mudcat.org on Twitter

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 06:47 AM

As I said above, I don't bother much with twitter, but, at the same time, I'm okay with these links-for-free that will give others a chance to check mudcat. And one of the good things about social networking sites, I think, is that they've levelled the playing field a bit, at least - even though some are themselves big businesses, of course.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Bill D
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 12:48 PM

Wow... that IS a change. It took me a minute to find the 'share' button, so I think it will be fine for those who want it....and it even UN pops after a second.

Good work, Max.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Amos
Date: 21 Nov 09 - 03:01 PM

Bill:

Sigh. It would help if you would notice that you have been being explained TO just as long as you have been explaining.



A

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Max
Date: 22 Nov 09 - 09:59 AM

Our flaws exposed. Got a message on Twitter this morning saying:

EnglishFolkFan: With the name I use & the vitriol on that thread I'm never gonna get away with posting on your website (fan not musician) am I?

C'mon folks, we have guests coming, be on your best.

Here we debate and worry of the behavior of folks from Twitter, and it is us that worries them. Love it.

Lizzie... chill, everyone else... quit poking Lizzie.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Artful Codger
Date: 23 Nov 09 - 10:40 PM

Yes, we have reservations about the folks from Twitterland--last thing we need are "tweet"-like postings which one has to decipher because of all the cutesy abbreviations. Folks accustomed to comment at Twitter/texting length seldom have much of relevancee to contribute--and seldom bother to check if their nuggets of wisdom have already been posted. Lizzie's post is an example of what we don't need: "Gawd, isn't this artist so kewl and underappreciated (because I didn't happen to know of her)? Stroke my ego by agreeing with me!"

Of course, there have been other--even informed--people who were "driven off" by unkindly responses, but that happens in every community. While we should remain respectful to newbies, and tolerant of their gaffes, I hope Mudcat doesn't become another cult-of-celebrity worship site through these attempts to draw in the "social network" crowd. Folks with a real interest in these types of music will find us--Mudcat threads are just a net search away. We don't have to get glitzy to attract new blood.

I'm at once a techie and a techo-Luddite--"progress" can lead backward, and many modern "social networking" trends have actually led to people becoming ruder and less connected in meaningful, satisfying ways. If you interrupt the person you're with to answer a call or text on your cell phone, Ms. Manners should bean you with an iPod and confiscate your rollover minutes.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Murray MacLeod
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 02:49 AM

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Bill D - PM
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 10:05 PM

"Our most active threads (no BS) are tweeted to alert the people that might not be checking us everyday as to what is being discussed."

"...are tweeted.." That is an interesting bit of grammar/phrasing.

what, I wonder, is the correct conjugation of the verb "to tweet".

My gut instinct is that it goes, I tweet, I have twit, I twat.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 04:20 AM

LOL......Tell ya' Murrray, why don't you take out your weni, widi,winky, Willie and go conjugate yourself...........

Spaw....still laughing

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 10:55 AM

You'll note... Bill D asked almost the same question earlier in the thread: the answer was kinda what I expected...*grin*

"From: Bill D - PM
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 05:59 PM

Can 'twit' be both noun & verb? If so, conjugation might be interesting...

...just wondering....

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: katlaughing
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 10:58 AM

LMAO, Murray!

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: catspaw49
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 11:06 AM

As I generally read all of your posts Bill, I'm sorry I missed that one but I see it now. Accept my most sincere apologies and feel free to conjugate the livin' hell out of yourself!

As a special apology, may I offer you one of the Special Edition Anne Frank Drums?

Spaw (;<))

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Amos
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 11:12 AM

I tweet, thou tweetest, he tweets, we tweet, you tweet, they tweet.

I tweeted, thou didst tweet/tweeted, he tweeted, we tweeted, you tweeted, they tweeted.

I shall have tweeted, etc.

It ain't that hard!!!


A

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: wysiwyg
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 11:21 AM

Thanks, Max.

BTW, do ya realize that now yer speaking Twit language? :~) For those of us not interested in going the soc-net* route, when you speak Twit your posts are incomprehensible. And I don't "fear" soc-net*, I just find it..... yucky and time-consuming of time I lack (and would not allocate there if I did have it).

*(Pron. suck-net)


Usable tags, now, those I could use around here. Anybuddy else? We got 'em yet?

~Susan

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 11:21 AM

Stephen Colbert speaks [wrongly] Well it certainly doesn't mean the same thing here

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 12:40 PM

Spaw... I had a drum once, people told me: "Take yer drum and beat it."

I learned a lot about verbs from that.

"...conjugate the livin' hell out of yourself!"

Is what why they refer to 'conjugal visits' in prison?

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: The Sandman
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 12:51 PM

Whats Twitter?is it a bird food? like Trill, or swoop,I have never heard of it before.
as long as it hasnt got marijuana seeds in it, you lot sound high as kites.,is that what your on.
a twitter a day keeps the black dog away

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 02:18 PM

*beating a hasty re-tweet*

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: My guru always said
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 02:48 PM

Oh, Bill *sigh*

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Bill D
Date: 24 Nov 09 - 02:59 PM

☺

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 08:13 PM

So, any Mudcatters tweeting more these days? And, if you want to add friends via searching your email addys, does it let you pick and choose or does it just add them in in one fell swoop? I sure don't want to do that to my friends.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: DebC
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 09:23 PM

I am..you can find me

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: DebC
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 09:24 PM

...pressed the wrong button.

Debra Cowan on Twitter

Debra

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: katlaughing
Date: 06 Oct 10 - 10:27 PM

Thanks, Deb, I just clicked to "follow" you and I now see how a background really dresses the place up. Thanks, again!

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Joe_F
Date: 07 Oct 10 - 06:12 PM

I lost interest in Twitter as soon as I discovered it was *not* for twitting people.

Subject: RE: mudcat.org on Twitter
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 07 Oct 10 - 06:31 PM

You don't search for others using email, that's a facebook thing. I've been on Twitter for quite a while.

SRS