Comments on: How to Survive Twitter?

By: Twitter Revolution, A Book Review | Dr Shock MD PhD

Twitter Revolution, A Book Review | Dr Shock MD PhD — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:21:24 +0000

[...] searching for help because you’re drowning in tweets read a recent blog post on this blog: How to Survive Twitter. The author can be followed on tweeter: [...]

By: Twitter means business | Dr Shock MD PhD

Twitter means business | Dr Shock MD PhD — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 04:39:46 +0000

[...] How to survive twitter [...]

By: Jan Martens

Jan Martens — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 09:28:04 +0000

Also take a look at http://scienceroll.com/2009/01/04/10-tips-how-to-filter-discussions-on-twitter/ .

By: Lilian Nattel

Lilian Nattel — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 17:47:42 +0000

the immediate feedback of twitter (earlier chatrooms, msn, list-serves before that)is addictive. i suspect it’s a brain thing. too bad there are only 24 hours in a day. when you look back at the end of the year, or your life, what do you want to have spent it doing?

By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:55:54 +0000

@christopher. Thanks found it

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 18:18:52 +0000

Here’s how to set it up
http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008/07/07/how-to-set-up-twitterspy-in-google-talk/

By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:49:21 +0000

@Christopher
That sounds very nice, will look into it, especially the feature ‘track’ appeals to me, thanks and kind regards,
Dr Shock

By: Christopher

Christopher — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:19:12 +0000

What works best for me is to follow a small number (50) of people and get their tweets in Google Talk via TwitterSpy. This setup turns twitter into just another, somewhat noisier but still managable, Google Talk conversation window that can be ignored whenever I’m busy. TwitterSpy has the added advantage of allowing ‘track’, which sends me tweets happening anywhere on the twitter network whenever they include words I ‘track’ (e.g. dopamine, serotonin, chrisharris, iplant). @Felix, Twitter is not just a smaller version of blogging – unlike blogging it allows real-time conversations.

By: Dr Shock

Dr Shock — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 15:45:31 +0000

Thanks James. In this holiday season I am trying to find out the use and benefits of the things you just named in your comment. Will keep you posted. Twiter seems a good thing with some benefits but need to find some time for it.
Kind regards Dr Shock

By: james

james — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 12:17:13 +0000

I have a similar conundrum. Widgets, wordpress plug-ins, ping.fm, Firefox extensions. Where do I start? “Be active on Facebook and Linked In, and post on Digg”. Soon my head will explode.