You’ve got a Tweet!

May 7th, 2008 in Social Media, Web 2.0

Started over a few weeks ago, I got back to my Twitter account. Despite the fact I have been a member of this service more than a year ago, frankly speaking, I didn’t use it regularly. Twittering two times a month is a kind of luxury thing for me.

So why did I finally come back to Twitter? My answer is simple: I started to use Twitter as well as other social networking service in order to expand my networking, to looking for more friends, to find out more strangers.

What is Twitter?

According to Wikipedia:

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send “updates” (or “tweets”; text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service (e.g. on a cell phone), instant messaging, or a third-party application such as Twitterrific or Facebook.

Right now, I frequently send my Twitter messages from my BlackBerry Curve 8310 (rather than its web version in PC). I am using both GTalk and TwitterBerry-client.

If you’re on IM all day anyway, why not read and receive Tweets? GTalk is an excellent application for this.

But, for writing Twitter messages, I prefer using TwitterBerry that kindly always reminded me to write less than 140 characters (which GTalk can’t do).

Ah yeah, I am also putting a Twitter badge in the sidebar of this blog.

You can follow me through Twitter by adding this: http://twitter.com/budip .

Happy twittering!

Follow me: twitter.com/budip

1 Trackbacks & Pingbacks

07 11 08 • Al Gore goes Twitter: Better late than never | BudiPutra.com

10 Comments

1 Akhmad Fathonih

Now who said twittering is useless?

By the way, did your read Femina this month. My wife said, there’s story about a husband addicted to twitter .

I guess this could be a good material on a post: “how to use twitter wisely”?
May 8th, 2008 at 12:06 am
2 Budi Putra

Wow! A wife got jealous with her husband’s Twitter? An interesting story
May 8th, 2008 at 12:21 am
3 Akhmad Fathonih

Not jealous but endangering family life. Serious. I haven’t read it though . Will read it tonight

PS:
If you are using wordpress (I can see you’re using 2.3.2), please consider installing “Subscribe to Comment” plugin. It’ll ease the conversation here
May 8th, 2008 at 1:08 am
4 MarkO

I also tweet from my cellphone. But this twitter-addict husband is new to me. Am curious.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:41 am
5 huda

I tweet from both my PC and my mobile device. Despite numerous kinds of java mobile clients for twitter out there, I prefer using the web interface (mobile version). Using opera mini’s speed dial, my twitter homepage is just 2 clicks away from my phone app menu. Let opera saves the login info for you.

In addition, opera mini compressed page is smaller than the xml feed itself. It saves me money coz I don’t apply a flat data plan in my mobile operator account.
May 8th, 2008 at 7:06 am
6 abah oryza

coz i’am indonesian, so, my favourite microblogging is http://kronologger.com

eh, bang budip lagi live kron Bill Gates euy
May 8th, 2008 at 5:49 pm
7 rama

tapi kronologger ini belum maksimal, namun udah membantu soalnya bisa via sms. klo twitter tidak bisa via sms… providernya cuman beberapa aja.
May 8th, 2008 at 8:58 pm
8 Wishnu

ok, I’m following you now
July 4th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
9 techie

Te way I see it, Twitter is one of the top 5 social bookmarking sites and with others mushrooming left and right, in five years we will have to login to 100’s of them to find our friends.
August 16th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
10 hasan

Numpang tanya dong mas, gmna cara masukin “isi” Twitter kita di wordpress gratisan.. makasih
September 29th, 2008 at 8:47 pm