twitter twitter twitter

[rdfreak]

So as if I haven't got enough, what with Facebook, Livejournal, this and that, last night, I gave in to peer pressure, and signed up to twitter. Yes, it was peer pressure, and peer pressure only! Lol (http://www.twitter.com/rdfreak).
I was thinking about it last year when in U.K, but I'd have to ask someone to sign me up and I couldn't be asked.
and times have changed since I first heard about it. they now have an audio alternative for the visual varification signup, unlike before. So I got it working with my mobile phone. I can't seem to find skype though in the devices thinggy, so not sure where that is, though know it's there somewhere! there's only google, livejournal and java.
Unlike with LJ and Facebook though, I am not going to have a big friends list with twitter. having SMS' ngo off all day when I'm at work etc wouldn't be that cool! so I am only following very few people; the people I like to find out about the most.
Also can be following the MainMenu feed now, which I remember hearing about as they use twitter to keep their listeners informed (not that I listened to it for ages, but anyway :)
Today jordina girly is coming over, and this evening, we are doing something together we've never done before, just us two! something that I requested we do, and I'd normally never, ever want to be so willing to do it. -- since I loved the chicken Kieve at that burnley pub so so much, and I know J loves them as much as I do, I suggested we go to that pub, and exchange the expensive price of $20 to them for a lovely chicken Kieve (where the garlic nbutter just oozes out of the skin; yum! :) It is expensive for a Kieve and chips, but if J doesn't also believe it's the bestest she's ever tasted, she can kill me!
We'll be also making choc chip cookies today four our eating pleasure!
Nan just helped me put the locdots on the oven so now am set.
Oh, dad would be in dubai now. I got an email from him when he was in Singapore at 3.15 AM Friday morning our time. He taught Mum to use email and stuff so she can keep in touch and do the finances etc. so now she has an email address which is weird to think about, lol! Mum, though the best touch typist (with the job she use to have), had, and didn't really care to have, any knowlege of how to turn a computer on previously. but not, not only can she use the net, but she taught herself how to SMS.
til next time, RdFreak

Comments

[onlylisa.livejournal.com]

I deleted my facebook cause I have a few people on it that gave me the shits. But I'll put it back next week when they think I've gone.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

ah really? Yeh i was wondering what had happened. Facebook drama huh! I guess you tried removing them as friends? you can permanently block them too.

[onlylisa.livejournal.com]

I'll do that when I get back. For now I just wanted them to think I've deleted.

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

yeh fair enough.
In other news, poor travis. I didn't watch FNL so didn't really hear what happened but just read about it on BehindBigBro; well, about the speculation anyway; no-one knows nfor sure!

[onlylisa.livejournal.com]

I watched it but they didn't really show what happened. He just disappeared.

the doghouse task

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

Oh Lisa, while I've got you, was meant to ask you about this the other day. could you describe to me what was going on in that dog task where they were in the little dog houses? they were moving around, so how did that work? I eventually assumed that maybe they had it somehow over their head so they could still walk around, but I had no idea and was very curious about it and had been meaning to ask ya! :)
Thanks! :)

Re: the doghouse task

[onlylisa.livejournal.com]

Oh that's easy to explain Rach. They were in cardboard dog houses...about the size of a labrador in height. They couldn't stand up - just crawl around and not see where they were going. That made it funny cause they kept crashing into things when they moved. And it just looked funny seeing the dog houses moving around on their own.

Re: the doghouse task

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

ah OK, thanks for that. so how come a few of them got disqualified? what did they do?

Re: the doghouse task

[onlylisa.livejournal.com]

Well they weren't allowed to show any body parts and when they were moving about feet and hands became visible.

Twitter and Skype

[jmosen.livejournal.com]

rachel mate, yea for twitter.

Now to get it working on Skype, add twitter4skype to your Skype contacts. If you Google on twitter4skype you should find the instructions telling you how to set it up.

And regarding the text messages going off all the time, remember that you have full control over which tweets you get on your phone, and even then, when you get those tweets. You can send "off" via sms at any time to shut them off, or "off (username)" to shut off a particularly verbose user. Also, you ahve to expressly enable each user to be received on your phone. All very flexible and cool.

Your mission is to encourage that individual with whom you are having dinner to get on there!

Re: Twitter and Skype

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

hey J.M, thanks for that! yeh, I since figured out how flexible the site is in that regard, so that's cool!
yeh, last night, i got to a "getting started" tutorial but I couldn't find it again, so am not sure how I got to it! -- the site help is a bit confusing, but yeh, I will just google it instead and find it from there!
Thanks -- tweet tweet :)

Re: Twitter and Skype

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

oh woops, I forgot, and about my mission for the day, I of course will try! but it only took the girl twenty-four months to start writing in her LJ, after getting it just to spy on me.
Also it took her about the same amount of time to purchase an Iriver after I purchased mine! -- so, does she listen to me? hmmm she's learning! Lol :)

twitter trhings

[borrisinabox.livejournal.com]

I only got twitter for two reasons:
1. The ability to update my facebook status from messenger (tthatw ill soon be unnecessary, since Facebook is adding Jabber support soon).
2. for following news thingies.
I've already got enough bloggy-type-things to deal with, so I probably won't actually use it for what it was intended.

Kind of a neat service, if they could manage to keep their stuff from crashing, and keep their sms and messenger services from going offline all the time. Between that and Miranda's rss reader and weather plugins, I'm set... when it works, anyway.

Re: twitter trhings

[rdfreak.livejournal.com]

well yeh that's it. time will tell how much I actually will use mine as well, yeh, but i too love the idea! :) and I am now following a BBC feed myself. :)

[harmonybear.livejournal.com]

good luck with Twitter!
Hope you guys had fun -- send me some cookies they sound good... and now I need to find a snack :-P