RUN!!!</span></span></p>

[Akhesa]

<p>i'm on twitter.  <a href="http://www.twitter.com/shadeone" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">http://www.twitter.com/shadeone</a></p>

[Enna]

<p>I was taught that we were given two ears and only one mouth because we *should* listen twice as often as we speak.</p><p>So... I'll probably "listen in" some, now that I know where to go. <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>My life isn't interesting enough to post about, either. However - the stories I invent to stave off boredom, well, some of those might be moderately interesting to someone besides me. But those stories won't fit in the tweet limit, so... *shrugs*</p><p>I just did one journal post on Deviant Art... after that, I let my pictures (and their captions, some of which are slightly on the longish side) do the talking. <img src="/eq2/images/smilies/b2eb59423fbf5fa39342041237025880.gif" border="0" /></p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p>Oh, I tried that tweetdeck Beta app... and maybe it's just me.. but it doens't seem to like Steam.   My Steam Client would then no longer connect on my PC.   Had to remove tweet deck.   Wonder if any other steam users found this problem?</p>

[Spyderbite]

<p>I use Twitterfox for Firefox.</p>

[Dirty Jack Rackham]

<p>Thanks, no.</p>