smeddley: (Abandon Hope)
smeddley ([personal profile] smeddley) wrote2009-06-29 07:44 am

Come to the dark side...

...we have Twitter.

I find myself more and more drawn to Twitter, and it feels... dirty. But the ease of updating from a phone, and the lack of pressure to write anything profound... well, it's a powerful thing. Like this morning - the only things I have to say are that I don't want to be at work and my mini-fridge smells strongly of strawberries. Hardly LJ-post worthy, but an average Tweet. Of course, there are plenty of things you can't Tweet - like my post with the crochet pattern. So I'm not saying I'm abandoning LJ (I just renewed my paid account!), but during the day I see myself reading LJ and Tweeting, then updating/commenting on LJ from home.

I do have one question for y'all about Twitter - when you Tweet, it puts your username first. Do you treat this as the beginning of the sentence or do you look at it as if it were a script and there's an implied colon? Basically, are you a first-person Tweeter or a third-person Tweeter?

Smeddley does not want to be at work today.
vs.
Smeddley: I don't want to be at work today.

[identity profile] aeamek.livejournal.com 2009-06-29 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Treat it as a colon. Some Twitter programs use your icon only (like my TweetDeck), so it looks funny if you tweet a sentence like, "does not want to be at work today."

Also, thank you for your edits this weekend!

[identity profile] smeddley.livejournal.com 2009-06-30 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Cool, thanks for giving a reasonable explanation! I expected it to be a taste thing, but that makes sense.

You is welcome. Though if I hear about anyone running experiments with fuel cans and fire, I will be ethically bound to report it... after I watch the YouTube video a few dozen times... ;)