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  • March 2, 2010 at 10:16 am #12216
    STATO

    Do many of you use Twitter? Been using it for a while and finding it quite useful now ive worked out you need to moderate who you are following so you dont waste time reading rubbish.

    Positives:
    -Interesting people who post links to (or ‘retweet’) news that you might not hear on local/national news
    -Organisations posting useful info such as @metoffice @sustrans @NewcastleCC etc.
    -Websites notifying you of new content (tho see negatives)
    -Following bands/DJ’s you like is another good way to learn about new bands/music/gigs you might also like.

    Negatives:
    -Far to many people posting drivel about what they are eating or where they just scratched
    -Websites posting all the days stories at once, filling up most of the main page and bumping off other posts [cough]6 stories at once this morning Roadcc[/cough]

    looking for some more people to follow to vary my news and interest intake. Any suggestions?

    Rich.

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  • March 3, 2010 at 4:53 pm #633489
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    Simon E

    STATO, I routinely browse who
    STATO, I routinely browse who someone is following as it sometimes unearths people you wouldn’t otherwise have thought of. I’ll look for Endura now you’ve mentioned them.

    Having looked at Orbea-FGS I luurve the uncluttered team jerseys (by ShuttVR) the riders are wearing in this training video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkMLHYETkqk
    Nice bikes and gorgeous weather too, I’m so jealous!

    The comic’s tweets are often for their online news items but that’s fine by me, and they’re one of the the first with racing news. Lionelbirnie’s own tweets are worth a look now and then too.

    I am not a fan of someone posting several items at once either. @Tony, how about 3 at a time first thing then 3 more a bit later?

    March 3, 2010 at 2:33 pm #633487
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    STATO

    Good call on Cycling weekly,
    Good call on Cycling weekly, never thought of the comic. Funnily enough they have linked me onto another good follow (for me) EnduraRacing, who a mate rides for, so good to keep upto date with the racing.

    Follow some food ones myself but since i hardly get time to go anywhere other than Tesco they seem rather pointless.

    March 3, 2010 at 12:33 pm #633485
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    Simon E

    I follow a handful until I
    I follow a handful until I get bored. Tried Met Office but it only tells me about weather warnings, but I watch the forecast anyway. I like newsy stuff – cyclingweekly, BCreports, fareground and other local food/event folks. I’d include roadcc but as I already drop in here every day there’s no need.

    I tried pro cyclists (bradwiggins, Greghenderson1, mcewenrobbie, cxhelen among others) but it can get boring after a while. I like Robbie. Brad has occasionally tweeted something funny/dry but not enough to follow. Never felt the need to follow celebs such as Stephen Fry (up his own ar5e IMO) and a certain Texan cyclist.

    Perhaps young riders like Ben Swift (swiftybswift) might be worth checking, and now the season is under way some teams too e.g. BMCproteam, Orbea_FGS.

    I prefer news & blog sites, which usually publish [b]content[/b] rather than one person’s navel-gazing / idleness / personal hygiene notes.

    March 3, 2010 at 10:35 am #633483
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    Tony Farrelly

    Six stories in one go! You
    Six stories in one go! You know why we do that? Cos they generate a lot more traffic at the start of the day posted as a block than as individual tweets đŸ™‚

    Aside from the fact that we usually have a lot of new stories to tweet about at the start of the day.

    March 3, 2010 at 9:26 am #633481
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    Anonymous

    To paraphrase Eryka Badu, I’m
    To paraphrase Eryka Badu, I’m an analogue boy in a digital world.

    I had a Facebook account created for me by my wife about 6 months ago, as it was the suggested way of keeping in touch with Flavio Zappi (cycling club) after years of slating it for being thoroughly pointless. Well, after 6 months of being a user, I will be deleting that very soon!

    Twitter is just an even more accentuated version of that pointlessness to me.

    I like my watches to be wind-up, my stereo has one knob (for volume control), and had to be forced to put a computer in at home by the other half.

    All that, and I’m a manager of an IT team in a large media company!

    Bring back the days before mobile phones, when we used to make an arrangement to go out, and all turned up because you couldn’t leave someone waiting in town for you with no way of getting in touch. It forced you to not just let people down at the drop of a hat, there is way too much unnecessary communication nowadays…and yes, I do see the irony in posting this on a website!

    March 2, 2010 at 4:02 pm #633479
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    James Warrener

    @jimmythecuckoo is me
    @jimmythecuckoo is me

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