twitter

I know I try to stick to just some news about the boys here, but I just had to give a little love to twitter ( www.twitter.com ).

Twitter is a free "microblogging" service. Its easier than writing a full scale blog as posts are limited to 140 characters. So you post just short sentences about what you are up to. The reason that it is limited to 140 characters is because on of the most common ways to interact with twitter is through a cell phone, and 140 characters is the limit for standard text messages. Twitter will also hook up to your instant message client ( works with pretty much all IM services ). If you hook up both your phone and IM then you can post to twitter by sending an IM to twitter, a text message to twitter or by going to www.twitter.com, or if you want it on your computer desktop without using IM you can also use any one of hundreds of desktop clients that all look similar to an IM client, but only interact with twitter. My favorite is www.twhirl.org.

In order to get updates from a person you just go to their profile and choose follow ( and if you want updates on your phone/IM make sure to turn device updates on ). Then every time anybody you are following posts an update you will get an IM/Text Message depending on what you have set up. If you set up both it will send IMs while you are signed into your IM client, and text messages while you are signed out of your IM client. You can also tell your text messages to "sleep" at night so that you don't get updates throughout the night.

Me and Jamie are both set up on twitter now ( www.twitter.com/edvedafi and www.twitter.com/jamieburich respectively ). Of course if you don't want to set up a twitter account you can simply check the blog page and you will see our updates at the top right of the page. However it is much more fun to keep up with twitter if you actually set up an account and are also posting. After setting up a twitter account simply click the links above for both jamie and my accounts and choose follow. We'll get emails saying that you are following us and then I'll follow you back.

I'm looking forward to seeing all the blog readers on twitter.