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*tap*tap*tap* is this thing on?

twhirl makes twitter worth doing

june 19, 2008 at 11:49am in general

twhirlmany moons ago, i signed up for a twitter account. all the cool kids were doing it and damn if i'm not a lemming. i didn't quite "get it" tho. it's enough pressure to try and come up with a blog entry once in a blue moon that i think would hold a passing interest to one or two people. twitter is all about posting something "interesting" (assuming "what are you doing now?" is interesting) on a constant ongoing basis.

wasn't totally unexpected, but i failed at twitter. at any given time, i just didn't think i was doing anything worthwhile enough to hit the web site and update my status.

luke kilpatrick to the rescue. luke admonished me for being a bad twitterer, and i explained that updating my status on the website was just too much of a PITA. he then told me about twhirl, an AIR-based twitter desktop client, saying that he wouldn't be active on twitter at all without it. i downloaded it yesterday and took it for a drive.

*now* i see why people like twitter. aside from being a very cool app (i gotta start writing me some AIR stuff), it makes it ridiculously simple to not only update your own status, but also to keep up with the statuses of those people that you're following. think IM client on steroids.

if you're twittering without it, download it and give it a shot. if you're not twittering, sign up and then download it and give it a shot. feel free to follow me @ cgriefer

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Rostislav Siryk
# Jun 24, 2008 @ 4:44 PM
 
Me the same. Last I've posted to the twitter 58 (sic!) days ago. Actually I've heard a lot about thwirl before, but haven't installed it yet. Your post became a trigger — I went to the twhirl.org and installed it.

Wow, there's also a FriendFeed support and Pownce crossposting. Great. Thanks for the trigger!


 
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