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Tweeps near Florence

2009 March 1
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by Tollie Williams

(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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4 Responses leave one →
  1. Bliss permalink
    March 1, 2009

    Here are two that I know of not on your list. Thanks for compiling it!

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  2. Bliss permalink
    March 1, 2009

    @coreyoconnor & @lonniethegirl

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  3. tollie permalink
    March 1, 2009

    Thanks. I had seen both of them, but somehow missed them when copying names to the list.

    Reply
  4. Brad permalink
    March 1, 2009

    Awesome. Thanks for posting this.

    Reply

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