| Author |
 Topic  |
|
|
Joe Blevins 
"Don't I look handsome?"
|
 Posted - 10/09/2009 : 23:43:36
|
Hello one and all.
I don't know if this topic has come up anywhere else on the Fourum, but I am wondering if any of you FWFRers are on Twitter. I figured as lovers of brevity, you might be into it.
I've actually got two Twitter accounts going, both pretty obscure. The more popular is Wayne Kotke. Wayne's the name of a zombie character I play on a weekly podcast called Mail Order Zombie, a program about direct-to-DVD zombie movies. The basic gist of the character is that he's a more genteel, well-mannered zombie who is deeply concerned about how "the living impaired" are portrayed in the media. Wayne does a little editorial at the end of every Mail Order Zombie episode, and he's even got his own Twitter account and e-mail address. If you want to hear what I sound like, just download any Mail Order Zombie episode from #35 onward. Wayne's editorials generally come at the very end of the show, right before the closing theme. Personally, I'd stick with the ones from the last few months, when I switched to doing my part by MP3 instead of voicemail. The segments I do for MOZ have gotten fairly elaborate -- music, sound effects, ongoing stories, etc. In one recent plotline, for example, Wayne founded his own Scientology-esque religion called Kotketology.
In addition to doing tweets as a fictional character, I have an account that I do as myself called Items Of Delight. The premise is really simple: each day I post one thing I find delightful. It's a deliberate attempt to force myself to be positive for at least a few seconds per day. Unfortunately, Items has almost no followers. I'm posting this here in the hopes of getting at least a few readers. Generally, Items is only one tweet per day, while Wayne posts all the time. I try to make both accounts fairly entertaining -- no mundane updates on the minute details of my life, just stuff I find amusing. |
|
|
duh 
"catpurrs"
|
Posted - 10/10/2009 : 16:04:42
|
I don't "get" Twitter. I have 3 accounts I've never done much with, 2 are my own and one is for a client.
I went to the trouble of learning how to text updates to Twitter. Ho hum.
I remember MguyX posted once that if he twittered, it would be, "OK, I'm typing now."
"OK, I'm still typing."
"I'm still typing."
I think for Twitter to really mean something to me, it would need to offer the option to have selected updates texted to my cell phone. Otherwise, I ignore it. |
 |
|
|
Joe Blevins
"Don't I look handsome?"
|
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 00:30:48
|
It took me a while to get into Twitter, but eventually I found it to be sort of the microblogging equivalent of Four Word Film Review. The challenge, to me, is to say something interesting/funny/worthwhile in 140 characters or fewer. As far as the social networking revolution goes, I much prefer Twitter -- which is fast-paced and generally lighthearted -- to the needy, intrusive Facebook, which is basically a hellish high school reunion that never, ever ends.
I do most of my posting as Wayne Kotke. The other account is mainly for "following" various people -- namely my geeky pop culture idols. At least two people from Spinal Tap have Twitter accounts as do several MST3K alums, plus Weird Al, Pee-wee Herman, Dolly Parton, Tracy Morgan, and plenty of others. |
|
|
|
Joe Blevins
"Don't I look handsome?"
|
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 00:33:22
|
| Incidentally, I think most people actually do use Twitter through their cell phones or other mobile devices. I go through the web, but I'm a relative Luddite. |
|
|
|
duh
"catpurrs"
|
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 08:19:59
|
quote:
Originally posted by Joe Blevins
At least two people from Spinal Tap have Twitter accounts as do several MST3K alums, plus Weird Al, Pee-wee Herman, Dolly Parton, Tracy Morgan, and plenty of others.
(Whining) But I read that Miley Cyrus deleted hers! |
|
|
|
w22dheartlivie 
"Kitty Lover"
|
Posted - 10/11/2009 : 10:11:00
|
Heh, yeah she did. And her daddy has been trying to get her back on ever since, or so I read. I'm on Twitter at, believe it or not, @wildhartlivie. I find it kind of interesting. I find some of the tweets fairly amusing - John Mayer (@johncmayer), @ThisIsRobThomas, @EthanSuplee, @JohnLarroquette can be sort of deep (and will actually respond to tweets in the middle of the night), Lou Diamond Phillips (@LouDPhillips) seems to cook a lot and then tweet about it, I kind of like the mini-fantasy/adventures that @BrentSpiner does occasionally (the last one had him kidnapped by aliens because they watched him on Star Trek), and I never miss @shitmydadsays. It's too funny. And then I can stay updated on my Dancing with the Stars contestants and the next news about the Twilight stars. Well, sort of. I follow @peterfacinelli.
Some I often consider unfollowing - Marlee Matlin waxes much too politic for me and when Kevin Smith gets on a roll, he might tweet for two hours. Then again, he tweeted for 24 hours straight on Labor Day and I dropped him for the day. Then there are those who use to hawk their shows. Bleghh. |
Edited by - w22dheartlivie on 10/11/2009 10:24:22 |
|
|
|
Sal[Au]pian
"Four ever European"
|
Posted - 10/17/2009 : 18:23:03
|
| I don't get the point of Twitter. It seems to be just like Facebook statuses. |
|
|
|
[matt]
"Cinemattic."
|
Posted - 10/18/2009 : 13:23:00
|
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I don't get the point of Twitter. It seems to be just like Facebook statuses.
Yeah I've said to people before, they've basically just made an entire site out of that one Facebook feature.
|
|
|
|
benj clews
"...."
|
Posted - 10/22/2009 : 01:10:37
|
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I don't get the point of Twitter. It seems to be just like Facebook statuses.
Yep, I tend to agree and I'm not convinced it's going to have the staying power of more fully-featured community sites. However, until it falls out of favour, I think it could potentially be a great promotional tool, so I set up an automated fwfr account some time ago: http://www.twitter.com/4wfr |
|
|
|
w22dheartlivie
"Kitty Lover"
|
Posted - 10/22/2009 : 01:53:37
|
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I don't get the point of Twitter. It seems to be just like Facebook statuses.
Yep, I tend to agree and I'm not convinced it's going to have to staying power of more fully-featured community sites. However, until it falls out of favour, I think it could potentially be a great promotional tool, so I set up an automated fwfr account some time ago: http://www.twitter.com/4wfr
I sent you a tweet to follow the four of us FWFRs on Twitter. I didn't realize you were there and I've started following you. Gentleman Ghost and I have tweeted some reviews on the timeline already. |
|
|
|
Sean
"Necrosphenisciform anthropophagist."
|
Posted - 10/22/2009 : 04:35:34
|
"Any FWFRers on Twitter?"
For a minute there I thought you meant "Any Twits on FWFR?"
 |
|
|
|
ChocolateLady
"500 Chocolate Delights"
|
Posted - 10/22/2009 : 07:12:58
|
quote:
Originally posted by benj clews
quote:
Originally posted by Salopian
I don't get the point of Twitter. It seems to be just like Facebook statuses.
Yep, I tend to agree and I'm not convinced it's going to have to staying power of more fully-featured community sites. However, until it falls out of favour, I think it could potentially be a great promotional tool, so I set up an automated fwfr account some time ago: http://www.twitter.com/4wfr
Nice. I'm following you there now too. |
|
|
| |
Topic |
|
|
|
Any FWFRers on Twitter?
