Twitter, twhirl and Guy Kawasaki

I joined Twitter a few hours ago, after being invited twice. Okay, so I'm slow and I know it's been around a while. I was reluctant to join because of my less than perfect experience with Pownce. I'm not going to compare the two of them, just in case that's what you're expecting, because umm… I don't want to.

Anyway, so I joined and then followed a few people that I'd been in contact with. Some of them have followed me in return (you can follow me at http://twitter.com/rtcunningham, if you wish). Shortly after joining, Lin Burress of "Telling It Like It Is" straightened me right out on using the buttons of the web interface.

Guy Kawasaki

A short time later, Lin recommended that I pick an area at "Alltop", a link directory on steroids, and sign up because she was seeing a lot of referrers from there. When I couldn't find a sign-up spot, Lin recommended that I send a "tweet" to Guy Kawasaki.

Umm… you know, whether he puts his trousers on the same way I do or not, I don't feel comfortable asking for something from him quite yet. Heck, I'm just happy he's following me on Twitter!

twirl

A short time later, Maki of "Dosh Dosh" recommended I try out twirl, a desktop client for Twitter. It took me a whopping 5 minutes to download it, install it, configure it and start using it.

I am now officially addicted to Twitter.

April 5th, 2008 By RT Cunningham | Categories: Internet | Tags: desktop clients, services, twhirl, Twitter |

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Shrinidhi Hande on April 5th, 2008 at 4:30 am (Reply)

Even I created a twitter account very recently…Have started following u

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Jay Thompson on April 5th, 2008 at 5:44 am (Reply)

Careful RT, Twitter will suck you in and never let go!

@PhoenixREGuy

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Todd Morris on April 5th, 2008 at 8:10 am (Reply)

Hi RT,

Glad to see that you signed up. Consider me another one of your followers (Twitter and FriendFeed).

I'm sure things will change down the road, but right now it is very cool how easy it is to have "access" to, and interact with, people who are a bit more "famous" (for lack of a better word) in the blogosphere, via twitter.

Todd

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Guy Kawasaki on April 5th, 2008 at 9:14 am (Reply)

Feel free to tweet @guykawasaki anytime.

Guy

RT Cunningham on April 5th, 2008 at 12:05 pm (Reply)

I'm following everyone that follows me, as a standard practice. I hope I don't have to block anyone.

Carrie on April 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pm (Reply)

I love Twitter. It's great to have you aboard RT.

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RT Cunningham on April 5th, 2008 at 11:55 pm (Reply)

Thanks, Carrie.

Baxter Tocher on April 6th, 2008 at 1:32 am (Reply)

Are you using Flock?

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RT Cunningham on April 6th, 2008 at 2:11 am (Reply)

No, Firefox, why do you ask?
2. Baxter Tocher on April 6th, 2008 at 2:19 am (Reply)
  
  Have you tired Flock yet? It has built-in support for Twitter, Facebook and other goodies.
  
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3. Baxter Tocher on April 6th, 2008 at 2:32 am (Reply)
  
  There are a couple of other Twitter addons that you can use in Flock too.
  
  Here's a list of the Twitter-related stuff I've found so far:
  
  http://del.icio.us/btocher/twitter?setcount=50
  
  Baxter Tocher's last blog post..Links for 2008-04-04 [del.icio.us]
4. RT Cunningham on April 13th, 2008 at 5:13 pm (Reply)
  
  Sorry, I didn't answer your question. No, I haven't tried Flock yet.
  
  I'm knee-deep in other things right now, but it's on my to-do list.

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