Directory of Twittering Viners

I will endeavour to keep searching out more Viners who emit at least occasional tweets and add them to the list.

4 votes

#1 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 10:47 AM EDT

Paul William Tenny

I realize I'm not terribly active on Newsvine these days, but my twitter account has been linked from every article I've written for months now.

I guess that says a lot about how inactive I've been.

4 votes

#1.1 - Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:11 AM EDT

Brad Leclerc

Great idea!

5 votes

#2 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 11:55 AM EDT

Thanks for putting this together, Dennis.

5 votes

#2.1 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 8:37 PM EDT

Twitter newbie question: can it be set so that it automatically begins following those who sign up to follow me?

Also I'm running, at Brad's suggestion, Twirl. Is there a way to make Twirl start up automatically?

1 vote

#2.2 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:11 PM EDT

tigerblade

Twitter newbie question: can it be set so that it automatically begins following those who sign up to follow me?

I haven't found a way to do that. You can have Twitter e-mail you when someone starts following you, and go through that list later, but I don't think there's an automatic way to do it.

4 votes

#2.3 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:26 PM EDT

Brad Leclerc

You can use TweetLater to automatically follow anyone that follows you. And you can set twirl to start automatically just like any other program by putting it in the startup folder (search for a folder named "startup"...or get a program for modifying the startup list)

3 votes

#2.4 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:49 PM EDT

finalcut

Scott,
I would strongly recommend against following anyone who follows you. There are a TON of twitter spammers who simply "follow you" so that you will look to see who they are and then be subjected to their spam.

In fact, just today, I turned off the feature of emailing me when folks follow me simply because I got sick of all the crap twitter users who really aren't interesting but, instead, are interested in MLM or SEO.

3 votes

#2.5 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:06 PM EDT

what's twirl? I must check this out.

2 votes

#2.6 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:20 PM EDT

what's twirl? I must check this out.

It's a dance move I'll show you when we make it to Chicago. Is it really going to be clothing optional?

It's a way for twitter messages to pop up on your screen.

Finalcut, I can always turn it off later but it seems logical right now as I've received emails from 20 viners today now following me.

Adding this article and discussion to Newsviners' Picks

2 votes

#2.7 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 10:57 PM EDT

What does "device on" mean?

2 votes

#2.8 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 12:06 AM EDT

Twirl details

2 votes

#2.9 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:12 PM EDT

"device on" means you'll get text messages from this person.

Twhirl is a wonderful desktop client!

Here is my evolving list of Twitter resources. Be sure to check out the Twitter Fan Wiki.

4 votes

#2.10 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:53 PM EDT

raymonty twitters

HAH !! I am sure viki will love you for that.

great list, thanks !!

6 votes

#3 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:22 PM EDT

Hmm. Just publishing as comprehensive a list as I can, and attempting to stay out of the politics!

5 votes

#3.1 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:26 PM EDT

Just kidding you..not a problem, very helpful actually I just clipped it to my column. I was just surprised to see him since he is not a member on newsvine any longer.

6 votes

#3.2 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:41 PM EDT

Mike D.

I don't use mine more than a few times a month, but I'm here.

4 votes

#4 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:43 PM EDT

Thanks Mike. I had your twitter on the list but not your NV column - amazingly enough! Now fixed.

5 votes

#4.1 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 12:51 PM EDT

Nice idea, Dennis! Thanks for putting the list together.

6 votes

#5 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:21 PM EDT

Cheers! Well at least you're not mad at me despite Tedd's warning!

7 votes

#5.1 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:37 PM EDT

Dennis,

Have you made sure all your vines are still in place ? Viki can be sneaky at times...

7 votes

#5.2 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 1:51 PM EDT

I'm an expert gardener!

7 votes

#5.3 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:13 PM EDT

lol, no, that's okay Dennis. ;)

I think it's probably wise to always keep an eye open for Raymont anyway.

5 votes

#5.4 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:25 PM EDT

I am pretty good at laying down BS fertilizer in case it gets pruned :-)

So one question about Twitter. Do you have to be a member of Twitter to "Tweet" and can anyone talk to you or do you have to add them as friends ? Like could I send a message to someone from a PC ?

5 votes

#5.5 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:37 PM EDT

You do need an account to twitter, but you can talk to someone who is not your 'friend' if you know their username.

4 votes

#5.6 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:51 PM EDT

OK thanks alot for that, Whoa saw some "following you" I had not seen in years Amber Mac ! Yikes, last time I think I saw her was @ Microsoft.

So how stable is Twitter ?

5 votes

#5.7 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:01 PM EDT

So how stable is Twitter ?

If Newsvine's uptime had the consistency of the site problems last week, Newsvine would still be 100 times as stable as Twitter. :-)

5 votes

#5.8 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:33 PM EDT

Ouch ! Ok....point painfully clear....thanks...

5 votes

#5.9 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:36 PM EDT

tigerblade

In all fairness, Twitter is very quickly fixing their problems. They've had some pretty good uptime reports lately. Nowhere near the peak of their problems when they were down for entire days at a time.

3 votes

#5.10 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:23 PM EDT

Letʼs just hope Twitter approaches Newsvine's uptime record instead of vice versa. :-)

4 votes

#5.11 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 5:53 PM EDT

finalcut

Twitter is actively rearchitecting their entire system. There are painfully bad periods of downtime.

I mostly use BrightKite now adays (and have it funnel my posts to twitter). The problem is getting my small list of friends to move to a different service. I like the potential of bright kite thanks to the optional "location awareness" where you can post your location and then your friends can find you if they want to.

However, in an effort help keep the directory updated I am, wait for it.... finalcut on twitter (and on brightkite, and just about everywhere else)

1 vote

#5.12 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:08 PM EDT

renderedtruthDeleted

I twitter here

3 votes

#6 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 2:50 PM EDT

talk to me about HelloTxt.com v Ping.FM.

3 votes

#6.1 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:19 AM EDT

Personally I use Hellotxt because it just seems less complicated, and it's been around longer. In terms of amount of services that they will let you post to, I think it's about the same.
It works the way it should, it's not as pretty as Ping.FM, but whatever.

HelloTXT is italian though, so some of the language/grammar is a little off.

2 votes

#6.2 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:59 AM EDT

I use Ping.FM. It does a good job, that I've seen, and its ability to come up with custom routing tags** is very useful. As near as I can tell HellTxt doesn't offer a similar capability.

** For example, if you only want an update to go to your services that use status updates, you can prepend your IM to Ping.FM with @s. If you only want an update to to services that are micro-blogs, you can prepend it with @m. If you only want it to go to Twitter, you can prepend @tt, etc.

2 votes

#6.3 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:21 PM EDT

HelloTXT eliminates the need for such codes by having checkboxes right next to the entry field. If you want to only post to a certain micro-blogging service you would just uncheck all other boxes.

1 vote

#6.4 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 11:09 PM EDT

Thanks, guys. Keep going!

1 vote

#6.5 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:54 PM EDT

But you need to do that from the website, right? The thing is that I donʼt usually browse to the website, I just have my IM client open and I can IM the bot. Also, if I were to post an update from my mobile phone, it would be convenient to be able to route messages.

1 vote

#6.6 - Tue Jul 15, 2008 11:05 PM EDT

Yep, that's where Ping.FM has HelloTXT beat.

HTXT doesn't have an IM bot and does not let you post to specific services via SMS (it's all or nothing). They do have a beta mobile version of the site so if you had a smart phone you could do it from there.

1 vote

#6.7 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 12:13 AM EDT

Russ R.

I'm here on Twitter all the time.

2 votes

#7 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 3:01 PM EDT

tigerblade

As I mentioned in Scott's discussion about Twitter, my usage goes through cycles of near-constant updates (especially if I'm bored at work or whatever) and droughts of once-a-week updates as the mood strikes. Lately I've been more active.

My loyal following can stalk me at twitter.com/tigerblade

1 vote

#8 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 4:12 PM EDT

Found a few more e.g. DAWeb, Faruk Ates, Eric Atienza, Brad Farris.

Sure loads more will turn up.

1 vote

#9 - Sun Jul 13, 2008 6:04 PM EDT

Jared Kardos

Here's where I Tweet.

1 vote

#10 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 1:27 AM EDT

I tweet as kegill ("E" is middle initial).

I also use uspolitics as a news feed from my About.com column (many of which are reproduced here on NV).

I use Ping.FM to broadcast status updates, but otherwise tweet with Twhirl. :-)

1 vote

#11 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 2:13 AM EDT

Eddie French

My Twitter, used infrequently up until now!

2 votes

#12 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 5:16 AM EDT

benjaminstraight

benjamin straight writes: Good job!

#13 - Mon Jul 14, 2008 8:30 PM EDT

JustForKicks

Ooo I'll have to start tweeting! Now I has me a nice list of watchee's, Thank you from the voyeur up above......lol

2 votes

#14 - Wed Jul 16, 2008 2:44 PM EDT

yasmin

I twitter here.

1 vote

#15 - Fri Jul 18, 2008 10:00 AM EDT

Orlando Dozier

Thanks Dennis for a great resource.

#16 - Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:11 PM EDT

http://twitter.com/PamelaDrew

You're welcome. I hope I can keep adding to it as (hopefully) the community of Twittering Viners grows.

#16.1 - Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:58 AM EDT

A. H. Min

Sweet, thanks Dennis!

2 votes

#17 - Tue Jul 22, 2008 1:10 PM EDT

Andimia

I didn't even know this was here, I found viners though other twitter people (I'm just good at finding people)

I twitter here

2 votes

#18 - Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:02 PM EDT

evano

Late to the party -- as always. But thanks for putting this together, Dennis.

I twitter here. Unfortunately my twitter name is evan0 because some bartstidge -- who I believe may be me -- already claimed the evano name. So sad.

2 votes

#19 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 12:17 AM EDT

Pamela Drew

Good news for most is that I'm usually later, on occasion Jim Dent follows me, but it's a toss up.

4 votes

#19.1 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:34 AM EDT

Pamela Drew

Well I'm all a twitter now and with any luck it will be something I'll learn to use too. Thank you!!

Ooh there was supposed to be a link to it, now that I'm in edit there's no HTML for me, oops!

3 votes

#20 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 1:57 AM EDT

Irma

Even though I do Twitter, as mentioned in the article above, I largely prefer Plurk.

3 votes

#21 - Fri Aug 8, 2008 3:38 PM EDT