Twitter

[krisk]

Whom here is on twitter...?

Moi, im @howdoufeelabout

 

[Mike395]

Not quite sure why this is in NR General - moved to General Discussion.

 

[krisk]

Thanks

 

[Tomonthetrain]

@tomonthebus / @thetrainpage

 

[YorkshireBear]

@barlow_james :/ not right interesting mind but!!!!!!1

 

[SS4]

I'm not on Twitter nor do I ever intend to be.
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You can always try @ss4 - you might get Rochford news

 

[YorkshireBear]

I'm not on Twitter nor do I ever intend to be.
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You can always try @ss4 - you might get Rochford news

quality imput to the thread

my friends forced me and unfortunately i did that human thing of liking it... :/

 

[Peter Mugridge]

I'm on it as @Peter_Mugridge but don't expect purely railway based tweets if you follow me though!

 

[scotsman]

@angus_duncan

A selection of random comments on politics, school and the railways

 

[Minilad]

OK I am a confirmed non-twitterer and non facebooker. Of the two I could see more value from twitter though. Anyone want to try and convince me to give it a go. Twitter that is. Never going to go on Facebook as long as I have a hole in my...erm...head..or something

 

[Pumbaa]

I don't follow celebrities or anyone like that. I use it for politics, humour and informed opinions. As a result, I think of it as bitesize snippets of news, information, analysis and comment on world/UK/anything affairs. I have Twitter open on my work computer and I acn work/tweet at the same time and watch the world via Twitter, without having to do anything extra.

 

[Michael.Y]

@sunsettide

 

[466.networkers]

I have 2 accounts.

@disownedinc is my main personal account.

@PhotosByRyan is my photos/videos account.


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[Donny Dave]

2 accounts here as well. I'm keeping my personal account priate, because, erm, it isn't that active (plus what I do generally post from there is classed as NSFW, and not suitable for minors).

However, if you want news and views about the British Superbike Championship .... http://twitter.com/BSB_Forum

 

[YorkshireBear]

OK I am a confirmed non-twitterer and non facebooker. Of the two I could see more value from twitter though. Anyone want to try and convince me to give it a go. Twitter that is. Never going to go on Facebook as long as I have a hole in my...erm...head..or something

Im not entirely sure how to convince you but here to give it a go.

you could follow me and see my random thoughts as i go through the day, it can be quite interesting...

you can follow various railway companies to get up to date disruption which i find very useful (i dont work in industry so more useful to me i imagine)


P.S to all i may have followed a few of you...
IF you have friends on it, it can be quite cool to see what there up to, as recently with me manadged to organise a few days out just from seeing a few tweets....

Cant think of any more, oh yeah, if your a student you can procrastinate.

 

[TheJRB]

Well mine's pretty obvious @TheJRB!

 

[starrymarkb]

mine is @starrymarkb - not that it gets much use. (I am responsible for a couple of other accounts but they are not suitable for here)

 

[Mojo]

@railukforums

 

[Lrd]

@railukforums

Nice plug, but it's not technically yours is it? It justs posts links to any new threads on here...

Mine is @lewisday

 

[Mojo]

Nice plug, but it's not technically yours is it? It justs posts links to any new threads on here...

It's used on a regular basis to communicate with people and also those who reply to tweets made automagically.

 

[tbtc]

OK I am a confirmed non-twitterer and non facebooker. Of the two I could see more value from twitter though. Anyone want to try and convince me to give it a go. Twitter that is. Never going to go on Facebook as long as I have a hole in my...erm...head..or something

Twitter makes more sense if you follow more people on it - its one of those things that seems a waste of time if you only dip your toe in the water.

Its a good tool for giving you all the news you want in one place (e.g. if you only want to get news relating to your football team then you don't need to wade through several pages of newspaper regarding other teams you don't care about).

I've separated my viewing into various "lists", so I can separate "what my friends are up to" / "news sources" / "what famous people are up to". As a result I no longer buy a newspaper each day/ learn *that* much from news broadcasts, as you hear about any big story immediately via Twitter. Conventional news sources are only necessary for "background information".

If you like obscure things/ people/ music (etc) then its a very handy way of getting news about such things in one place (for example, as a Berwick Rangers fan I've seen updates today from the club regarding the fact that tomorrow's game looks to have passed a "pitch inspection", so I don't need to go visiting various websites to find things out - its all in one place on my twitter "timeline").

I find it a much easier way of finding out what people/ organisations/ things are up to, without having the news "spun" by journalists - look at how bad/biased most railway news (in the mainstream media) is for example - much better to get news from the horse's mouth.

 

[Bungle73]

@Bungle2010

I don't have enough followers to bother tweeting myself though; I just follow other people, like Martin Brundle, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamiltion, BBCClick and Southeastern.

I'm on Facebook too.