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Celebrities on Twitter
For the most part I couldn’t care less what celebrities do. I despise celebrity gossip shows. I do think it’s cool that celebrities are starting to use Twitter though. Just something about communicating with average people. Not that I put celebrities on a pedestal or anything, I just think it’s cool. I have been following a few for years, but it seems like every day a new celebrity hops on the Twitter bandwagon. Many celebrities are pretty lame on twitter and only tweet to advertise what ever project they are working on. Lately I started following Adam Savage (@donttrythis), Ashton Kutcher (@aplusk), Demi Moore (@mrskutcher), Jimmy Fallon (@jimmyfallon), and Soleil Moon Frye (@moonfrye). They are all good twitterers. You can find a list of celebrities on twitter at celebritytweet.com. Most of them are lame, but there are a few good ones in there.
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Tweet From Your Dashboard
It’s been months since I have actually “used” twitter. I take that back, I read my tweets on my phone through Twitter, but that is all. I use Ping.fm to do my posting to Twitter, and use FriendFeed to read all my Tweets on my computer.
For the longest time I have been using a Ping.fm gadget on my Google homepage to do my posting. I always have a browser open, and my homepage is just a few click away.
Well, yesterday I was getting sick of those “few clicks”, and made it even easier to post to Twitter.
This trick can only me done on a Mac. I am using the Web Clip feature of Safari. It’s simple, just click on the Web Clip button and select the portion of the Ping.fm site that you need to make your posts, click add, and bingo, you have a Dashboard Widget for Tweeting, or posting to whatever social network you want to post to.
I seldom use the Dashboard in OS X, and always forget about the Web Clip feature. Now all I have to do to tweet is hit F7 and start typing away.
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Moved from Twitter to FriendFeed
Some social networks I get, others I don’t. I never could understand MySpace or Facebook. Twitter on the other hand, I fell in love with it right away, and it sucks when it, or some of it’s features goes down. FriendFeed was a service that I understood, but it always seemed to cluttery and noisy for me. This past weekend I just got fed up with all of Twitters problems and I decided to take the plunge to FriendFeed full time. I am really starting to like FriendFeed, and the cool thing is that it actually works.
A few weeks ago Dave Slusher blogged about his process of moving from Twitter to FriendFeed. I pretty much followed his plan. I used Kreg Steppe’s PHP script to help find my Twitter friends on FriendFeed, and then I just made imaginary friends for my Twitter friends that weren’t on FriendFeed. Then I signed up for a TwitterFeed account, and am using it to send my FriendFeed updates back to twitter. It took a while to get all my friends over, but I am really loving FriendFeed now.
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Twitter Updates off Main Page
So I was getting a little sick of all the “Twitter Update” posts clogging up my blog. They are still coming in, but they will no longer be on the front page. Thanks to Becky for pointing me in the right direction. It was simple. I just had to put this code into my home.php file:
You just have to change the number to whatever category you want skipping the main page. Now if you care about my Twitter updates you can check them out over there —->, and if you don’t care you won’t see them.