Comments on: Tweeting Twitter http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/ Rambles around the head of an Irish Grandad Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 By: Sandra Sellers(kts nanny) http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19378 Sandra Sellers(kts nanny) Sat, 27 Jun 2009 08:43:51 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19378 what the hell is craic? You sir are probably close to pure crank. what the hell is craic? You sir are probably close to pure crank.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19377 Grandad Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:19:48 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19377 Susan - It is somewhat akin Martin King on TV3 - irritating but compulsive in an insidious sort of way. Sandra - Let's just get this clear - am I great craic or great crack? I'd like to know. Kate - I think you're treating this site as your personal therapist? Wait 'til you get the bill! Heh! Kirk M - I know damn well that you're on Facebook. You spend your time chatting up my women. Feel free to use the button [and my women?]. Susan – It is somewhat akin Martin King on TV3 – irritating but compulsive in an insidious sort of way.

Sandra – Let’s just get this clear – am I great craic or great crack? I’d like to know.

Kate – I think you’re treating this site as your personal therapist? Wait ’til you get the bill! Heh!

Kirk M – I know damn well that you’re on Facebook. You spend your time chatting up my women. Feel free to use the button [and my women?].

]]> By: Kirk M http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19376 Kirk M Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:41:28 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19376 I admit, after months of (easily) ignoring Twitter, I finally gave in and got me a Twitter (and Facebook) account a couple of months ago. From there I reluctantly went whole hog, hooked up my Twitterings to Facebook and installed TweetDeck. When I moved from Windows to Ubuntu I even got TweetDeck installed there as well, spent approximately a month Twittering and... ...and then promptly ignored Twitter altogether. Hard enough to write up blog posts these days let alone try to cram some sort of quality statement into a measly 140 characters. And I also don't really need to know stuff like this: <em>Spoiled myself with gourmet coffee this AM. Oyster flavored, yumm!</em> I'm still doing Facebook though since now the whole family's on it including M'lady (I never, ever thought she'd have anything to do with it but...). I have to face it though...I'm a virtually a social failure. Like your button though. Can I use it? .-= >> Kirk M´s latest brainfart .. <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/JustThinkin/~3/zNTHTZXbPaQ/" rel="nofollow">Lacking posts but accomplishing more?</a> =-. I admit, after months of (easily) ignoring Twitter, I finally gave in and got me a Twitter (and Facebook) account a couple of months ago. From there I reluctantly went whole hog, hooked up my Twitterings to Facebook and installed TweetDeck. When I moved from Windows to Ubuntu I even got TweetDeck installed there as well, spent approximately a month Twittering and…

…and then promptly ignored Twitter altogether. Hard enough to write up blog posts these days let alone try to cram some sort of quality statement into a measly 140 characters. And I also don’t really need to know stuff like this:

Spoiled myself with gourmet coffee this AM. Oyster flavored, yumm!

I’m still doing Facebook though since now the whole family’s on it including M’lady (I never, ever thought she’d have anything to do with it but…). I have to face it though…I’m a virtually a social failure.

Like your button though. Can I use it?
.-= >> Kirk M´s latest brainfart .. Lacking posts but accomplishing more? =-.

]]> By: Kate http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19375 Kate Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:26:50 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19375 Tried it .... mostly because my lovely son and heir said I should (?) but I have to say it leaves me cold - not only that it also leaves me confused.. KP rigged up a little something that showed my twitter tweets (?) in the corner of the screen but like you GD I really couldn't keep up and for the life of me cannot understand why other people are so fascinated by it. I have switched it off now... Rant over..... Thank you Grandad! .-= >> Kate´s latest brainfart .. <a href="http://www.iramble.co.uk/2009/06/green-fingers/" rel="nofollow">Green Fingers!</a> =-. Tried it …. mostly because my lovely son and heir said I should (?) but I have to say it leaves me cold – not only that it also leaves me confused..

KP rigged up a little something that showed my twitter tweets (?) in the corner of the screen but like you GD I really couldn’t keep up and for the life of me cannot understand why other people are so fascinated by it.

I have switched it off now…

Rant over…..

Thank you Grandad!
.-= >> Kate´s latest brainfart .. Green Fingers! =-.

]]> By: Sandra Sellers(kts nanny) http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19374 Sandra Sellers(kts nanny) Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:58:19 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19374 in rehab here! But...it is where I found you and others grandad,who I might add are just as addicting.It's about like starting out on booze and cigarettes,moving to pot,then onto the hard drugs(you&the rest)God help me! in rehab here! But…it is where I found you and others grandad,who I might add are just as addicting.It’s about like starting out on booze and cigarettes,moving to pot,then onto the hard drugs(you&the rest)God help me!

]]> By: Susan at Stony River http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19373 Susan at Stony River Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:58:01 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19373 Twitter is indeed every bit as inane and irritating as I imagined it would be. What I didn't expect was that it might be addictive in spite of that. OMG It's like 140-character television. Are there pills to treat it? .-= >> Susan at Stony River´s latest brainfart .. <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/StonyRiverFarm/~3/Y6E5_hS7jBk/swz-seeks-brainy-creative-types-zombie.html" rel="nofollow">SWZ Seeks Brainy Creative Types (Zombie Romance Help Needed)</a> =-. Twitter is indeed every bit as inane and irritating as I imagined it would be.
What I didn’t expect was that it might be addictive in spite of that.
OMG It’s like 140-character television. Are there pills to treat it?
.-= >> Susan at Stony River´s latest brainfart .. SWZ Seeks Brainy Creative Types (Zombie Romance Help Needed) =-.

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19372 Grandad Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:20:30 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19372 SAm - Aren't you the wise man! As for the slow site, you can get in queue for complaints. I am doing my best! :-| SAm – Aren’t you the wise man! As for the slow site, you can get in queue for complaints. I am doing my best! :-|

]]> By: Grandad http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19371 Grandad Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:16:38 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19371 Baino - It does have its advantages. Not many, but one or two..... Scribbler - Because if I didn't have Tweetdeck, I wouldn't be able to read anything. You can't watch television unless you have a television set? Maxi - If you are looking for royalties on that, you can fuck off. Baino – It does have its advantages. Not many, but one or two…..

Scribbler – Because if I didn’t have Tweetdeck, I wouldn’t be able to read anything. You can’t watch television unless you have a television set?

Maxi – If you are looking for royalties on that, you can fuck off.

]]> By: SAm Crea http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19370 SAm Crea Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:15:45 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19370 I have specifically avoided twitter. It sounds bloody stupid, so I am just not going to look. On another note Grandad, I know you are getting old and all that, but the site is gone very slow of late... Maybe you need a bit more porridge of a morning? Have you tried 10-10-20? (sprinkle lightly) .-= >> SAm Crea´s latest brainfart .. <a href="http://samcrea.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-just-meant-to-be-fun-you-know.html" rel="nofollow">Its just meant to be fun you know...</a> =-. I have specifically avoided twitter. It sounds bloody stupid, so I am just not going to look.

On another note Grandad, I know you are getting old and all that, but the site is gone very slow of late… Maybe you need a bit more porridge of a morning?

Have you tried 10-10-20? (sprinkle lightly)
.-= >> SAm Crea´s latest brainfart .. Its just meant to be fun you know… =-.

]]> By: Maxi Cane http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/comment-page-1/#comment-19369 Maxi Cane Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:10:36 +0000 http://www.headrambles.com/2009/06/25/tweeting-twitter/#comment-19369 If you didn't use it you wouldn't have caught my pussy buffet conversation. You're welcome. .-= >> Maxi Cane´s latest brainfart .. <a href="http://maxicane.com/?p=913" rel="nofollow">Linkage</a> =-. If you didn’t use it you wouldn’t have caught my pussy buffet conversation.

You’re welcome.
.-= >> Maxi Cane´s latest brainfart .. Linkage =-.

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