Twitter... Day 7

but it's really Day 10 cause I didn't keep up.

i jus came down with somethin. think i caught a virus. feel like crap.

all in all, Twitter's fun to use, but it's more fun if you're an iPhone user cause you have the easiest on-the-go access. that and you have to have people u know on it to make things more interesting. i wana say that these online social networks dont get much traffic now that twitter's here. or is it just me? cause im usually on twitter instead, which leads me to believe that since twitter is a newer/quicker/more simple platform, a lot of people will be spending there time tweeting versus logging onto myspace & facebook. but who knows.

- Raw

Twitter... Day 6

I've officially deleted Twitterberry off my Blackberry.

It was too slow & laggy. Now if I want to hit up Twitter, I just do it through my mobile browser and post thru there. A little hassle but it's definitely more convenient than Twitterberry and most definitely not as slow.

Twitter... Day 4

Forreal tho... peep the asian dude. Racist. Haha.

"NONE OF YOU HAVE ANY FRIENDS!"

who hasn't gotten the fail whale tho?

So I was bitchin' bout why my Blackberry Twitter software doesn't have an "instant upload" feature for pictures. Well I was wrong. So sorry, Twitterberry. Only after I select and open up a picture could I then bring up the menu and choose "send to Twitterberry." I can't look at the file or even view the picture in that smaller thumbnail option where I see a whole bunch of other photos too. I have to be viewing only the actual photo before I upload it. So I tried. Only every time I've done that, it's failed to upload my picture/update. So Twitterberry still doesn't impress me much. I'd rather send my picture thru my assigned Twitpic address. Why am I complaining though? It's still all pretty easy. I'm jus sayin'... It's not as user friendly as I thought it would be, considering there's major hype around this thing. And it's still F'IN SLOW. FAK! I do know that iPhone users have it the best. I've heard nothing but good when hearing about the iPhone Twitter apps.

One of my favorite Twitter quotes thus far:

Tit: "So if you Twitted yesterday, doesn't that mean you 'Twatted'?"

What's gona' happen is, because Twitter is already getting pretty big. Pretty soon someone's gona' buy out this mother fucker. Then their programers will hopefully bring on technological advances and we'll have newer and better Twitter features along with advertisements and outlets or links to where we can spend money on bs (hopefully the membership will stay free). Hopefully shit will at least be faster by then. Who knows.

Twitter... Day 3

I've come to the conclusion that after this whole experimental period (1 week), I'll probably continue using twitter. Not sure as to how much or how often I'd continue to use this online social network death trap, but hey, these things are free. So why not? A lotta my friends are on this joint. I gotta say tho, I'm tired of the Twitter lag. It's pretty freakin' slow. As I said in the Day 2 post, the Blackberry software doesn't impress me, and now I'm finding more issues online. First off, the Blackberry software that I have doesn't let you upload pictures instantly from my Blackberry. Instead, I have to email it to a special address linked to my user profile. This is through a separate site linked to Twitter (www.twitpic.com). Not only that, but when I'm actually on a computer, uploading a picture is kinda slow, and after I changed my picture, it didn't instantly change. So it takes a while for the server to actually post your new one. That, and I couldn't tell if my picture was uploaded or not, I just sat there and hoped it saved my new one - luckily it did after I checked back later. On top of changing my picture, I changed my profile name which automatically changes your url (your url is twitter.com/yourprofilename). Now when I browse through peoples pages and they have me under who they're "following," it still has my old url.

If it wasn't for the lag and other update issues, Twitter would be a little more enjoyable.

Twit... Day 2

I guess I'm getting accustomed. The whole instant update thing is cool I guess, but I feel the actual server itself is too slow. When I'm online on the computer, I get a lot of error screens... it says "Try Again... too many tweets." And the Twitter Blackberry program for my Curve isn't too impressive either. It's simple and straight forward, but it takes a while for everything to load when I want to get @replies or updates. And after get updates, if I want to get updates again, it keeps the ones I already have and gets the same ones again including the new ones and stacks them on top of each other, creating a never ending list of updates that make the overall experience slower and more cluttered than I expected.

Although I did add it to my blog, so now my readers can follow me even if you don't have a Twitter account.

paaaayce

- Raw

Twit... Day 1

So I've requested the aid of a fellow Tweeter to guide me along the ways of the Twit.

[15:10] Me: how long u been on that twitter thing?
[15:11] P-Funk: since like late jan
[15:11] Me: shit's crazy...
[15:11] P-Funk: lol
[15:11] P-Funk: why?
[15:11] P-Funk: what's up?
[15:12] Me: iono
[15:12] Me: nuthin
[15:12] Me: i jus find it weird
[15:12] P-Funk: it's like stalking 2.0
[15:12] P-Funk: but i dunno
[15:12] Me: hahah...

**screen names were altered to protect privacy**

So as I expected, there's a setting where you make your Twitter profile private, and for people to follow you, you go through a request and accept process like any other online profile. Twitter's stalker rating has gone down... just a little. Juuuuust a little.

To Twitt or Not To Twitt?

I first heard about this new technology fad back in early January. Never decided to hop on, and usually when I really want to, it's already become the accepted norm. So it seems like the thing that everyone's doing, just like blogs, myspace, facebook... everything. But status updates? That's essentially what Twitter is to my understanding... "Instant micro-blogging." The Facebook status update without the Facebook. But why update everyone on what you're doing every second of every day in your life? Of course, the Twitter defense is, you don't have to - what you share/update and how much or how often you do share is up to you. But really though, I'd almost feel nosy if I were to continually read everyone's updates. But that's what it's there for right?

I guess I'll try it out. I'll give it a week, update ya'll, then decide if I want to continue...

...or let it die like everyone's Friendster accounts... hahaha.

- Raw