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Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 09:56 AM

Can someone fill in the blanks for me and answer some questions? Ok, I give up .... I'm gonna start using Twitter. I got an id long ago so I could lock up @kcmets and that's my _____________? What is the significance of the #? I have one follower, and I follow @cranepoolforum. How do I ex- pand my horizons? If I follow, for example, @mikeandmike and I going to be inundated with tweets and stuff? Can someone PM me the password for @cranepoolforum? Maybe poking around there I can learn something. We seem to follow a lot of ______________.

Fman99 Nov 26 2013 10:07 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

You can follow https://twitter.com/cranepooltweets and then you'll get a tweet every time a new thread opens. It's super awesome (I set it up). I'm not much of a Twitter user, it's just too much noise for me. I have two accounts, one to follow public figures of interest and another to follow people who are known to me personally. I check neither of them very much, though I do have some other services that auto post to Twitter, some of my Facebook posts, my Instagram pics, my Runkeeper workout data. twitter.com/kcmets is your handle. The # is to allow your tweets to be found in a search for that topic, and also for you to search for a topic. You can search for #Mets or #MLB and see what people are tweeting about, for example.

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 10:22 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Thanks ... I think I'm following a dozen or so, mostly names I recognize from here for starters. Also @cranepooltweets.

Ceetar Nov 26 2013 10:24 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Twitter requires a big investment to set up, and it's learning process. And there is no right way to do things.(besides following @ceetar of course) Think of it this way..what are you planning to tweet about mostly, and what do you want to get out of it? Mets/sports news? sure, follow mikeandmike if you are interested in their show and what they might have to say. you can always unfollow if that person is doing nothing for you (and do this. a lot, it's how you keep getting value from Twitter without the stuff that sucks overwhelming you. Someone not saying something you think is worthwhile? don't follow them) So follow the Mets people. search for names, or search #mets or simply 'Mets' and see who's tweeting interesting things. (harder in the offseason) follow some of the beat writers (Jared Diamond is the best) but not all, unless you want 18 people tweeting "Terry Collins just said Daniel Murphy is a baseball player" filling your time line. Follow blogs you like that'll tweet links when they post new things. Some authors/stars/celebrities/aliens tweet interesting things. some don't. same goes for Mets players and minor leaguers. some tweet interesting stuff, some tweet about chipotle. follow, unfollow, as you get used to it. If you follow poeple that tweet things you want to hear, everytime you look at your timeline you'll see people tweeting stuff that you'll generally find interesting. you'll find new links, new sites, new ideas that you weren't even thinking of.

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 10:29 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Thanks, I'll see how things go. I found you already @ceeter!

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 11:15 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

So I click on my "Me" link and it comes up with a space on the upper right with my little image ... if I click on "edit profile this pops up: My Full Name @kcmets Rocket ship builder, pizza expert, loves the Giants, parent. New York - http://www.kcmets.com I never entered that description and it won't let me edit it. Is that what people see?

Benjamin Grimm Nov 26 2013 11:28 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

That's actually kind of funny. Where could that have come from?

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 11:30 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Is that what's publicly displayed? It's all wrong - I'm a rocket ship pilot, bbq expert, don't like the Giants, and I have no kids!

Ceetar Nov 26 2013 11:32 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

I don't see that. did you click to populate from another account or something? the Internet does that sometimes. or maybe someone had the name and abandoned it. it has your name, New York * kcmets.com and says you follow me.

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 11:46 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

No populating going on over here. Account is old, opened it many many years ago. I tried to do a screen capture but it's not copying to clipboard for some reason.

Zvon Nov 26 2013 02:05 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

I did the same thing. Opened an account years ago and never went back. I don't see me ever being a twitterer.

d'Kong76 Nov 26 2013 03:44 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

I don't see myself tweeting any time soon, but wanted to see what all the fuss is about. I also want to be able to use the technology if I need to in other capacities down the road.

Ceetar Nov 26 2013 03:53 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Kong76 wrote: I don't see myself tweeting any time soon, but wanted to see what all the fuss is about. I also want to be able to use the technology if I need to in other capacities down the road. well, you might find it worthwhile to reply to people that tweet things occasionally. or elaborate on them, so you never know. i.e. @someone tweets Doc Gooden's favorite food is lobster, I might RT to add.. @Ceetar: He used to get fish from my uncle's fish store RT @someone Doc Gooden's favorite food is lobster (true story btw) But yeah, the biggest thing is building a timeline of followees that you can check twitter and find out all sorts of interesting stuff from.

Frayed Knot Nov 26 2013 05:21 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

I've been slow to embrace new technology also. Right now I'm looking for someone to help me with the best way to redeem S&H Green Stamps.

Zvon Nov 26 2013 05:48 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Frayed Knot wrote: I've been slow to embrace new technology also. Right now I'm looking for someone to help me with the best way to redeem S&H Green Stamps. Wow, been a while since I gave those a thought. I suggest a time machine. Here's some more recent bounty. [url]http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/engage/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/11_1370c.jpg I feel Twitter would be an unnecessary time-sink for me. Then again I'm the guy who goes to Baseball Fever for a minute for some info, gets sidetracked, surfs there a bit, and looks up and see that 40 minutes have passed. So I mismanage my time in any case. But I'm not interested in shouting things out to the world in general. Id rather shout shit to specific people like you guyz. And I think the size of that arena intimidates me a little bit. Lil bit.

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 26 2013 05:56 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

It's fascinating to follow live during changing news stories, sports events, and other many-people-watching-same-thing TV spectacles, says @savetofavorites.

metirish Nov 26 2013 07:54 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: It's fascinating to follow live during changing news stories, sports events, and other many-people-watching-same-thing TV spectacles, says @savetofavorites. This I use it more than FB.....a lot of people do though .....a lot of fun can be had during live events weather it's aports, music shows , riots egtc. A few years back my niece's dog went missing in the Belmont section of the Bronx...I tweeted Keith Olbermann to see if he would retweet the info, he did and the dog was found within hours....I was in Puerto Rico at the time....a lady sent me a message saying she had the dog. a friend of hers saw the Olbermann tweet, he had found the dog near his deli...she went and picked it up and my niece's dad went and got it......Olbermann was chuffed to say the least.....it was the day after the massacre in Norway.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Nov 26 2013 08:58 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: It's fascinating to follow live during changing news stories, sports events, and other many-people-watching-same-thing TV spectacles, says @savetofavorites. If every tweeter was as lolly as @savetofavorites twitter would be great! Seriously But I have really struggled to assemble an online "personna" that works to my personal and professional interests. Right now I have two identities/address/accounts/followers to manage which is a PITA and doesn't serve either very well. I feel like I could be the Adam Rubin of my profession if I wanted but don;t want to turn off my friends and acquiantances who talk baseball and music 24/7, or erode my professional credibility by giving the appearance I care more about baseball and music than work (which, um, I pretty much do). On the upside, combining my 2 followings would make me a little more substantial and likely to soak up some followers I might not get directly. Like I said, I just don't know. If you follow me, would you mind getting a half-dozen tweets on the food industry each day in addition to whatever crap I post about baseball?

Ceetar Nov 26 2013 09:01 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: It's fascinating to follow live during changing news stories, sports events, and other many-people-watching-same-thing TV spectacles, says @savetofavorites. If every tweeter was as lolly as @savetofavorites twitter would be great! Seriously But I have really struggled to assemble an online "personna" that works to my personal and professional interests. Right now I have two identities/address/accounts/followers to manage which is a PITA and doesn't serve either very well. I feel like I could be the Adam Rubin of my profession if I wanted but don;t want to turn off my friends and acquiantances who talk baseball and music 24/7, or erode my professional credibility by giving the appearance I care more about baseball and music than work (which, um, I pretty much do). On the upside, combining my 2 followings would make me a little more substantial and likely to soak up some followers I might not get directly. Like I said, I just don't know. If you follow me, would you mind getting a half-dozen tweets on the food industry each day in addition to whatever crap I post about baseball? The big question right? I've tried twice, unsuccessfully, to saw off my beer personality to a separate twitter, and just can't do it. I know this will end up pissing off some of the beer followers once baseball season starts up again and I'm more apt to live-chat about the games in progress, but it's just tough. But in the same way my feed, mostly beer/mets/baseball people fills up with meaningless soccer/ncaa, even political crap if the mood is right, stuff I don't like and I manage, my suggestion is to just go with it and tweet away about the food industry.

Zvon Nov 26 2013 09:29 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

metirish wrote: LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: It's fascinating to follow live during changing news stories, sports events, and other many-people-watching-same-thing TV spectacles, says @savetofavorites. This I use it more than FB.....a lot of people do though .....a lot of fun can be had during live events weather it's aports, music shows , riots egtc. A few years back my niece's dog went missing in the Belmont section of the Bronx...I tweeted Keith Olbermann to see if he would retweet the info, he did and the dog was found within hours....I was in Puerto Rico at the time....a lady sent me a message saying she had the dog. a friend of hers saw the Olbermann tweet, he had found the dog near his deli...she went and picked it up and my niece's dad went and got it......Olbermann was chuffed to say the least.....it was the day after the massacre in Norway. That makes me view it in a different light. I'll get to the twitterverse. Probably take me til 2015 but I'll get there.

d'Kong76 Dec 02 2013 12:29 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Howard Megdal popped up on my 'Who to Follow' list. Get enough of him here! ¿Can someone send me the @cranepoolforum info, por favor?

d'Kong76 Dec 04 2013 09:39 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Twitter is a bit too busy for me thus far, don't see me participating much but we'll see ... This was kinda funny: Bobby Bonilla ?@BobbyBonilla25 57m @JoeandEvan My sources tell me I'll be the Mets second highest paid outfielder next season. Retweeted by Evan Roberts

Frayed Knot Dec 04 2013 09:57 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Kong76 wrote: Bobby Bonilla ?@BobbyBonilla25 57m @JoeandEvan My sources tell me I'll be the Mets second highest paid outfielder next season. Retweeted by Evan Roberts Sources tell me you'd be the 1,458,352nd person to point this out.

Edgy MD Dec 05 2013 08:11 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Yeah, I'm trying to balance Edgy the foulmouthed but levelheaded baseball enthusiast and Edgy the pious humanitarian agency guy. They war within my soul and within my Twitter account, but operating two separate accounts seems like (a) a hassle; (b) a recipe for cognitive trauma; and (c) a setup for disaster on that inevitable day I forget which account I'm working and celebrate World AIDS Day or the Feast of the Annunciation with some blasphemy heard round the world like "HA! Suck it, Jeter!" 'Til then I temper both my selves and try to live meekly somewhere in between. I am not a Twitter jukebox hero.

John Cougar Lunchbucket Dec 05 2013 08:43 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Edgy MD wrote: Yeah, I'm trying to balance Edgy the foulmouthed but levelheaded baseball enthusiast and Edgy the pious humanitarian agency guy. They war within my soul and within my Twitter account, but operating two separate accounts seems like (a) a hassle; (b) a recipe for cognitive trauma; and (c) a setup for disaster on that inevitable day I forget which account I'm working and celebrate World AIDS Day or the Feast of the Annunciation with some blasphemy heard round the world like "HA! Suck it, Jeter!" 'Til then I temper both my selves and try to live meekly somewhere in between. I am not a Twitter jukebox hero. That is really well described. A skilled Twitterer could turn "cognitive trauma two-account guy" into a winning Twitter personality probably.

Edgy MD Dec 05 2013 09:02 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Twitter is insane and stupid. It's nonetheless all worth it for the sake of the Old Hoss Radbourn posts. Holy crap.

d'Kong76 Dec 05 2013 09:15 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Frayed Knot wrote: Kong76 wrote: Bobby Bonilla ?@BobbyBonilla25 57m @JoeandEvan My sources tell me I'll be the Mets second highest paid outfielder next season. Retweeted by Evan Roberts Sources tell me you'd be the 1,458,352nd person to point this out. I thought it was a dumb joke, didn't realize (according to google) the settlement dragged on until like 2035.

d'Kong76 Dec 05 2013 09:17 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Edgy MD wrote: Twitter is insane and stupid. And kinda lazy or something, can't quite put my finger on it yet. Will tweet it when if I figure it out. (I miss the Twatter and twat humor, I'm such a ten year old sometimes)

Ceetar Dec 05 2013 09:20 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Kong76 wrote: Kong76 wrote: Bobby Bonilla ?@BobbyBonilla25 57m @JoeandEvan My sources tell me I'll be the Mets second highest paid outfielder next season. Retweeted by Evan Roberts Sources tell me you'd be the 1,458,352nd person to point this out. I thought it was a dumb joke, didn't realize (according to google) the settlement dragged on until like 2035. Adam Rubin points it out every so often, it's one of the benefits of following him on Twitter. I think, technically, that It's Sterling paying him, as part of an 'investment deal' and not the Mets nor as an outfielder, but let's not let that get in the way of a good joke.

Vic Sage Dec 05 2013 09:49 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Twitter is useful in emergencies: the dissemination of necessary info to save life and limb. lost pets, kidnapped children, school sniper, fomenting revolution, informing on human rights violations... all very good uses of Twitter. These can all be covered by texts as well, but certainly more avenues of communication for stuff like this is great. As for all other twitter uses (which, i understand, constitutes 99.99% of all twattage)... its harm exceeds its value, in my view. ill considered opinions, unverified info, not to mention the degradation of the English language that comes from limiting communication to 140 characters, and its overall effect on the culture (speed over substance of communication, making all content equivalent (the leveling effect) despite any inherent inequality of thought or information, making rumor and libel equal in its reach to rational discourse, growing anti-literacy and devaluation of written speech, which degrades thought itself, self-aggrandizement and narcissism as a cultural expectation) seems to me to outweigh the value in hearing trade rumors faster or finding out whether Kim and Kanye are still together, or whatever it is that twats do. And while your mileage may vary on this point, your car is backing up over my dog so i have a right to get pissed about it.

d'Kong76 Dec 05 2013 10:09 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

#VicSage

Frayed Knot Dec 05 2013 10:51 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

Kind of all reminds me of the New Yorker cartoon captioned 'What we did before Twitter' showing a woman walking around a crowded sidewalk wearing a sandwich board which reads: TONIGHT I'M HAVING PORK CHOPS

Edgy MD Dec 05 2013 10:57 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

It was Facebook and pot roast! GET IT RIGHT!

Edgy MD Dec 05 2013 11:02 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

(said humorously)

d'Kong76 Dec 05 2013 11:22 AM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

RT:

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Dec 05 2013 04:57 PM Re: Twitter for Dinosaurs (and Carl Everett)

#whateverVic #TeamMeanJokesAboutRecentlyDeceasedCelebrities