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metirish
Dec 06 2010 02:14 PM

Who is on it?, it's like the best place now for breaking news.

I can be found as con5150

TransMonk
Dec 06 2010 02:20 PM
Re: Twitter

I've been mulling it for a while. I don't think I would ever post anything, but it does seem like it breaks some news.

It seems like there would be a lot of crap to weed through. Maybe I should just keep letting Cerrone sort it out for me?

metirish
Dec 06 2010 02:24 PM
Re: Twitter

TransMonk wrote:
I've been mulling it for a while. I don't think I would ever post anything, but it does seem like it breaks some news.

It seems like there would be a lot of crap to weed through. Maybe I should just keep letting Cerrone sort it out for me?


I thought the same thing when I signed up....I actually originally signed up to have a chance at winning a Nikon camera...you only have to weed through crap if you follow crap....

Sign up before someone takes the name Transmonk(not taken yet)

TransMonk
Dec 06 2010 02:32 PM
Re: Twitter

Sold...I'll do it tonight.

seawolf17
Dec 06 2010 02:36 PM
Re: Twitter

I love Twitter. I use it personally and professionally all the time.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 06 2010 02:53 PM
Re: Twitter

I don't really get it.

metirish
Dec 06 2010 03:00 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I don't really get it.


I'm surprised you are not on it, a great way to plug your site.

themetfairy
Dec 06 2010 03:20 PM
Re: Twitter

I was on it for a while, but for the most part the people I followed on Twitter would post the same things on Facebook. I decided to just stick with Facebook and somewhat limit my social networking time sucks.

Ceetar
Dec 06 2010 05:38 PM
Re: Twitter

Great way to converse with fellow mets fans, and rather than randomly search out blogs and see ifa nyone has anything interesting to say, I just read my twitter feed and if there's something good, it shows up.

Same goes for interesting beer news, or anything else I may follow. Occasionally you come across the equivilent of the annoying fan beyond you spouting the garbage you hear on WFAN and want to avoid, but those people get unfollowed. :D

So far I don't think I've unfollowed any CPF folk,\\

G-Fafif
Dec 06 2010 05:59 PM
Re: Twitter

When you get a feel for it, Twitter's not quite as incredibly stupid as you think it is...which is as ringing an endorsement as I choose to give it.

TransMonk
Dec 06 2010 06:42 PM
Re: Twitter

@TransMonk

Don't expect any revelations from me via tweet. But I will follow the feeds.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 06 2010 07:05 PM
Re: Twitter

I have an account I use(d) for work for a time but to be honest it was only another thing coming in between me and doing my work. Plus my organization wasn't really supporting the effort.

I think it could still be useful if anyone over there was interested in using the medium strategically, but that's asking a lot of my group.

Meantime I could see how my extracicular stuff could benefit some from Twitter, but how to keep worlds from colliding? I don't want my biz world interfering with you guys and vice versa.

Finally, this RT # @ shit. Don't like it.

metirish
Dec 06 2010 07:31 PM
Re: Twitter

TransMonk wrote:
@TransMonk

Don't expect any revelations from me via tweet. But I will follow the feeds.


Not finding you at all....weird

Fman99
Dec 06 2010 08:11 PM
Re: Twitter

It's brainless and fun, like a fat person dancing.

Willets Point
Dec 06 2010 08:45 PM
Re: Twitter

I try to use Twitter mainly to keep with other people in archives and records management, but I also yabber on about sports, blogs, and stupid stuff. I just followed TransMonk and Ceetar.

Ceetar
Dec 06 2010 08:48 PM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
I try to use Twitter mainly to keep with other people in archives and records management, but I also yabber on about sports, blogs, and stupid stuff. I just followed TransMonk and Ceetar.


That's an interesting name. I wouldn't have guessed.

Okay, the rest of you. Out with it. What's your names? someone make a CPF list even.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 06 2010 08:53 PM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
I try to use Twitter mainly to keep with other people in archives and records management, but I also yabber on about sports, blogs, and stupid stuff. I just followed TransMonk and Ceetar.


Do you feel as though your "archives and records" contacts are at all interested in your views on sport? Is there a way to separate these streams?

Ceetar
Dec 06 2010 08:58 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
Willets Point wrote:
I try to use Twitter mainly to keep with other people in archives and records management, but I also yabber on about sports, blogs, and stupid stuff. I just followed TransMonk and Ceetar.


Do you feel as though your "archives and records" contacts are at all interested in your views on sport? Is there a way to separate these streams?



This is the biggest problem with Twitter. There are programs that make it very easy to separate two twitter accounts if you wanted to do so, but it's not ideal.

I don't mind seeing random stuff in my feed as long as it's not excessive. it's interesting. I've unfollowed people that tweeted about soap operas too much. And a couple of people that liked to live tweet TV shows that I hadn't watched yet. Most of my follows are Mets fans or bloggers or what not, with some random others, like beer snobs, mixed in. The other random stuff is a bigger percentage now that Mets tweets are less with no real games going on. Keeps things interesting.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 06 2010 09:07 PM
Re: Twitter

Yeah, I just don't see how that would work professionally, unless I operated separate accounts. Do people tend to have more than 1 twitter account?

Gwreck
Dec 06 2010 11:19 PM
Re: Twitter

There are a lot of people who have personal and professional accounts, or similar. Like having a LinkedIn account and a Facebook account.

There is software that allows you to manage more than one twitter account.

metsguyinmichigan
Dec 07 2010 04:14 AM
Re: Twitter

I have two accounts, @ReporterDMurray and @MetsGuyinMich.

I used to make fun of it, but it really has become a legit news source. I keep Tweet Deck running on my laptop all day, which shows the separate lists to sort out the things I need to follow, like schools, politics and the Mets.

The only bad side is that you'll be humming along at work and then you'll see an Ian O'Connor tweet about Jeter and have to spend the next hour venting.

seawolf17
Dec 07 2010 05:17 AM
Re: Twitter

metsguyinmichigan wrote:
I have two accounts, @ReporterDMurray and @MetsGuyinMich.

I used to make fun of it, but it really has become a legit news source. I keep Tweet Deck running on my laptop all day, which shows the separate lists to sort out the things I need to follow, like schools, politics and the Mets.

The only bad side is that you'll be humming along at work and then you'll see an Ian O'Connor tweet about Jeter and have to spend the next hour venting.

I help run the university account (@stonybrooku), and maintain a couple of searches keeping an eye out for relevant tweets. I also use it to maintain relationships with our campus media, alumni, athletics, students, etc. We have a pretty active Twitter community on campus.

I also manage the CPF handle (@cranepoolforum) and the Bench handle (@thebenchtrading), both of which I'm hoping to make more active in 2011.

Personally, I network with a lot of higher ed folks and other Mets folks, mostly. It's great professional development for me, considering we don't have the money to go to a lot of conferences.

Edgy DC
Dec 07 2010 07:27 AM
Re: Twitter

And here I had no idea that people were tweeting on our behalf. What are you saying?

seawolf17
Dec 07 2010 07:36 AM
Re: Twitter

I sent you and Willets and JCL an e-mail about it a few weeks ago with the password, should you ever feel the need to tweet something.

Largely nothing, but every once in a while, I'll blast out a link to the forum. My last post was the day Sandy was hired. I'll pick it up as the offseason progresses.

Edgy DC
Dec 07 2010 07:37 AM
Re: Twitter

Good work.

metirish
Dec 07 2010 08:35 AM
Re: Twitter

Here is an interesting blog post about Scott Bourne, he's a photographer who has been out front on social media and the best way to utilize it , it's about photography but the principals apply.

http://sharpernewyork.blogspot.com/2010 ... phers.html

Willets Point
Dec 07 2010 08:49 AM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
Willets Point wrote:
I try to use Twitter mainly to keep with other people in archives and records management, but I also yabber on about sports, blogs, and stupid stuff. I just followed TransMonk and Ceetar.


Do you feel as though your "archives and records" contacts are at all interested in your views on sport? Is there a way to separate these streams?


I don't really think anyone is interested in anything I say, to be honest. I'm thinking of becoming a qwitter.

metirish
Dec 07 2010 08:54 AM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
Willets Point wrote:
I try to use Twitter mainly to keep with other people in archives and records management, but I also yabber on about sports, blogs, and stupid stuff. I just followed TransMonk and Ceetar.


Do you feel as though your "archives and records" contacts are at all interested in your views on sport? Is there a way to separate these streams?


I don't really think anyone is interested in anything I say, to be honest. I'm thinking of becoming a qwitter.



not true...your complaining about tumblr has made for interesting reading , I've gone to your site several times from your tweets.....shoot, you are one of the more interesting people in my feed.....

Ceetar
Dec 07 2010 09:25 AM
Re: Twitter

Atip though. No need to retweet beat writers or most other public figures. If we wanted to know what sherman or @petergriffin are saying we'd be following them ourselves

Willets Point
Dec 07 2010 10:03 AM
Re: Twitter

Thank you for kind words. Nevertheless, I do read more than I write. Mostly I retweet things to make it easier for me to find them again later, but if someone else finds them interesting, more the better.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Dec 07 2010 04:10 PM
Re: Twitter

ok, Work JCL is following MichiganWorkGuy. I will see how this goes and copy him.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 23 2011 08:27 AM
Re: Twitter

seawolf17 wrote:
I sent you and Willets and JCL an e-mail about it a few weeks ago with the password, should you ever feel the need to tweet something.

Largely nothing, but every once in a while, I'll blast out a link to the forum. My last post was the day Sandy was hired. I'll pick it up as the offseason progresses.


I never got this email!

Wifey is sick in bed, Lunchpail is sick on couch. I'm all atwitter @Springer66

metsguyinmichigan
Jan 23 2011 10:32 AM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
ok, Work JCL is following MichiganWorkGuy. I will see how this goes and copy him.



Cool! The MetsGuyinMich account, or my work account, reporterdmurray ?

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Jan 23 2011 11:21 AM
Re: Twitter

metsguyinmichigan wrote:
John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
ok, Work JCL is following MichiganWorkGuy. I will see how this goes and copy him.



Cool! The MetsGuyinMich account, or my work account, reporterdmurray ?


My work twitty guy has been following reporterdmurray for a few weeks now. Now my non-work me is twatting metguyyinmich

metirish
Jan 23 2011 11:27 AM
Re: Twitter

Thanks to twatter I now know that @Springer66 scratched his ass at 10:41 this morning , then went for a piss 3 minutes later......twitter is great .

So you have two accounts and I'm only following the work one?....what gives?

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Feb 13 2011 11:22 AM
Re: Twitter

No Irish you're following the social/baseball/etc JCL.

People who are interested in infrequent updates on food retail can twatter me at SN_Springer

Meantime being a Twitter Supastar has landed me a plum guest slot on an internet Mets talk show, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thehappyrecap at 6:15 ish tonite.

cooby
Feb 13 2011 01:19 PM
Re: Twitter

Break a leg!

Hey Widey, I was thinking about your MBTN the other day when I was pumping gas and noticed the price went up again. I remembered how when I was a kid, I thought of Mets when I heard certain numbers (didn't we all?) and recalled how up in arms my dad was when gas went from Jerry Koosman the whole way up to Tom Seaver in one jump.

I couldn't figure out where to post it on MBTN though :)
(you are probably relieved)

Methead
Feb 13 2011 07:31 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:

I'm all atwitter @Springer66


Just followed you as a result of a link posted by The Happy Recap.

My twitter is @planbvisual. I started using twitter as a professional resource / marketing tool. It works much better as a resource.

metirish
Feb 13 2011 07:43 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
No Irish you're following the social/baseball/etc JCL.

People who are interested in infrequent updates on food retail can twatter me at SN_Springer

Meantime being a Twitter Supastar has landed me a plum guest slot on an internet Mets talk show, http://www.blogtalkradio.com/thehappyrecap at 6:15 ish tonite.



been reading your articles , I never knew.


@planbvisual , following you

@conor_coen

Edgy DC
Feb 13 2011 08:58 PM
Re: Twitter

Great job blowing their minds on 46.

Good pronunciation for "Oliver Perez," too. (Which is better than the host did for "Ching-Ling" Hu.)

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Feb 13 2011 09:19 PM
Re: Twitter

Rough first couple minutes I thought but I hit my stride eventually (you know, uh, you know).

Did you hang with it long enough to hear me compare Strawberry with Mantle?

metirish
Feb 13 2011 09:23 PM
Re: Twitter

listening now , skip past the super bowl shit guys and get to Springer.

metirish
Feb 13 2011 09:26 PM
Re: Twitter

this guy is pretty funny , he's right , on twitter today he was tweeting about Timo and Benitez

Edgy DC
Feb 13 2011 09:28 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
Rough first couple minutes I thought but I hit my stride eventually (you know, uh, you know).

Did you hang with it long enough to hear me compare Strawberry with Mantle?

Yup.

I'm thinking about it. Don't let 'em catch you with your pants down. Either hand 'em a bunch of questions you want to be asked or steer the conversation to what you want to talk about. You're the expert. Own the conversation.

Cool job on clarifying your stance on retirement.

I got a cool new idea on retirement. Retire 31 and 45, but display the circles overlapping like a Venn Diagram. The cicles would reperesent Piazza and McGraw, and overlapped area would represent Franco.

metirish
Feb 14 2011 07:47 PM
Re: Twitter

Edited 1 time(s), most recently on Feb 15 2011 04:17 AM

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
Rough first couple minutes I thought but I hit my stride eventually (you know, uh, you know).

Did you hang with it long enough to hear me compare Strawberry with Mantle?



got to finish this tonight , there probably is no other Met players you could compare to Mantle in the way you were.....

nice dig at the yankees who'll soon be wearing triple digits .



putting down Franco's #45 Mets wearing career to one pitch was great.

Edgy DC
Feb 14 2011 08:48 PM
Re: Twitter

They had a strange conversation about Rick Aguilera. While their larger point --- that a team doesn't need to solve every roster problem to be successful --- was solid, they were arguing that the Mets never really established anybody in the fifth rotation slot in 1986, and they were speaking of Aguilera as if he were a far more obscure figure than he is.

metirish
Feb 15 2011 07:07 AM
Re: Twitter

I think JCL talked the host out of retiring every notable number the Mets have used, it was a fun interview , the host new his stuff as did the guest.

themetfairy
Mar 14 2011 03:18 PM
Re: Twitter

I decided to go back to Twitter after a 2+ year absence.

I'm InsidePitcher. I'll probably read more than I write over there, though. But we'll see whether I change my mind about that over time.

Willets Point
Mar 14 2011 05:04 PM
Re: Twitter

themetfairy wrote:
I decided to go back to Twitter after a 2+ year absence.

I'm InsidePitcher. I'll probably read more than I write over there, though. But we'll see whether I change my mind about that over time.



InsidePitcher replaces me. I recently deleted my account at Twitter. The noise to signal ratio is just way too high.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Mar 14 2011 06:36 PM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
themetfairy wrote:
I decided to go back to Twitter after a 2+ year absence.

I'm InsidePitcher. I'll probably read more than I write over there, though. But we'll see whether I change my mind about that over time.



InsidePitcher replaces me. I recently deleted my account at Twitter. The noise to signal ratio is just way too high.


Yuh, seems like you don't get much out of it unless you're on top of the stream all day, and there's not a lotta time for that. I do think you have to be there to be out there though.

metirish
Mar 14 2011 06:39 PM
Re: Twitter

I find it tolerable for breaking news/score updates , which I could get elsewhere I suppose.

Willets Point
Mar 14 2011 06:43 PM
Re: Twitter

The other thing that irritated me is that if there were people discussing something interesting, it was a pain in the ass picking through all the shortened words and following all the @'s to get to the start of the conversation . And then some of those would be replies to someone who had their tweets hidden. It must work well for people with smartphones who are on 24/7 but I guess I'm an oldster who'd rather follow a discussion on a message board or blog (or email).

metirish
Mar 14 2011 07:10 PM
Re: Twitter

If i did not have a smartphone I would not be in Twitter, getting the notifications are key.

Ceetar
Mar 14 2011 08:08 PM
Re: Twitter

I'm hooked, the constant influx of news and info is cool, and I'm not forced to 'guess' where the good posts are. If someone (beat writer or blogger or otherwise) writes something good, it finds it's way into my timeline and I can read it.

metirish
Mar 14 2011 08:29 PM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
If i did not have a smartphone I would not be in Twitter, getting the notifications are key.


so much for Google's speech to text....smart phones eh?

seawolf17
Mar 15 2011 05:09 AM
Re: Twitter

Ceetar wrote:
I'm hooked, the constant influx of news and info is cool, and I'm not forced to 'guess' where the good posts are. If someone (beat writer or blogger or otherwise) writes something good, it finds it's way into my timeline and I can read it.

That's it. Plus, I use it professionally; there's a huge higher ed community out there. I'm not saying Twitter is easy, but once you get invested, the reward can be enormous.

Ceetar
Mar 15 2011 07:31 AM
Re: Twitter

seawolf17 wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
I'm hooked, the constant influx of news and info is cool, and I'm not forced to 'guess' where the good posts are. If someone (beat writer or blogger or otherwise) writes something good, it finds it's way into my timeline and I can read it.

That's it. Plus, I use it professionally; there's a huge higher ed community out there. I'm not saying Twitter is easy, but once you get invested, the reward can be enormous.


It takes a lot of work to get it right. To really filter out the noise and junk, and it's hard to do taht during the offseason because (if you're planning to use it for the Mets anyway) a lot of people that are Mets fans/tweeters, myself included, tend to go off topic a lot more when there isn't Mets stuff to talk about. I ramble about beer a bunch for instance. I try to keep it down, but some don't. I had to unfollow someone for basically live tweeting soap operas every day, and another Mets fan because she was spoiling tv shows for me that I'd recorded.

Someone was live tweeting Snooki on RAW last night, which luckily i wasn't really paying attention, but a lot of "live tweeting" is generally just spammy. It can get a little annoying during Jets/Knicks/NCAA games because I don't care about any of it but plenty of Mets fans overlap and are talking about it. But those are the outliers that I ignore Twitter for a while for.

I do like to keep a little variety in my feed, I try to keep it so most of it's Mets, but the odd college admissions tweet or silly celebrity (Ken Jennings is actually a really good follow, whoever recommended that, thanks) are entertaining.


I only follow some of the beat writers (Popper, DiComo, and the less-beat guys like Burkhardt) because they get repetitive and negative.

Edgy DC
Mar 15 2011 07:38 AM
Re: Twitter

Yeah, it seems like it can be abused as a place for snarky sportswriters to practice their stand-up act.

And, of course, decent journalistic standards don't apply, so all snark bets are off.

Ceetar
Mar 15 2011 07:45 AM
Re: Twitter

Edgy DC wrote:
Yeah, it seems like it can be abused as a place for snarky sportswriters to practice their stand-up act.

And, of course, decent journalistic standards don't apply, so all snark bets are off.


Although it's fun to get snarky at those 'journalists' too. Although Jon Heyman is quick with the block button from what I understand.

Benjamin Grimm
Mar 15 2011 08:05 AM
Re: Twitter

I may be at the tipping point for old age. I read about Twitter and I have no interest, at all, in getting involved with it. (That may change, of course, if I discover a compelling reason to take the plunge.) If I was ten or twenty years younger, I'm sure I'd be much more open to it.

metirish
Mar 15 2011 08:11 AM
Re: Twitter

Benjamin Grimm wrote:
I may be at the tipping point for old age. I read about Twitter and I have no interest, at all, in getting involved with it. (That may change, of course, if I discover a compelling reason to take the plunge.) If I was ten or twenty years younger, I'm sure I'd be much more open to it.




if you wanted to promote the UMDB it might be a good place to do it......@UMDB would be the name I suppose....

seawolf17
Mar 15 2011 11:38 AM
Re: Twitter

Ceetar wrote:
the odd college admissions tweet

Hey! That's me!

Ceetar
Mar 15 2011 12:31 PM
Re: Twitter

seawolf17 wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
the odd college admissions tweet

Hey! That's me!


Yup, and while I couldn't care less about the Seawolves (actually, one of the friends I'm meeting down at Spring Training went there), I do find some of the "They called up and asked WHAT?" tweets pretty amusing.

Frayed Knot
Mar 19 2011 03:13 PM
Re: Twitter

Article in today's NYTimes about a backlash against Twitterers who essentially use it not to send updates but more like boastful 'I here and you're not' messages.
The SXSW music & technology festival - where Twitter apparently first started to become popular - is going on now in Austin and the tweet flood coming out of that town involving who is standing next to what famous person or hanging at the coolest party is rising high and swallowing followers in its path.

Willets Point
Mar 19 2011 05:50 PM
Re: Twitter

I'm sure SXSW is a fun event to attend, but the hype that goes with it each year just annoys the crap out of me.

Edgy DC
Mar 19 2011 06:39 PM
Re: Twitter

Was it always a music and technology festival? Didn't it start off as a music festival alone?

themetfairy
Mar 22 2011 08:14 AM
Re: Twitter

I'm not getting anything out of Twitter that I don't get here or from Facebook. I think I'm going to go back to ignoring the place.

Edgy DC
Mar 22 2011 08:37 AM
Re: Twitter

Facebook, which is inaccessible to me this morn. Anybody else having problems logging on?

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 08:42 AM
Re: Twitter

I haven't had any problems with Facebook myself.

themetfairy
Mar 22 2011 08:43 AM
Re: Twitter

Facebook was slow for me last night, but fine today.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Mar 22 2011 08:44 AM
Re: Twitter

Was giving me some shit this morning. Looks okay now.

Edgy DC
Mar 22 2011 08:52 AM
Re: Twitter

Then I've got a local problem.

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 09:13 AM
Re: Twitter

themetfairy wrote:
I'm not getting anything out of Twitter that I don't get here or from Facebook. I think I'm going to go back to ignoring the place.


Tumblr is where it's at.

Benjamin Grimm
Mar 22 2011 09:34 AM
Re: Twitter

Now I'm really confused. What's Tumblr?

Ceetar
Mar 22 2011 09:35 AM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
themetfairy wrote:
I'm not getting anything out of Twitter that I don't get here or from Facebook. I think I'm going to go back to ignoring the place.


Tumblr is where it's at.


I see no use for Tumblr at all personally.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Mar 22 2011 09:39 AM
Re: Twitter

Tumblr is a blog for people too lazy to actually write.

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 09:43 AM
Re: Twitter

Benjamin Grimm wrote:
Now I'm really confused. What's Tumblr?


Tumblr is an easy to use microblogging platform that unlike Twitter does not have an artificial limit of 140-characters and allows the user to post text, images, video, audio, and links. Also unlike Twitter where the only people who followed me were spambots for self-marketing "gurus" and purveyors of pornography, I've actually made connections with real, human beings who share my interests. There are a number of good Mets Tumblr blogs out there.

themetfairy
Mar 22 2011 10:52 AM
Re: Twitter

What does Tumblr give you that Facebook doesn't?

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 11:24 AM
Re: Twitter

themetfairy wrote:
What does Tumblr give you that Facebook doesn't?


I don't know if they're really comparable as Tumblr is a blogging platform (although there is a social networking element to it as well). I feel if I post something or share a picture/video/audio/link on Tumblr I have more control over the content and how it appears and it's easier to find if I'm looking for it later on. I can never find anything on Facebook after a few weeks unless I endlessly click "older posts". Plus, Tumblr doesn't seem obsessed with compromising your personal information and sharing it with the world (unless you really want to). Anyhow, I use both Tumblr and Facebook as they serve different, sometimes complementary, purposes.

Ceetar
Mar 22 2011 11:31 AM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
Benjamin Grimm wrote:
Now I'm really confused. What's Tumblr?


Tumblr is an easy to use microblogging platform that unlike Twitter does not have an artificial limit of 140-characters and allows the user to post text, images, video, audio, and links. Also unlike Twitter where the only people who followed me were spambots for self-marketing "gurus" and purveyors of pornography, I've actually made connections with real, human beings who share my interests. There are a number of good Mets Tumblr blogs out there.



I've made plenty of those connections via Twitter (I block or just don't follow back the bots). Many of those are also bloggers who share more stream of conscious and conversational stuff on Twitter. For me, it's a cross between Twitter and Blogging but really doesn't do either as well as the others, and that crossover just seems wasteful to me. (I do have a Tumblr, and I thought about using it while I was in Florida, but i opted to just send my pics to twitter instead)

I'd be interesting to see how Tumblr performs SEO wise. It seems like it's a little more streamlined and transient and wouldn't show up as well in search engines, particularly as stuff gets pushed down.

Benjamin Grimm
Mar 22 2011 11:38 AM
Re: Twitter

I'm torn between being curious about all this stuff, and thinking it's too complicated and unnecessary.

I think it may be a sign of being on the cusp of old age.

Let me pose a hypothetical situation: You have a young daughter on a softball team, and there's a game scheduled for this evening, about an hour from now, but the weather is threatening. If I sent out an e-mail and a tweet saying that the game is either on or off, which message would you be more likely to see first?

I guess what I'm wondering is, how often do you check Tweets? Do they come to you on your phone? Do you read them continually? Or do you just check the Tweets a few times a day? And how does that differ from your e-mail checking patterns?

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 11:47 AM
Re: Twitter

For me, I'd want the email. The problem I have with Twitter is that it does require constant moderating to get anything out of it and I'd probably miss that important tweet from Grimm. On the other hand the signal to noise ratio thing plays into this for me as well. If I'm not on your daughter's softball team I don't care if the game is on or off and it's just one more piece of irrelevant information clogging my Twitter stream. For every one thing that Grimm (or anyone else) tweets that I find interesting or valuable, there's a dozen tweets I just don't care about. This doesn't make Grimm a bad person it's just that there's really no way to sort the wheat from the chaff except by constant moderation. Of course this is an advantage for many other people and a sign that I'm behind the times because I have no interest in a smart phone which would make it more viable to follow a constant stream of tweets (and even then I think it would be more work than it's worth).

seawolf17
Mar 22 2011 11:50 AM
Re: Twitter

Depends. My phone buzzes any time someone hits me directly (@cdorso) on Twitter, so probably there first.

I'm not saying Twitter's easy, but the rewards are there if you're willing to put in the time. It definitely helps that I have Tweetdeck up next to me at all times at work, though; it makes it very easy to join the conversation.

For people who talk about "tweets they don't care about," then you need to question why you're following that person and if there's value there for you. If the person's important, then you put up with the occasional off-tweet; if not, then don't follow them.

Benjamin Grimm
Mar 22 2011 11:55 AM
Re: Twitter

I'm thinking it would be a softball-team-only Twitter feed. I'm wondering if it's a more efficient way of communicating late-breaking news to the parents of the girls on the team.

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 11:55 AM
Re: Twitter

seawolf17 wrote:
For people who talk about "tweets they don't care about," then you need to question why you're following that person and if there's value there for you. If the person's important, then you put up with the occasional off-tweet; if not, then don't follow them.


Well, everyone post "tweets I don't care about." So I quit following everyone.

I tried Tweet Deck, but it just annoyed me to have the thing popping up constantly. I guess I'm just a person who likes to do things on my own time and my own speed which is why I like blogs and rss feeds.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Mar 22 2011 11:56 AM
Re: Twitter

I'd probably send an email and also, copy the message to a central web address place that people would know to look for that. Like a team facebook page or a Tumblr page, where, as I understand it, you can update via your phone or email or whatever.

The thing about Twitter is that it seems you really have to commit to it. Seems like anyone with a following has to be out there cultivating it all day long, or else you have no following and aren't really a part of it.

Ceetar
Mar 22 2011 12:05 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
I'd probably send an email and also, copy the message to a central web address place that people would know to look for that. Like a team facebook page or a Tumblr page, where, as I understand it, you can update via your phone or email or whatever.

The thing about Twitter is that it seems you really have to commit to it. Seems like anyone with a following has to be out there cultivating it all day long, or else you have no following and aren't really a part of it.


You do have to cultivate it, but you don't lose followers when you're not tweeting (generally). So it's baseball season and you're particularly into a particular series and start discussing with some people you follow. Some start following you, others maybe retweet something you said or linked to and others follow you as a result. If you tag your posts with #mets you show up in certain places where random people may see. now you've got 50 followers, which isn't much, but if you take a vacation and don't say anything for three weeks, you'll still likely have 50 and the ab ility to cultivate more. Of course, if you spend your vacation tweeting about your love of hiking and the awesome trails your climbing and facts about weeds, people may unfollow you.

I've been doing this over a year now and am only up to 400 followers. It's taken me a long time of following and unfollowing people to get the noise level right, and often that depends on the time of day and season.

seawolf17
Mar 22 2011 12:08 PM
Re: Twitter

It's adaptable, though. My wife uses a Twitter feed at work exclusively to feed the online catalog; that's all it does, just "the system is up"/"the system is down" types of updates. She has a widget on the county catalog, then, that just shows that feed; so you always know at a glance what's up.

And you can set up a twitter account and only follow the softball feed, and have it send notifications to your phone; then you'll only get the softball updates and you never even have to log into the site.

My personal feeling is that if you want to do it right, then there's a time commitment. One of the key differences between Twitter and RSS feeds is the immediacy. It's real-time, where blogs you can visit at any point. They're not the same thing at all.

I abide the "noise" because I have diverse interests. Music stuff, Mets stuff, college admissions/web/marketing stuff. I do most of my tweeting on a professional level, though, with music and Mets stuff thrown in there. If anyone here doesn't want to follow that, then they're certainly not obligated to do so.

As I read somewhere: "FB is who you knew, Linkedin is who you know, and Twitter is who you'd like to know."

themetfairy
Mar 22 2011 12:14 PM
Re: Twitter

Benjamin Grimm wrote:

Let me pose a hypothetical situation: You have a young daughter on a softball team, and there's a game scheduled for this evening, about an hour from now, but the weather is threatening. If I sent out an e-mail and a tweet saying that the game is either on or off, which message would you be more likely to see first?


I assume that, while you're posting this news on Twitter, you would also post it on Facebook.

In this scenario, though, I'd get the e-mail first - I get my e-mail on my phone and get notifications when I have new mail. I'd then get it on Facebook, if it was there. But I don't check Facebook nearly as often as I check my e-mail.



As for Tumblr - what would it give someone who is already set with Facebook and Blogger?

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 12:20 PM
Re: Twitter

seawolf17 wrote:
My personal feeling is that if you want to do it right, then there's a time commitment. One of the key differences between Twitter and RSS feeds is the immediacy. It's real-time, where blogs you can visit at any point. They're not the same thing at all.


I didn't mean to imply they are the same thing. I meant that it works better for me. I used Twitter for nearly 3 years, mostly with the intention of following other people in libraries & archives. There are some interesting people out there but most of the time they're tweeting about their lunch, or their crappy day, or saying "you're great" to someone else, or doing @ replies to someone with protected tweets so I can only see half of the conversation. Most of these people also have blogs where they take the time to filter out the noise and focus in on a particular issue related to libraries or archives that I'm interested and can read when I have the time (and discuss in the comments). That's what I have the time for and that's what works for me.

As you can see by my verbosity here, I also felt constrained by the 140-character limit.

Willets Point
Mar 22 2011 12:23 PM
Re: Twitter

themetfairy wrote:

As for Tumblr - what would it give someone who is already set with Facebook and Blogger?


For you I don't think Tumblr would be desirable. Tumblr is easier to use and provides more opportunity to interact with other users than Blogger. Since you run a private blog I don't think this would be a feature for you.

Ceetar
Mar 22 2011 12:32 PM
Re: Twitter

I think Twitter fits well with the 'water cooler' type discussions people have, and very well with sports and other things that you'd look for an immediate reaction from, like political speeches, or disasters for the very reason that everyone in that subset is also looking to discuss it. When the Mets are playing, or when thety sign a player, people talk about it. But if you happen to want to randomly talk about the the effect of caffeine on child development or something, the immediacy of the data isn't as important and might be better followed via blog comments or something.

themetfairy
Mar 22 2011 12:44 PM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
themetfairy wrote:

As for Tumblr - what would it give someone who is already set with Facebook and Blogger?


For you I don't think Tumblr would be desirable. Tumblr is easier to use and provides more opportunity to interact with other users than Blogger. Since you run a private blog I don't think this would be a feature for you.


Blogger is pretty easy, so I'm chuckling at the concept of something being easier than that.

And thanks for the confirmation of my suspicion that Tumblr wouldn't fit my particular needs any better than what I already am using.

metirish
Mar 22 2011 02:16 PM
Re: Twitter

Um , asking , no begging Johan Santana to retweet you and say hi is a little bit desperate....

Ceetar
Mar 22 2011 02:26 PM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
Um , asking , no begging Johan Santana to retweet you and say hi is a little bit desperate....


yeah, that stuff is annoying.

metirish
Mar 23 2011 08:38 AM
Re: Twitter

Here is something I like about twitter, when the Oscars of Grammies were on there was some craic to be had on twitter going back and forth commenting with Seawolf and others on the goings on...very instant, some good laughs.

Fman99
Mar 23 2011 10:43 AM
Re: Twitter

I honestly don't feel a need to "tweet."

I am on Twitter and I like it for following certain sportswriters and such but I don't really care either way. If it went away I wouldn't miss it. I'm much more of a FB junkie.

Ceetar
Mar 23 2011 12:12 PM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
Here is something I like about twitter, when the Oscars of Grammies were on there was some craic to be had on twitter going back and forth commenting with Seawolf and others on the goings on...very instant, some good laughs.



Works for things like that, sporting events, Mets game..

in the age of DVR I hate when people do that with tv shows I haven't watched yet.

Fman99
Mar 24 2011 09:41 PM
Re: Twitter

In an attempt to make Twitter more useful to me, I've separated my existing account into two... one (my existing one) for people who I know, or at least interact with personally online (like Ceetar, for example, whom I've never met but will keep on this list). The other, newer one, I will use to follow sportswriters, celebrities, and people whom I don't know.

They're both public accounts. I don't care who follows me, really.

I think the reason I've disliked Twitter the most is that I had combined these two groups above into about 150 followers, and I was missing updates by real people that I know because of the steady stream of only-sometimes-interesting tweets coming from every other direction. We'll see if this makes it more enjoyable.

metirish
Apr 06 2011 09:17 AM
Re: Twitter

Had to drop Ken Davidoff......what an asshole....every tweet since the season started had his prediction for the MFY's to finish 93-69. I guess some people took offense to that and to be an asshole to puts it in every tweet.....people who took offense need to get a grip too.

Ceetar
Apr 06 2011 10:02 AM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
Had to drop Ken Davidoff......what an asshole....every tweet since the season started had his prediction for the MFY's to finish 93-69. I guess some people took offense to that and to be an asshole to puts it in every tweet.....people who took offense need to get a grip too.


Never followed him anyway, but looking back looks like he responds to all criticism of the predictions with "anything is possible"

His post today also says don't believe yet, it's too early. Just have fun, you're welcome to spend money on the team, but he seems to imply you shouldn't. complete with pot-shot/joke about the finances.

metirish
Apr 08 2011 07:40 AM
Re: Twitter

@bobojedaSNY is now active on twitter

"Breaking out a new graph in the Ozone on the pre game today.2"30pm.Hope you like it"

Ojeda might actually be interesting and not the usual drivel.

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2011 01:11 PM
Re: Twitter

#JohnSterlingCallingHistory is just too funny to pass up. I tried a couple.

My favorite so far

"And Lincoln gets Abe-ssassinated!"

metirish
Apr 15 2011 01:36 PM
Re: Twitter

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote:
#JohnSterlingCallingHistory is just too funny to pass up. I tried a couple.

My favorite so far

"And Lincoln gets Abe-ssassinated!"


yes , Sherman has been retweeting him.....

Ceetar
Apr 15 2011 01:46 PM
Re: Twitter

@FakeJSterling: JOHN WILKES BOOTH IS IN LINCOLN'S BOX, OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS! #SuzynWaldmanCallingHistory #JohnSterlingCallingHistory

Edgy DC
Apr 15 2011 01:48 PM
Re: Twitter

Ceetar
Apr 15 2011 01:49 PM
Re: Twitter

I'm sure there's a good one for Hiroshima, but I can't get it to sound right. An A-Bomb for Tru-Man! just doesn't flow.

Willets Point
Apr 15 2011 01:53 PM
Re: Twitter

OF ALL THE DRAMATIC THINGS I'VE EVER SEEN, JOHN WILKES BOOTH HAS SHOT THE PRESIDENT IN THE HEAD. JOHN WILKES BOOTH .... HATES THE YANKEES!

John Cougar Lunchbucket
Apr 15 2011 02:04 PM
Re: Twitter

Many of them have been done several times.

Here are my two:

Lined like a bullet! Into the back of the President's head! It's a Tragic story, from the Depository! Oh, Suzyn!


It is high! It is far! ... It is GONE! A rebuttal for the Space Shuttle! A disaster... for NASA!!

metirish
Apr 15 2011 03:03 PM
Re: Twitter

Is there any one person doing this or is it a tag #johnsterlingcallshistory

Willets Point
Apr 15 2011 03:16 PM
Re: Twitter

What about #waynehagincallshistory?

Ceetar
Apr 16 2011 08:59 AM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
What about #waynehagincallshistory?


And Booth fires, Lincoln doesn't see him, as he's watch the stage, and what a performance it is going on there! Mrs. Lincoln screams as Booth flees, and Lincoln is down, having been shot.

metirish
Apr 25 2011 11:12 AM
Re: Twitter

Hilarious

Darron Gibson joins Twitter at noon , pulls account by 2pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011 ... tter-abuse

Willets Point
Apr 25 2011 12:56 PM
Re: Twitter

I rejoined but am going to keep a strict discipline of following only work-related and professional development types. If this works maybe I'll start a second account for more personal and fun things.

Fman99
Apr 25 2011 12:58 PM
Re: Twitter

Willets Point wrote:
I rejoined but am going to keep a strict discipline of following only work-related and professional development types. If this works maybe I'll start a second account for more personal and fun things.


This is how I do it now -- my own account for interacting with people like yourself, and Ceetar, and a second one to follow journalists and people in the public eye.

metirish
Apr 25 2011 01:06 PM
Re: Twitter

Fman99 wrote:
Willets Point wrote:
I rejoined but am going to keep a strict discipline of following only work-related and professional development types. If this works maybe I'll start a second account for more personal and fun things.


This is how I do it now -- my own account for interacting with people like yourself, and Ceetar, and a second one to follow journalists and people in the public eye.



what about me you prick?

seawolf17
Apr 25 2011 01:06 PM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
Fman99 wrote:
Willets Point wrote:
I rejoined but am going to keep a strict discipline of following only work-related and professional development types. If this works maybe I'll start a second account for more personal and fun things.


This is how I do it now -- my own account for interacting with people like yourself, and Ceetar, and a second one to follow journalists and people in the public eye.



what about me you prick?

Didn't mention me either. I say we post something saying that he's really Justin Bieber.

Fman99
Apr 26 2011 08:13 AM
Re: Twitter

I already follow both of you, you whiny insecure FUCKS.

And bmfc, and G-Fafif, and JCL, and LWFS, and MGIM, and ABNS, and anyone else in the CPF on Twitter that is known to me.

Willets Point
Jun 05 2011 06:21 PM
Re: Twitter

Okay, I'm back in the fold with a separate personal account @othemts. I followed everyone who mentioned their username in this thread. If I missed anyone, just let me know, or just follow me.

metirish
Jul 28 2011 11:10 AM
Re: Twitter

This kid was born in the US?


"@Wheelerpro45: Well I'm a MET. Im ready to get started on a new path. It's was good San Fran."

Willets Point
Jul 28 2011 11:48 AM
Re: Twitter

Many Americans are bad about using "its" and "it's". Of course he would have been fine with just "it" here.

Chad Ochoseis
Jul 28 2011 11:53 AM
Re: Twitter

If he pitchs good, I dont care about his grammer skillz.

Fman99
Jul 28 2011 06:51 PM
Re: Twitter

It's was a good tweete, quit beeing dix.

metirish
Aug 17 2011 10:54 AM
Re: Twitter

Going to dump Dickey , he's filling up my timeline with utter shite....

seawolf17
Aug 17 2011 11:09 AM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
Going to dump Dickey , he's filling up my timeline with utter shite....

I thought his middle-of-the-night food Q&A was neat, actually.

metirish
Aug 17 2011 12:06 PM
Re: Twitter

seawolf17 wrote:
metirish wrote:
Going to dump Dickey , he's filling up my timeline with utter shite....

I thought his middle-of-the-night food Q&A was neat, actually.



It was , problem is he's holding ten minute Q&A sessions quite a lot.

Ceetar
Aug 17 2011 12:08 PM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
metirish wrote:
Going to dump Dickey , he's filling up my timeline with utter shite....

I thought his middle-of-the-night food Q&A was neat, actually.



It was , problem is he's holding ten minute Q&A sessions quite a lot.


he's only been at it a week. I'm hoping he gets bored of us.

Ceetar
Aug 17 2011 12:56 PM
Re: Twitter

I see @EdgyDC has joined twitter.

metirish
Aug 17 2011 01:44 PM
Re: Twitter

Ceetar wrote:
I see @EdgyDC has joined twitter.



and has nothing to say.......come on man.

Ceetar
Aug 17 2011 02:31 PM
Re: Twitter

metirish wrote:
Ceetar wrote:
I see @EdgyDC has joined twitter.



and has nothing to say.......come on man.


and he stealth followed me. I usually get emails for new followers.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Aug 22 2011 12:37 PM
Re: Twitter

In the spirit of @dadboner's Marianas-deep commitment to a character voice, my new favorite Twitter feed.


@FriendFromHS wrote:
fuckin STILL cant get ova casey anthony!!!!!!!!!!! #restandpiece
19 Aug via web


@FriendFromHS wrote:
i miss 4loko soooooooo much.... UGH obama iz da wurst
17 Aug via web


@FriendFromHS wrote:
im not racist but slavery ended in the 80s.... GET OVA IT
8 Aug via web


@FriendFromHS wrote:
HIDE YO KIDS HIDE YO WIFE HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA u guyz HAVE 2 see this youtube!!!!
4 Aug via web

Benjamin Grimm
Aug 22 2011 12:43 PM
Re: Twitter

There was still slavery 30 years ago?

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr
Aug 22 2011 12:48 PM
Re: Twitter

You'll notice, the Tweets are of a certain... flavor. But in case it isn't evident... think doofy, oversharing Tweets/Facebook statuses.

Your Friend From HS
@FriendFromHS Your Hometown
We went to high school together and you totally at least enjoyed me somewhat. Now you left but I still live in our hometown and I am LUV'N IT! HAHA