Monday, August 2, 2010

Twitter Affliction

My latest technological distraction is “Twitter”. Like I didn’t have enough to occupy my time, I have now subjected myself to hundreds of daily updates on a wide range of topics from hunting, fishing, weather, national and local news updates to scores of other related and unrelated informational injections. Through an application called “Twitterfeed”, I join in on the fun and am able to automatically send my blog updates to Twitter to alert any of my “Followers” when I write new posts. These notifications appear as short one-lined titles with short URLs that direct “Followers” where to go if they wish to read the provided article or find additional information.

At first, I found Twitter to be a little bit overpowering, as there are simply to many updates. To assist in managing the shear volume of information, I quickly learned to organize “lists” and “favorites” that help to center your attention on smaller more manageable bits of data.

If you haven’t yet connected your blog to twitter, I suggest you give it a try! It certainly helps in distributing your posting notifications to a much larger audience.

13 comments:

  1. The Downeast Duck Hunter has better things to do comrade...

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  2. What is your twitter handle

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  3. DDH,

    Like . . . Perhaps learning to speak Russian?

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  4. Steve,

    DUH, total Homer Simpson moment. My Twitter handle is "rabidoutdoors". Thanks in advance for following!

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  5. As I after thought to this post, I decided to add a "Follow Me On Twitter" button. Not sure why I hadn't thought of this sooner!

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  6. Вы думаете что вы смешной но охотник утки знает более лучше чем сыграть вашу тривиальную игру или делаю я?

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  7. After much experimentation, I have finally decided on a Twitter gadget I like. I ended up using Twitter Update by Blogger Buster and have added it to my Blog side bar. Will be curious to see how it works!

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  8. Twitter Update by Blogger Buster turned out to be a BUST! Now using:

    http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/07/twitter-badge-for-blogger.html

    With no problems.

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  9. Hey RO, is DDH showing off with that russian stuff.....or is he just pretending, and we don't know the difference?? (ha ha)

    I'm curious on how the Twitter connection will do for your blog. I'll be watching.

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  10. KT, Quite honestly I have never seen DDH "Russian" to do anything. It once took him 4 days just to change his socks.

    So far I have noted that I get several hit on the blog from the twitter link so it "appears" to have increased blog traffic. Will keep you posted!

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  11. Вы люди как раз don' t понимает как хороше я пишу русскому и что осатанелое Outdoorsman как раз ребенок среди людей. Он только принял мне 42 секунды для того чтобы изменить мои носки!!!

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  12. AND for those of you who do not speak Russian, as good as my friend the Downeast Duck Hunter . . .

    "You people just don't understand how well I write Russian and that Rabid Outdoorsman is just a child among men. It only took me 42 seconds to change my socks!"

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