Do you Twitter?

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I flitter, but have never Twitter.

Tuff, yuh not becoming ah Hermit are you? </div></div>

My Siblings and I were raised that way....so it is not strange!

[Tuff Gong]

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<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/06/gop-congressman-breached_n_164809.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">GOP Congressman Breached Security Via Twitter</span>
<span style="font-style: italic">February 6, 2009 06:27 PM </span></a>

<span style="font-family: 'Courier New'">Oh, brother. I just got this item from Congressional Quarterly. Apparently, a Congressional delegation went to Iraq today. The trip was supposed to be a secret. News outlets that knew of the trip had been told that the information was embargoed. But someone's been teaching these fools in Congress to use Twitter. SO GUESS WHAT HAPPENED:

A delegation led by House Minority Leader John A. Boehner , R-Ohio, arrived in Iraq earlier today, and because of Rep. Peter Hoekstra , R-Mich., the entire world -- or at least Twitter.com readers--now know they're there.

&quot;Just landed in Baghdad,&quot; messaged Hoekstra, a former chairman of the Intelligence panel and now the ranking member, who is routinely entrusted to keep some of the nation's most closely guarded secrets.

Before the delegation left Washington, they were advised to keep the trip to themselves for security reasons. A few media outlets, including Congressional Quarterly, learned about it, but agreed not to disclose anything until the delegation had left Iraq.

Nobody expected, though, that a lawmaker with such an extensive national security background would be the first to break the silence. And in such a big way.

Not only did Hoekstra reveal the existence of the lawmakers' trip, but included details about their itinerary in updates posted every few hours on his Twitter page, until he suddenly stopped, for some reason, on Friday morning.


Word fail. One hundred and forty words fail.</span>

[QK13]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Skelly</div><div class="ubbcode-body">so me is di ongly twitterer?????

i only twitter because this guy on tv who i <span style="text-decoration: line-through">am obsessed with and stalk</span> admire twitters. </div></div>

My name is Q.K and I Twitter.

[f0rTyLeGz]

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Last night, here in the West, the plane crash near Buffalo happened in prime time... and cable news TV was onto the story first. But Faux didn't didn't have people close to the scene, but there was one person on the scene with a cellphone transmitting blurry video. Julie Banderas, who is no where near the scene, and not at work, linked with a guy on Twitter who was nearby. So the two of them had a good conversation, via telephone, while blurry cellphone images of the crash were being transmitted. It was very cool spontaneous Live TV.

Part of Twitters coolness I think, is because so many younger people are totally into texting. One of my daughters doesn't answer her cell phone... her message asks you to please text her. Anyway, Twitter has you refine your message into a long headline. It's boiled down to clarity...er something.

[j-kid]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f0rTyLeGz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> One of my daughters doesn't answer her cell phone... her message asks you to please text her.

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What if people don't have texting feature, or don't know how to text? What if you are driving? Does she ignore her voice-mail inbox, or just block voice mail from being left all together?

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: J kid</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: f0rTyLeGz</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> One of my daughters doesn't answer her cell phone... her message asks you to please text her.

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What if people don't have texting feature, or don't know how to text? What if you are driving? Does she ignore her voice-mail inbox, or just block voice mail from being left all together? </div></div>I think if you are driving you should concentrate on driving. As to the phone, I don't get too many calls but I would much rather answer and email than to take a phone call, so I can see how some younger folks come to rely on the SMS and find it indispensable.

[Nylah]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
No, nor do I use IM and Text. I don't really have any contacts anyway and worse nothing to say to people! </div></div>




what the hell is Twitter anyways?


<span style="font-style: italic">actually, I dont require an answer seeing as I am not all that interested in a teeny-bopper type thing.</span>

[Tuff Gong]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Nylah</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Tuff Gong</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
No, nor do I use IM and Text. I don't really have any contacts anyway and worse nothing to say to people! </div></div>




what the hell is Twitter anyways?


<span style="font-style: italic">actually, I dont require an answer seeing as I am not all that interested in a teeny-bopper type thing.</span> </div></div>
Twitter is lot more than Teenie Bopper it started among and resided the Tech Community for a minute before it became mainstream.
It is micro-blogging...sort of SMS for Computers and Computing Devices.

Speaking of which:

<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Twitter Raises $35 Million In New Venture Funds</span>

[Tuff Gong]

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<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/twitter.surgery/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Surgeons send 'tweets' from operating room

<span style="text-decoration: underline">Story Highlights</span></a>

•For the second known time, surgeons &quot;Twittered&quot; last week during surgery

•Doctors used social-networking site Twitter to give updates about the procedure

•Following along online were other doctors, medical students and the merely curious

•Surgeons hope twittering will help educate other doctors and the public