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2008 December 22

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by Tyler

Starting to Twitter.

Wow…I hear the snide remarks already. Leave ‘em at the door.

You can read my reasons for why I haven’t Twittered yet HERE.

Why am I starting to Twitter NOW you ask?

Well let me tell you…

I’m not in school right now and I have loads of free time (which was one of my big reasons for not using Twitter).
I haven’t been online near as much and will be off a lot when I’m in Alaska. It will allow me to stay somewhat connected with friends.
I have unlimited text and a phone built for texting so I might as well take advantage.

Feel free to follow me HERE. A lot of you already do even though I’ve never done an update (haha).

I’ll give this a shot for the next 3 weeks and I’ll see if it is worth sticking with.

Feel free to give me some advice on how to make my experience the best, because I don’t really know what I’m doing.

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Kurt Brandemihl

So many things I want to say…all I will say is I knew you would. for someone who blogs like every other second the whole ” I don’t have time for twitter” was always a weak argument. The bottomline is you started twittering because all your friends do and you felt you were always missing out on stuff. its ok to admit it man…
http://brentinworship.com/blog brent(inWorship)

Hell(or, Portland)…

Freezing…

Over…

But, on a serious note. I love Tweetdeck as an application to run Twitter. And, it does a great job of managing replies.

Good to see you jumping in. Haha!
Kurt Brandemihl

oh and PLEASE don’t just use twitter to point us to your blog…that’s bad etiquette
http://melindalgroth.blogspot.com/ Melinda Groth

Just think of all of the ideas for prayer that I will be able to glean from your updates!
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

Kurt- Actually almost none of my friends from home and from college use Twitter. This IS actually that I think I have the time to blog and twitter. And don’t worry I won’t twitter about my blog too much because I don’t like that either.

Brent- I’m using TweetDeck as we speak.

melida- very true

Here are my questions…

Can I use TwitPic by sending a picture message or does it have to be an email?

I had others but I forget now.
http://brentinworship.com/blog brent(inWorship)

My understanding is the only way your able to use twitpic is to email it.
http://www.jenniclayville.com Jenni Clayville

yes… twitpic is only email.

I don’t care your reason… i’m just glad you’re twittering now.
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

Twitpic is lame for us non-internet on our phones people.

I remember another question. How can I get a small feed of twitter onto my blog?
Jeff

I’m glad you are giving this a shot. After 3 weeks, I’m thinking you may be wondering how you ever got along without it!
http://vinthomas.com/blog Vin Thomas

Actually you can use twitpic by email or upload a file on their site. Hope to catch you twitter.

@vinthomas
http://mattsingley.com/blog Matt Singley

I’m pretty certain that we bet on this. If we didn’t, we should have. I told you so. So now you owe me $20. Thanks, I appreciate it.Just forward it to sunny LA. You can find my address on Twitter. Right on.
http://brentinworship.com/blog brent(inWorship)

Vin is right, you can upload from your computer as well. Of course, that won’t help you on the mobile end. I am hopiing that Twitpic goes SMS some day.

For a Twitter feed, check out this http://twitter.com/widgets/which_widget

Use the HTML code. WordPress doesn’t allow Java or flash. Just insert it into a text widget on your WordPress dashboard under appearance and you should be good to go.
http://manofdepravity.com Tyler

Matt- I actually surprised myself that something in me today thought I should do this. I’m fairly sure that we didn’t bet though. Sorry.

Brent- You are the man! Thanks for the help. The twitter adventure continues.
http://www.fredmckinnon.com Fred F. McKinnon

caver …
just got a new follower
http://www.sovannsblog.blogspot.com Sovann

Nooooooo!!!!
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