Filmwasters
Which Board? => Main Forum => Topic started by: Stu on January 27, 2009, 12:40:13 PM
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I am getting (not that gradually) dragged into the obssesive world of Twitter and was wondering if people want to share any of their photography related followers/followees?
I'd love to get the ball rolling, but I don't have any (hence the post) so i'm going to steal Ed's -
BJP = http://twitter.com/1854 (http://twitter.com/1854)
Oh, and me = http://twitter.com/stuw (http://twitter.com/stuw)
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http://twitter.com/nicnichols
Can't promise anything interesting.. but I'll try..
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The most effective use of twitter, that I've seen, is when it is coming from someone at some sort of event.
I have friends with a very large on-line following, and last year they twittered from the tents at fashion week, and it was hysterically funny. They have thousands of regular readers who were following along with their commentary.
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I'm there - lurcherleon
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just trying to get used to it - here it is:
salvo_t_zinzin
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http://twitter.com/moominsean
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Well, Stu you should know about me (http://twitter.com/edwenn or @edwenn in Twitter-speak) because we follow each other already. You probably know about @filmwasters too (http://twitter.com/filmwasters). If you're after a good start for photo-related Twitterering then take a look at the people who we've selected to follow via the @filmwasters account. Most if not all of them are 'in the game'.
I follow a whole bunch of other photographers and Filmwasters too so check my 'follow' list.
Please let me know if you find any others.
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http://twitter.com/cgmoyer (http://twitter.com/cgmoyer)
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I am only half enfranchised in this, but mine is http://twitter.com/lauraburlton
I am told I HAVE to do this, but I still really dont totally get it. I have now linked it to Facebook though so who knows, maybe I can make it more interesting somehow?
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http://twitter.com/astrobeck
is my part of the twittersphere
:) :)
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I am not sure if I should sign up. I know it will take too long to figure out and find myself lost. Like what am I gonna say on mine.....Hey, I started my period, yay!! I dunno....we'll see.
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there isn't a lot to figure out. it's kinda like a chat room, really...with a whole lotta people chatting at the same time. i have a tough time saying anything interesting...i have too many other internet outlets. i feel redundant.
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I joined recently, because I'm in desperate need of procrastinating even more than I do already.
http://twitter.com/ailsamcwhinnie
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Och Ailsa, av bin tryin tae sae rat big wurd (procrastinating ) fir de last few minutes an a cannae sae it yet >:( >:( >:(
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You can stalk... uh, I mean follow me at http://www.twitter.com/billvaccaro
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Um, what's twitter? And do I really want to know?
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Hello...I am new here and twitter is how filmwasters found me! https://twitter.com/lecheval
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Well I'm not sure what the point of it is, but I just signed up.
http://twitter.com/holgajen
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Well I'm not sure what the point of it is, but I just signed up.
That's what I thought but it has since become a great source of photography info - like a feed of all things interensting... and a chance to just be nosy!
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That's what I thought but it has since become a great source of photography info - like a feed of all things interensting... and a chance to just be nosy!
...agree with Stu, so please everyone, if you find any good photography sources on Twitter (preferably film-biased) then don't forget to post the links/names here please. I have collected a few and am following them via the @Filmwasters Twitter account, but there will be hundreds that I've missed.
http://twitter.com/flakphoto (@flakphoto) is a good one as is the BJP link that Stu posted above.
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I'm using Twitter to post short, cryptic notes to myself about the stuff going on in my life. If nothing else, it'll provide entertainment a few months down the road when I can't remember what the hell I was writing about!
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I cannot seem to get/process/embrace Twitter. FB has already run roughshod over my spare attention span... downside of Twitter for the already overly plugged in would be?
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Gordo, you honestly won't 'get' Twitter until you start to use it and follow a bunch of people/organisations who you have something in common with (e.g. you and I would be perfect friends on Twitter because of our shared interest in early blooming Tyrolean duck cheese). A personal friend (i.e. real life in the flesh touch him feel him) has something like 4000 'tweets' to his name despite only having been on there like me for about 18 months and even he didn't see the point of it at first. Believe me, 4000 is bordering on madness. That guy, he likee, but at the start he was the same as most other people..."What's the point of this then?"
:D
Erm, despite now having a Facebook presence and having been on MySpace for a few years already, I don't use either of them regularly. MySpace from my perspective is very music-centric so I keep in touch with old band mates etc. on there and update my page when I have a gig coming up. I probably go there 6 times a year tops. Facebook I'm new to and set up my page there simply so I could start a Filmwasters group...for the precise reason you allude to; a number of Filmwasters 'faces' seemed to have all but disappeared from the Internet towards the end of last year, but the Filmwasters.com Missing Persons Bureau started receiving reports of them showing up on FB quite regularly. So I thought I'd take the mountain to Mohammed, as it were. FB being what it is I do stop by there on 'personal business' about once a week, but I've made a decision not to play games, install time-consuming apps & join anything I'm invited to....and this is all because I use Twitter for my 'social networking thing' fix.
I prefer Twitter because from a pure functionality perspective it does about 5% of what FB & MySpace do, but it happens to be the 5% that appeals to me. We all know by now how I'm busy & don't have a lot of spare time (drone, drone, drone!!), so the fact that Twitter is so lightweight & easy to use from any number of devices (computer, mobile phone, Internet tablet etc.) means I can join in the fun even if I only have 10 minutes a day to read and post. Hell, I get something out of it even if I only have 2 minutes a day.
A maximum of 140 characters per post is a fantastically liberating feature. People I think see it as a restriction at first, but most here would probably agree that in time it becomes something they like a lot.
But more than that I use my Twitter updates as the source material for a bunch of other sites I have online. I update my FB status automatically via Twitter (which is why there are about 10 posts to my FB profile every day even though I rarely log onto FB itself) and have my Twitter embedded in MySpace & also my band-related personal site, http://edwenn.com. I also use Twitter as the main source of content on my main blog, http://edwenn.tumblr.com. I was telling Sean earlier today that the combo of Twitter & Tumblr works really well for me & I'm amazed at how many people stop by and see what I'm up to. Almost none of them will realise that the content they're reading comes from Twitter.
Because the Twitter API is totally open there are a dizzying number of Twitter clients and related apps out there. Another plus. Leave your client of choice running all day on your computer and watch the ticker tape of the - hem - Twitterverse (sorry about that) scroll past.
For some reason I find Facebook in particular creepy (not too strong a word...it freaks me out), but not Twitter. Twitter is small and simple. Super easy to understand and manage. Things not being creepy are a plus in my book.
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Finally, I like it because enough of my friends use it. Like any social networking thingy, you won't enjoy it if you're on your own.
It's not for everyone and if you already waste too much time on Facebook you may not need another web dingdong thingy in your life, but to be honest I never saw it as a time-wasting thing. You don't disappear 'into' or 'on' Twitter like you do with FB....you just use it every now and then.
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Not sure where to leave this - here or there, so, I have decided on both! http://twitter.com/terrorkitten
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Pulled by the hair I suppose... ::) I have 6 followers. It could get worse...
http://twitter.com/beckkceb
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Good morning everyone ( at least it's morning in my neck of the planet..)
I am here... http://twitter.com/filmoyster :)
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if ever a twit to tweet there was...
http://twitter.com/traskblueribbon
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I'm there, but don't see a whole lot of point to it.
http://twitter.com/rolopix
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One of the many benefits of being 50 is not having to worry about the social stigma of not being on Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, ad nauseum. Photographers shouldn't worry about this rubbish...we should all be out...TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS! :D Seriously folks, after a while all of those groups are just so much useless, silly typing. There are only so many hours in a day...use them wisely.
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One of the many benefits of being 50 is not having to worry about the social stigma of not being on Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, ad nauseum. Photographers shouldn't worry about this rubbish...we should all be out...TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS! :D Seriously folks, after a while all of those groups are just so much useless, silly typing. There are only so many hours in a day...use them wisely.
here here. I prefer FB because i can do an update if i have time. if i updated constantly, it'd suck. Actually when I think of twitter I keep thinking of this video (warning, vaguely grown up sweary)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALbH63Ali9U
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I prefer FB because i can do an update if i have time.
Twitter is the same... you update when on it.
There is this stigma that you have to be on it the whole time, telling everyone everything.
I don't work for Twitter or anything but it is very useful as someone who is into photography. I just use it as an RSS feed type thing. I barely post on it, but follow some fairly interesting photographers / photography publications - it becomes a feed that pings you when something new comes up, then you can take it or leave it depending on how busy you are.
That's my use for it, rather than telling people what I had for breakfast... actually I did that once, but that was a lapse... and a particularly impressive breakfast!
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I don't really like updating on facebook and i'd not be able to make it specific to photography because I'm not good at self-filtering like that. I'm only on facebook for social purposes for my friends who live quite far away and would otherwise "forget" to tell me about social events I might like to attend. So, I'm still not seeing the point of twitter for me.
Though i do like to giggle at the mental image of Ed being like the twitter-er in the youtube vid i posted :D
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I'm just getting started on twitter after resisting for some time:
http://twitter.com/ottokphoto
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Sorry for dredging up such an old thread, but I'm now poised to spew nonsenses all over the internet at:
http://www.twitter.com/straylightfoto (http://www.twitter.com/straylightfoto)
I'm looking at this as a way of allowing my friends to laugh at me in a more efficient manner, but there'll be some photo-related stuff along the way I'm sure...
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I occasionally twitter on http://twitter.com/snoozysuzy
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http://twitter.com/CarlRadford
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Turning this one on its head, I've pretty much given up on all of the social networking stuff nowadays. Concentrating on FW and doing less other stuff online.
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Ha, same here. Can hardly be bothered to go on Twitter. Next fad?
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I've never been into those big social networks... Filmwasters is big enough for me :)
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i quite like twitter, it's only as big as you want it to be.
http://twitter.com/sweetdistin
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I doubt (still) anyone cares what I had for breakfast, and at which Starbucks. Pass.
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I did register an age ago and had a play, but, never got to grips to it and so it just sits, as does facebook really. There is enough that I don't do already without worrying about 2 more things.
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I'm quite amused by how far behind the curve I obviously am!
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My twitter is http://twitter.com/Sunny_16 (http://twitter.com/Sunny_16). I have had it for ages, I don't really get it but mine is linked to my tumblr account so it seems like I am on there a fair bit. Maybe if I start following you lot I will understand it a bit more!
Clare x
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http://twitter.com/sjixxxy/
I also recommend reading Social Media & Photography: Observations Part 3 – Twitter (http://lapuravidagallery.com/blog/2010/08/social-media-photography-observations-part-3-–-twitter/) for those here who don't see the value of twitter.
I'm an information junkie, so I like Twitter. It is mostly an endless stream of web links for me to check out and spring ideas for writing on my own blog.
And don't overlook the seemingly mundane tweets. I've replied to a few of them with a great ripple effect afterwards. I think that for many, simple having someone pay attention to them is a very warming experience. To put something so insignificant out on the web, and actually have someone take a moment to reply makes them curious. "Who is this person who just shared their mutual love of Golden Grahams with me?" they'll say before heading off to the responders twitter page and finding the link to their website or portfolio. If they like you work, and you've given them an ounce of personal attention, you have just scored a new fan who will keep tabs on your work, and promote it for you when new stuff comes out.
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http://twitter.com/ujh . As I'm a programmer by profession it's understandable that I use Twitter regularly. However now that I'm taking care of my baby I don't really use Twitter much anymore. Just to let everyone know when I've updated my photo blog ;)
Urban
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http://www.twitter.com/jthawley