I'll be watching you.

October 4, 2007 5:18 AM

Hey gang, what are your Twitter usernames? I want to follow more people but can't figure out how to find people who are interesting, funny and/or would link cool things. I know you would. Who are you? I'll post mine as soon as this thread doesn't get closer or deleted.
posted by sneakin to MetaFilter Gatherings at 5:18 AM (90 comments total)

It's one of the things you can have on your profile (I gots one, but I'm not interesting). Perhaps as a first step towards more things like the recent photos from all page, just a list of "all Mefites with Twitter/Wikipedia/whatever accounts" pages would be useful.
posted by Plutor at 5:24 AM on October 4, 2007

If matt or jess or cortex were feeling extra sweet and cute today, I bet they could change the beginning of this post to "Get together at Twitter?"
posted by taz at 5:30 AM on October 4, 2007 [2 favorites]

Sounds like a mission for the Wiki.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:34 AM on October 4, 2007

Sounds like a mission for pb. We should make a "all mefi users" twitter stream like the flickr stream, but if I remember correctly at the moment their API doesn't have the calls to allow that but it might by now.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 5:36 AM on October 4, 2007

Twitter + Wiki = Twiki!
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:36 AM on October 4, 2007

Or, you know, not.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 5:37 AM on October 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

This all sounds great. Until then, wtf are your usernames? I am sallyt.
posted by sneakin at 5:40 AM on October 4, 2007

Not that I'm all that funny but it's lissa_angeline.
posted by angeline at 5:43 AM on October 4, 2007

And, I mean, if you don't have a Twitter account yet, you should totally get one so that I don't have to rely solely on scrolling through MeTa threads for your funny/biting/insightful commentary!
posted by sneakin at 6:18 AM on October 4, 2007

I'm danaa - an original, funny, biting, and insightful username.
posted by bassjump at 6:21 AM on October 4, 2007

I think a compilation of metafilter friendfeeds might be more interesting than an aggregated twitter feed. I've abandoned twitter in favour of updating my Facebook status.
posted by roofus at 6:23 AM on October 4, 2007

I'm taz, though I haven't been on in over six months... but maybe I'll start up again.
posted by taz at 6:25 AM on October 4, 2007

What is this Twitter?
posted by JohnnyGunn at 6:26 AM on October 4, 2007

If you need to be encouraged to update: on a Mac, download Twitterific. If you're a PC, download Tweetr. Makes making and getting updates super easy.
posted by sneakin at 6:30 AM on October 4, 2007

"Twitter + Wiki = Twiki!"

Be-be-dee-be-deep. That's right, Buck!
posted by mr_crash_davis at 6:30 AM on October 4, 2007

Our work here is done, lil' buddy.
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken at 6:45 AM on October 4, 2007

brittanieshey on twitter, though I've been lax there lately.

roofus, there is a twitter application for facebook that allows you to update both your twitter and your facebook status at the same time.
posted by Brittanie at 6:53 AM on October 4, 2007

i'm funkaoshi on twitter.

Since none of my real life friends actually use the site, I find it pretty useless.
posted by chunking express at 7:10 AM on October 4, 2007

It's muckster, of course!
posted by muckster at 7:12 AM on October 4, 2007

twitter?

TWITTER?

what the hell is wrong with you people?

/me goes to change his twitter to only mention when he's pooping
posted by Stynxno at 7:22 AM on October 4, 2007

mattr on twitter - although I've only just discovered it again!
posted by mattr at 7:22 AM on October 4, 2007

chunking express, my problem exactly. Which is where passing off a huge network of MeFites as "friends" comes in.
posted by sneakin at 7:26 AM on October 4, 2007

Bronx.
posted by These Premises Are Alarmed at 7:27 AM on October 4, 2007

grumblebee
posted by grumblebee at 7:28 AM on October 4, 2007

me
posted by mattbucher at 7:35 AM on October 4, 2007

TWITTER. NOT JUST FOR POOPING ANYMORE.
posted by quonsar at 7:40 AM on October 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

Moi!
posted by ThePinkSuperhero at 7:46 AM on October 4, 2007 [1 favorite]

yo
posted by logicpunk at 7:57 AM on October 4, 2007

Can't I just tell you what I had for breakfast now?
posted by ND¢ at 8:06 AM on October 4, 2007

Hiya.
posted by box at 8:09 AM on October 4, 2007

danbruno

I won't link this so that I don't get chased with pitchforks by the ZOMGSELFLINK crowd, but it's best if you don't think too hard about Twitter: http://danbruno.net/2007/09/26/im-following-you/
posted by danb at 8:11 AM on October 4, 2007

q
posted by quonsar at 8:22 AM on October 4, 2007

little_ceeg
posted by inconsequentialist at 8:30 AM on October 4, 2007

I'm joethedough.
posted by Jofus at 8:32 AM on October 4, 2007

obvious.
posted by jessamyn (staff) at 8:34 AM on October 4, 2007

Isn't this already on our user pages? I guess then you'd have to go through everyone's profile checking for twittrers (twits?).
posted by ODiV at 8:37 AM on October 4, 2007

Wow, jessamyn, I think the number of followers you have makes you a bonafide Twitter celeb. You even have more than Indiana Jones and Tony Montana put together.
posted by sneakin at 8:41 AM on October 4, 2007

antoniojl
posted by armoured-ant at 8:45 AM on October 4, 2007

thatothrgirl over there, too. So much easier to just be the same thing *everywhere*.
posted by thatothrgirl at 9:26 AM on October 4, 2007

skorgu, not that I'll ever use it.
posted by Skorgu at 9:29 AM on October 4, 2007

Is this Twitter something I'd have to be a stalker to understand?
posted by PeterMcDermott at 9:33 AM on October 4, 2007

beaucoupkevin
posted by beaucoupkevin at 9:33 AM on October 4, 2007

So hey, Brittanie, I can only stay a minute, I've got to get back to my friends, but did you see those two girls fighting outside a few minutes ago? Over some guy named George, apparently.

By the way, are you and ThePinkSuperhero best friends? Because according to flickr, you both have *exactly* the same expressions.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 9:38 AM on October 4, 2007

jackmottram. Tends to be incredibly dull.
posted by jack_mo at 9:41 AM on October 4, 2007

*goes outside*
posted by everichon at 9:46 AM on October 4, 2007

kendrak, because i try to be the only one.
posted by kendrak at 9:51 AM on October 4, 2007

mullacc?
posted by mullacc at 10:06 AM on October 4, 2007

flashboy, astonishingly.
posted by flashboy at 10:41 AM on October 4, 2007

mullac, I tried to add you earlier and couldn't - it looks like you're locked or something.
posted by taz at 10:57 AM on October 4, 2007

Who's this, btw?

(Y'all can follow me if you want but I really only use Twatter for herding my friends/groupies using text messages containing many Dutch expletives.)
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:00 AM on October 4, 2007

Also, I'm disappointed the original post didn't read "Get together on Twitter?".
posted by goodnewsfortheinsane at 11:01 AM on October 4, 2007

goodnews, I'm disappointed you used the word Twatter, so I guess we're even.
posted by sneakin at 11:11 AM on October 4, 2007

I think Evan Williams has saved some key twitter names for his friends or something. If you go to http://twitter.com/evhead for example you'll see the same icon as used for http://twitter.com/metafilter.
posted by chunking express at 11:16 AM on October 4, 2007

Oh wait, I think that icon is just the default icon after the update.
posted by chunking express at 11:17 AM on October 4, 2007

Twiki + Hooverphonic = 2Wicky
posted by cowbellemoo at 11:21 AM on October 4, 2007

brownpau.
posted by brownpau at 11:25 AM on October 4, 2007

silverbees
posted by deborah at 11:45 AM on October 4, 2007

Maybe I'll get back into using it. Unsurprisingly, desjardins.
posted by desjardins at 11:50 AM on October 4, 2007

I used to think Twitter was the stupidest, most pointless thing in the world. Then last month I signed up for an account just to say I have an account.

Now I'm hooked. Damn these friggen narcissistic Web 2.0 trends!

I really need more followers, though. My Twitter username is melorama
posted by melorama at 11:57 AM on October 4, 2007

wow. twitter *REALLY* sucks. was it written in cold fusion or what?
posted by quonsar at 12:02 PM on October 4, 2007

Surprisingly I am sebas on Twitter as well.
posted by sebas at 12:37 PM on October 4, 2007

My puppet has his own twitter account: sailormartin
posted by Astro Zombie at 12:38 PM on October 4, 2007

Why isn't it "twittr?" Too many vowels. Too much Web 1.0.
posted by Mr. President Dr. Steve Elvis America at 12:54 PM on October 4, 2007

wow. twitter *REALLY* sucks. was it written in cold fusion or what?

Ruby on Rails.
posted by delmoi at 1:32 PM on October 4, 2007

Why isn't it "twittr?" Too many vowels. Too much Web 1.0.

Worse than that, it actually was called twttr when it launched.
posted by mattbucher at 2:01 PM on October 4, 2007

I used my real name.
posted by gummi at 2:26 PM on October 4, 2007

Mine is the numbers and letters of my username, in order.
posted by 31d1 at 3:09 PM on October 4, 2007

My tweets are usually very depressing.
posted by ColdChef at 3:24 PM on October 4, 2007

Isn't this already on our user pages? I guess then you'd have to go through everyone's profile checking for twittrers (twits?).

It is on our profiles, assuming we put it there. And I think the needing to search is a good thing. That way anyone who actually cares about what I write can go find more easily enough, and anyone who doesn't doesn't need to even think about it (and adding people just because they posted in this one thread seems kind of random to me). But then maybe I'm in the minority in that I look up profiles of people I'm interested in?

(just to clarify, I haven't been adding people to follow because I have very limited and sporadic computer access these days, not because I do or don't care)
posted by shelleycat at 3:42 PM on October 4, 2007

I'm brittp.
posted by strangeleftydoublethink at 4:18 PM on October 4, 2007

huzzah.
posted by Phire at 4:57 PM on October 4, 2007

me3dia. Like you care.
posted by me3dia at 6:19 PM on October 4, 2007

marvinthecat. What a surprise. Maybe I'll have to start using Twitter again.
posted by MarvinTheCat at 6:28 PM on October 4, 2007

megvsmeg. pownce pownce pownce pownce.
posted by unknowncommand at 7:11 PM on October 4, 2007

I don't have an account, but I pooped earlier anyway
posted by moift at 7:35 PM on October 4, 2007

I'm still waiting to find out why so many people think twitter is such a good thing. Is there a soma drug injected straight into the amygdala on signup?
posted by peacay at 7:58 PM on October 4, 2007

WendellWit because I didn't jump on this bandwagon soon enough to be THE Wendell. Actually, I didn't jump, I was pushed.
posted by wendell at 8:00 PM on October 4, 2007

I just came back from north Austin, and had some left-over chicken for dinner. Then I typed this message.

Who needs this Twittr thing, anyway?
posted by Devils Rancher at 8:20 PM on October 4, 2007

I'm here.

not that anyone here really knows me, but, you know, just in case you're curious
posted by mosessis at 9:28 PM on October 4, 2007

Well, Devils Rancher, you definitely have to enable Twitter on your phone for it to make any sort of sense. Still, I'm pretty sure nobody needs it.

It's (sort of) fun anyway.
posted by muckster at 9:34 PM on October 4, 2007

If anyone's still here, how does the mobile phone feature work internationally? It looks like it's set up to work from the US, UK, and maybe Australia. I tried to add an international number (Mexico) and it automatically wanted me to text a UK number, which would be much more expensive than texting a US number for me. Does anyone know a work around?
posted by mosessis at 9:34 PM on October 4, 2007

I'm TimCheese, for that is my name.
posted by triv at 5:16 AM on October 5, 2007

Well, it's really hard to guess my Twitter name from my MeFi id... it's karmakaze. Wacky, I know.
posted by Karmakaze at 5:40 AM on October 5, 2007

One guess.
posted by langeNU at 6:31 AM on October 5, 2007

muckster, I don't really think that is true. I don't have it enabled on my phone, because all the twit msgs at random hours of the days (and nights) (okay, *esp* nights) is a bit annoying. I only use it thru the web and with twitterific and its just as good that way, too.
posted by thatothrgirl at 7:14 AM on October 5, 2007

I am disturbed by the idea of threads getting closer, like, creeping up on you in the night.

I am there on Twitter as I am here on MetaFilter, but less so, kind of.
posted by chrismear at 7:32 AM on October 5, 2007

I turned off notifications on my phone unless they are direct messages. Being able to send twitters via SMS is handy however. Well, "handy" may be an exaggeration, as twttr is pretty useless.
posted by chunking express at 7:46 AM on October 5, 2007

presta.
posted by coolhappysteve at 11:42 AM on October 5, 2007

my Twitter
posted by melissa at 12:41 PM on October 5, 2007

me@twttr
posted by lodev at 3:53 PM on October 6, 2007