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1Mar/090

Twitter Updates for 2009-03-01

  • @comcastcares Hi. Sync is down again in Florence, AL. Has been for 20 minutes. Couldn't reach anyone by phone. Do you have any info? ETA? #
  • @comcastcares Did you do that? :) How is it that 20+ mins without, then I finally go through the trouble of tethering, and it comes back? #
  • Victory. The "the blackout the internet" campaign helped delay/re-examine the NZ law. http://bit.ly/XI6r2 Now returning to regular picture. #
  • Free pancakes today at any IHOP until 10pm to promote Children's Miracle Network charity. http://bit.ly/w5hSw #
  • @abstractrandom And by explosives, they mean a drano "bomb". Stupid prank, but no big. I think the Univ should let them back in ASAP. #una in reply to abstractrandom #
  • TweetDeck has made some improvements. (Notably, the click [+] to add/remove from groups.) I'll give it another go. Still has issues though. #
  • @Tweetdeck Lack of a "not in a group" smart group, plus TD having to see tweets before people show up in lists, make TD still very annoying. #
  • Kindle 2 owners,-correction-"licensees", Amazon just decided to give publishers the right to kill 1 of the features you paid for. Nice, huh? #
  • @blakebritton Twirl does alerts in the bot-right, and it's better than Tweetdeck in every way except: no groups, and on Win its Font sucks. in reply to blakebritton #
  • @blakebritton Glad it works for you. Twirl is my staple twitter/friendfeed client, but I am giving TweetDeck a 2nd chance. So far Twirl FTW. in reply to blakebritton #
  • RT @danwhnt: I feel for the NWS in NEArk. Forecast an inch of snow. They have 12". #
  • Twitter is starting 2 go mainstream, so 2 keep up I put together a list of every1 on Twitter in the #Shoals. http://bit.ly/11erK8 #
  • Here's live video from Florence, Al, in hopes that the snow will pick up on the camera. (I doubt it will.) http://bit.ly/6gA5V #Shoals #
  • @chaseathompson Well, it hasn't reached my place just yet, but tweets from East of here spotted some, and the radar shows it coming. in reply to chaseathompson #
  • Snow is starting to stick on cars here, but if it's falling now, I can't see it. #shoals #
  • Snow falling intermittently; just barely visible on the live cam when it does. (Ustream is at highest quality.) http://bit.ly/6gA5V #shoals #
  • Snow now falling more often than not. Everything is getting thoroughly covered. Pictures soon. #Shoals #
  • @medic60 Florence, Alabama here. in reply to medic60 #
  • @danwhnt I just went outside in Florence. Only a few mm on the road but about 4cm on cars. Police reporting some roads are getting bad. in reply to danwhnt #
  • @danwhnt @nsstcweather Here's some pictures from Florence that I just took. http://bit.ly/YDg58 #shoals #
  • Uploading video from outside, but it's 40 MB and iPhoto is being moody. No clue how far along in the upload it is. #
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1Mar/094

Tweeps near Florence

(Update 4/15/2009: Many many many people have joined in the past month. I dare say I was right about Twitter reaching critical mass in the Shoals. It will be very difficult to keep up with everyone, but I will soon post an updated list of selected people, and also describe how to find others. I will link to it from here. In the meantime, please enjoy this list which was last updated in late March. Thanks!)

(Update 8/10/2009: I still haven't compiled my selected list. I hope you'll should check tollie.org/twitter for various accounts I maintain, like @ShoalsRT. However, my friend @AbstractRandom has begun a user-contributed list, centralized rather cleverly around a twitter account. See @ShaolsList for details.)

Back in January of 2007, when I first started using Twitter, it was what some might call - pointless. I remember the questions I got when I posted this update one night after Step Sing: "Why? What's the point? Isn't that dangerous telling everyone where you are all the time?" Virtually no one I knew used the service. I was essentially micro-blogging to myself.

However, with time, Twitter developed an online community and people that found my updates interesting added me and vice-versa. For the majority of these two years, that community has been overwhelmingly homogenous - early adopters in the tech world. Lately, the attention Twitter drew during the 2008 election has helped fuel its mainstreaming, and most lately, I have noticed a surge of Florence, AL area people signing up for Twitter. I believe Twitter is about to reach "critical mass" in Florence, where it will become almost as ubiquitous as Facebook has become.

So I compiled this list. If I have left you or someone or someplace that you know off the list, please add them in the comments. Thanks! Grace and Peace to you.

Tip: Organically, some topics have developed "tags" that help others quickly search for them. To add these (called hashtags), place a # in front of the keyword. For instance, when talking about the Shoals area, add the #shoals hashtag to make it easier for others in the area to find your tweet. Also, #UNA is used for tweets about The University of North Alabama.

Tip: Use the 'More Info URL' in your settings to link to your website, Facebook, or Myspace.

Tip: If you like someone else's tweet and want to share it with your followers, you can "retweet" it. Just type in RT @their_user_name: Their message. For instance, if you want to share my tweet linking to this blog post you can post: "RT @tollie: Twitter is starting 2 go mainstream, so 2 keep up I put together a list of every1 on Twitter in the #Shoals. http://bit.ly/11erK8"

Tip: To add people from this list, login to Twitter first, come back to this page, then hold down Control/CTRL (Windows) or Command/CMD (Mac) while clicking the links below to open their profiles in new tabs. After you're finished clicking, go through your tabs one by one to Follow people.

People who go to Grace Life Church of the Shoals:

UNA staff and faculty:

Local News/Weather:

Florence, Al area:

Florence, Al Bands/Music:

Florence, AL businesses:

Bonus: Some other people you might not have known were on Twitter:

  • Adam from Myth Busters: @donttrythis
  • Levar Burton of Star Trek, Reading Rainbow, and Roots fame: @levarburton
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