This past week I had an article appear in the local paper trying to explain Twitter and why it’s a such a useful tool and how to get started using it. The premise was that I keep running in to resistance to Twitter even among technically adept and adventurous people. I do admit in the article that Twitter isn’t for everyone. But I find it far more useful in so many ways than Facebook,...
Update 2: This morning my account was restored. Yay! It appears it was human error. Go figger. Update: Apparently I am not alone. It seems there has been a sudden influx of suspended accounts. So something is awry with Twitter. It’s not me. Suddenly, this afternoon, I stopped receiving tweets in my desktop application (Tweetdeck). So I went to Twitter.com and lo and behold my account has been suspended. Say what? I hadn’t even...
As if I needed someone to tell me that at 57 I am, to most of the world, an old guy. One of the tools I use to monitor Twitter, let me know that someone tweeted the following: “ashromano : @rmorse8843 omg ur gonna die go look at bob morse he is this old guy!!!!! its great.i miss you already LMAOO” Let me interpret: ashromano is the Twitter name for one Ashley Romano. She...
Hello, my name is Bob, and I’m a Twitterholic. Yes. It’s affecting my work life, my social life, my sex life. OK, maybe not that…yet. But I am taking steps to control it. Really. I am. I have lots of 3rd party Twitter apps that give me much more control than you get with your basic account. I know, I know, I should just quit altogether. But I am fascinated by this thing. At...
So the interwebs are all a-flutter with the Swine Flu possible pandemic. You haven’t heard? Then you are not connected!!! Are you not using Twitter? Don’t you have your Google Alerts set to swine flu as it happens? Seriously, the news cycle is now measured in nanoseconds and is unverified but replicated endlessly. Perhaps, this thing disease has legs. But it’s really hard to tell. Mashable, at least, has published a brief article that...
Man, it’s been a busy time at Morse Media and I haven’t had a moment to finish a full blog post. Lots of tweets, though. I hope to change that soon. Lots of backlogged draft posts and ideas. In the meantime I want to wish everyone how happens across this old blog the Merriest of Christmases and a blessed New Year. Technorati Tags: christmas, morse media, new year, twitter
I have started using Twitter a bit more earnestly in the last couple weeks. I had put it off for along time, not really seeing the value. But now I am hooked and learning from it. I am working on a longer post about Twitter. But in the meantime here is a cool service that links you to Congresspeoples’s Twitter accounts. And this page is a list of California Senators and Representatives who don’t...
I joined Twitter quite a while ago like I join nearly everything that comes along (LinkedIn, Facebook, OK not MySpace, but Twine, Newsvine, Jaiku, I can’t even remember all the Web 2.0 things I’ve signed up for) and then pretty much forgot about it. But every once in a while I get an email that someone is following me on Twitter. My first thought is always, “How sad for them.” Then, I start feeling...
