TTAC is Tweeting at Twitter (twitter.com/TTAC)
I get Twitter: it’s stalker heaven. Those who love to stalk, stalk. Those who benefit from stalking, get stalked. And those who aspire to being stalked pretend they’re being stalked. Given the onanistic undertones to this e-symbioses [sic], I’m not sure if tweeting at Twitter makes me a twat. It’s a question that leaves me pondering the possibility that my level of twatedness is independent of my tweeter (etc.). Meanwhile, I’m using Twitter as a kind of RSS feed with ‘tude tags. In addition, I’ll continue to tweet teases to tantalize TTAC’s, uh, readers. Oh, and I got the Skype thing happening. So podcasts are back. As I mentioned before, there will be some big news next month in terms of functionality. For now, a big shout out to Bertel for his contributions to the cause, and our regular writers for feeding the beast from the goodness of their heart and the ducts of their spleen. (Any tweeting advice is most appreciated.)
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At first I thought this was a dumb and too-trendy idea, but having seen the content I like it now. But, too bad you have to use their service at all, and can't have those sort of updates on your own site. Then again, I don't use it, and for those who do it likely makes more sense.
A lot of heavy tweeters use HootSuite to manage outgoing and incoming traffic. Overkill for someone like me, but you'll probably be getting a lot of followers eventually.
As an IT professional, I get smashed with these things about 2 years ahead of the general population. Oh, it's out there for everyone, but the critical mass of adoption doesn't happen for a couple of years or so after the launch and the insiders comb it over and some outsider finally deems it "cool". I was done with Twitter 2 years ago (well, I never really got started - that's just when I decided to blow it off). But interestingly - no hits from our WAN on Twitter until about 3 months ago. So I block it for our 2300 mouth breathers, errr...employees, just like Facebook, Myspace, and every other time wasting social networking site that screams "me, me, me!". But I AM thinking of changing everyone's home page to TTAC.COM (which is above most of their reading levels, but would still be helpful to quite a few), but probably not until I quit...
"Get out of here S.T.A.L.K.E.R.!" I think I have the image reference right.