wiganvillain Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Sparey, Kidlewis, Laura and Trim have a new follower as long as you don't block me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganvillain Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Stato's about to get a request as well Oops my Twitter alter ego id macthevillan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted November 4, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted November 4, 2009 ah didn't know about the depressive bit .. explains it a bit more now he didn't strike me as the depressive type He's fairly reknowned for it. He did a couple of shows a while back on the illness, and that showed both sides of him, the side that goes mad with happiness walking about an Apple store buying up everything new, and the side that was sat feeling low in a car not wanting to really do anything. He famously disappeared contemplating suicide in the early 90s after a play he was in bombed. He ran off to Belgium IIRC after being sat in his garage considering starting up the engine of his car.The play didn't bomb; he just got stage fright and did a runner without telling anybody. I exchanged a few emails with him around about that time. He came out with one witticism (which I've now forgotten) to which I replied: "That's very good - you should be on the stage". I think that was the end of the correspondence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganvillain Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 I exchanged a few emails with him around about that time. He came out with one witticism (which I've now forgotten) to which I replied: "That's very good - you should be on the stage". I think that was the end of the correspondence. How to win friends and influence people Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFCLaura Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Tweet Deck for the PC, why have I not downloaded this before, I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted November 4, 2009 Share Posted November 4, 2009 Tweet Deck for the PC, why have I not downloaded this before, I love it. it's no problem Laura Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevMur Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 http://twitter.com/kevnmur Just getting into it tbh, not sure which way it's going to go. Was following Donnie Wahlberg for a few days, had to delete that sh*t, verbal diarrhea. That said, I am full of crap too. Feel free to follow if you're easily bored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trimandson Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Following the lot of you (although not D1 as he's yet to reveal his twit id) @mrtrim ere innit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NulliSecundus Posted November 5, 2009 Share Posted November 5, 2009 Following all those who have put their ID on here. @tomcoe is mine. I will hardly ever post mind you! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidlewis Posted November 6, 2009 Share Posted November 6, 2009 sorry if you felt spammed by me (if you follow me) because Question Time was on and This Week too. I think my own personal input will be my tune of the day and my joke of the day. Also I am composing some comical tracks in a Bill Bailey type of way however I am not as good a pianist as him, but hope the comedy will be a little closer to his quality. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiganvillain Posted November 10, 2009 Share Posted November 10, 2009 Thanks all for letting me join in. Believe it or not Stan Collymore is following me, christ knows what he expects Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I've signed up @alexwier My tweets will mainly be about Villa, beer, women and holidays! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaEire Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Following you guys now. I'm @aido1980 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YLN Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Respect for the VT populous -20% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevMur Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 This dude come up with some funny sh*t http://twitter.com/shitmydadsays Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leviramsey Posted November 15, 2009 VT Supporter Share Posted November 15, 2009 Admit it, Twitter is useless Not long ago, Meghan McCain, maverick progeny and rising media star (because, no doubt, of her impressive intellectual gifts), posted a cleavage-intense picture of herself on her Twitter account. "For years," the 25-year-old would lament later, "I have struggled to accept the fact that the way I look in a tank top comes off more 'sexual' than a flat-chested woman." First, let's all agree on the obvious: A nation that fails to deal with the deep-seated struggles of busty young blondes is a nation that fails us all. Then feel free to wonder why an intelligent young woman feigns astonishment when her candid shot creates a hubbub online after she disseminates the shot to 76,000 followers. Isn't that the point of posting on Twitter? Highlighting everything? Even your socio-political thoughts on cup sizes? Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me. Pressed by personal, professional, and cultural forces, I sporadically deploy short missives for fear of becoming one of those cantankerous technophobes who is too dense to recognize the miracle of letting "followers" know he hates raisins or that he loved the finale of Mad Men. Now not only am I expected to transmit this minutiae mere seconds after I think it but also some 20-year-old in California has decreed that I must do it within the brevity of 140 characters. This need for conciseness, in fact, induces normally articulate friends of mine to write in Prince lyrics—recklessly using "2" and "4" and "U" as words. To this point, I've found Twitter so aggressively worthless that I was forced to research exactly what I am missing. In the process, I stumbled across a useful New York Times tech column penned by David Pogue that clarified all. The headline read, "Twitter? It's What You Make It." In summation, like your beloved pet rock, Twitter is useful only in your imagination. Despite this, I can't begin to add up how many times, as a member of the media, I've been instructed that I need to tweet by people who have absolutely no clue what tweeting means. How Twitter helps journalism is yet to be determined. But the deepest mystery of Twitter is why celebrities and elected officials take part. After all, we all know they can't write their own lines. Now, admittedly, Twitter can be entertaining on occasion, as it turns out that 140 characters offers a great chance to be misunderstood—and an even greater chance one will expose his inner troglodyte. In these past few weeks alone, a clueless Colorado state Sen. Dave Schultheis tweeted, "Don't for a second, think Obama wants what is best for U.S. He is flying the U.S. Plane right into the ground at full speed. Let's Roll." NFL running back Larry Johnson took time out from his busy day of stinking at his job to ridicule his coach and question the heterosexuality (crudely) of a critical tweeter. He lost his job. So you see, though only a reported 11 percent of Twitter's users are actually teenagers, nearly everyone who participates may end up sounding like one. (Young people have the good sense to head to MySpace, where they freely can post sexually provocative pictures—with music!) I certainly have no cleavage to ratchet up my "follower" numbers. As a blogging, Facebooking, texting American who values the explosion of democratic user-generated Internet content and its contribution to intellectual debate, political activism, government transparency, entertainment, access to data, and community, I can safely say I still see no reason to tweet. Naturally, this phenomenon is growing by approximately 1 million percent yearly. Maybe this is just where I get left behind by technology. Still, I'm sticking with Google's CEO, Eric Schmidt, who called Twitter the "poor man's e-mail system"—and considering e-mail is completely free and allows you to form complete sentences, that's not exactly a ringing endorsement. For the interested, here is the pic Miss McCain uploaded that caused such a stir: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Should be called Twatter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVFC-Prideofbrum Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Should be called Twatter I bet that took a while to think of :winkold: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Should be called Twatter I bet that took a while to think of :winkold: Yeah, 4 pages of this thread (first time I'd looked at it) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b23avfc Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 In the argument about twitter's role in journalism and media... I learned of mj's turn and subsequent death.. FIRST.. through twitter. And that's the same with other news stories, big and small. It's a one stop shop for following news and media sources/references you're into/ keeping track of businesses and media people you're interested in/ simple marketing. It's not for you if you're not into any of that. And usually that results in the nonesense people give it. For the record I thought it was pointless at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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