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I know of a number of members here who have signed up for Twitter and 'tweet' ... indeed I was just looking at a picture of an 08 shunter posted by one member, reading another's rail mileage from yesterday, and musing at a third preparing his allotment for this year's crop.

I'm "@wellho" and you can see my latest tweets at http://twitter.com/wellho .   Anyone else like to share their handles?

Rarely do much tweeting, but I'm @JustinMcAree.

I'm on it most days.

@fgwoll1e

I have a personal one @georgehthomas and also run @thebunkline

I believe I follow both of them :P

I must admit I have never explored Twitter much - must be my advancing years.  When I first looked it seemed to be full of trivia and not for me but perhaps it is time to take another look.

I am @mookiemoo2403

I tend to follow more than tweet

my 08 and ollies mileage @relex109  :D

I've been putting off signing up to Twitter, but took the plunge today: @brucebolt

and im your first follower ..... beware i post mainly a load of rubbish .... in line with 90% of twitter lol

you can find me on twitter @coolsecretspy, i don't really tweet that much as i mainly spend more time on Facebook. but i am trying to post on there more than i do at the moment.

i had and account for over a year before i actually used it, i have to admit i prefer facebook but now and again for news its really good, the japan earthquake is one example... updates game threw as they happened

i followed you btw

I'm @radioactivshark ;D

I haven't quite got to grips with using twitter yet, but slowly getting there ;D

I don't get it.  What am I supposed to do with Twitter, other than read up on what the newspapers are gagged from publishing?!  Even Halifax (the bank) started following me today!?!! 

i have to be honest, if you use it in the way it was designed for its useless... in reality its an advertising site that allows spamming, the only decent use that i have found for it is gaining info on current events without relying on more traditional news vendors

Thanks for your restraint, everyone!

Please bear with me, for a few minutes, while I separate those latest posts relating to a sporting personality from all the previous ones, which actually formed the basis of an interesting discussion of the original topic here!

CfN.  :-X



Edit Note: Thanks again - several posts, which refer to a specific legal case, have now been moved to our 'frequent posters' board: please do continue to discuss the merits (or not!) of 'tweet' in general terms here! ;D

If anyone is now following @bookcascade and wondering who the heck this is, please don't panic!  I've gone and changed my username to promote a website that I'm launching.

+1 follower.

Not sure I'll be needing the services of bookcascade.com though.  ;)

hope noone minds me dragging this up again, but im clearing out my twitter list (over the years have been abit too happy clicking that follow button) so i will be unfollowing everyone and restarting from scratch, if your names is already on this thread i will re add you....if your on there and havnt yet posted your username please do so and i will follow you

Well my post in this topic has me as @fgwoll1e but it's actually @fgwollie now - no idea why I ever did the 1 thing aha :)

Well, I tweet as @bromptonrail - nothing if not consistent eh!

Don't tweet very often, just when the mood takes me.

i've finally given up on Facebook... i used to use it all the time up until the point were the people i'm friends with at the moment stopped posting as frequently or were posting anything worth reading. for this reason i have now moved over to Twitter where i am now so much more active, as there is always tons going on there and so much interesting things being talked about/trending. over all i am beggining to love Twitter more than Facebook.  ;D

Let me see if I have this right: the only time you ever use your shift key is when you type the words 'Facebook' and 'Twitter'? FFS...

No, that'll be the autocorrect on my phone doing that, of it annoys you i will simply fix it for you :P

Have to say, it's a very poor bit of software if it can't also auto correct the start of a sentence, the first person singular and it's associated contractions such as 'I've', 'I'm' etc.

I guess the developers see it as more important that social media sites get their capital letter (despite both facebook and twitter's logos being lower case) than ensuring decent grammar.


Right. bignosemac is off to read some more Lynne Truss.  ;)

Mine auto capitalises the first letter of eash sentence, and even knows the words in the middle that need capital letters.
A problem I've noticed is if you write the word ill it changes it to I'll. Hell becomes he'll or vice versa. The auto correct bloody annoys me, some of the sms messages I've sent have been down right ridiculous when I haven't paid attention to the autocorrect does!

My iPhone 4 running the latest software version does all of those auto corrections although sometimes it can be a nuisance.  If you are not feeling so well ill becomes I'll - so it isnt always a bonus.   ;D

And just for fun, here's what happens when auto correct goes seriously wrong.

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/

A word of warning. Put down any you drinks you may be holding, before reading.  ;) :D ;D

Yeah, I know damnyouautocorrect quite well, I've been on therea few times and read some of the fails on there while drinking... Never again will I drink while reading damnyouautocorrect.com again :D