Been playing about with this for a while now and apart from reading a fickbook version of Brant Richards life, are there any other things out there worth following? I was thinking along the lines of endurance MTB races across South America – that sort of thing………………or do any of you on hwere have suitably intersting lives worth following?

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Simples.

Other than that, Twitter really is the most banal thing out there, IMO. This is a good read, from Matt Rudd;
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/men/article5901237.ece

While the 5m-plus other non-famous twitterers waste their lives telling each other what they’re doing every second of the day, I recommend you steer clear. Go for a walk. An actual walk, not a cyber one. Look at the trees. Smell the flowers.

It’s a stalker’s paradise.

Go for a walk. An actual walk, not a cyber one. Look at the trees. Smell the flowers.

My boss might notice if I did that.

Yeah, Twitter is quite pathetic. I’m struggling to see how it will actually last like myspace/facebook/etc.

If you can’t see it lasting then you aren’t looking very hard.

It’s hit critical mass in a couple of years and has spawned the likes of yammer for enterprise micro-blogging.

FWIW, I reckon Myspace is already dying and Facebook will start losing market share to smaller more concentrated apps like twitter. Just a hunch though.

To answer the OP, the STW collective may be interested in

http://twitter.com/singletrackworld
http://twitter.com/coticltd
http://twitter.com/shedfire
http://twitter.com/18bikes
http://twitter.com/lancearmstrong
http://twitter.com/taylorphinney
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Yeah, Twitter is quite pathetic.

No more pathetic than posting on here eh?

I couldn’t really see the point at first but now……….I’m aslightly more enlightened 😐

captain – compare the bloody merecat 😕

No more pathetic than posting on here eh?

Wholly different IMO.

FWIW, I reckon Myspace is already dying and Facebook will start losing market share to smaller more concentrated apps like twitter. Just a hunch though.

Have you seen what Facebook has just changed the first page you see after logging in, into? Twitter with flickr photos on the right hand side.

There’s plenty of interesting things to do on Twitter. Try a search for a topic that interests you, and get discussing things with people … just like on here, expect with a much wider audience.

richpips – Member
Yeah, Twitter is quite pathetic.
No more pathetic than posting on here eh?

Indeed not. But somehow the “conversations” are slightly more engaging on here!

FWIW, I reckon Myspace is already dying
The music industry would beg to differ

Indeed not. But somehow the “conversations” are slightly more engaging on here!

More engaging on Twitter imo, as you can choose exactly who you wish to interact with.

But somehow the “conversations” are slightly more engaging on here!

I would have to agree. For example, on here one can prate on at length on any given topic without a need to worry about a character limit. This has led to some very involved and involving discussions on a very wide range of topics.

Alistair Humphreys, who rode his bike round the world and then wrote a couple of cracking books about it and who is preparing to be part of the first unsupported human-powered return journey to the South Pole, is about to walk across India. He’ll be updating his blog as he goes, but is on Twitter and has used it in the past to live tweet mini-expeditions so I’d expect that to be updated.

I struggle to understand why some celebs are so keen to twitter so much – esp Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry – what do they get out of it? Searching for keywords and then trying to chat with someone who’s been twittering about it might be interesting….or it might that be considered stalking? Some people have started following me and I have no idea who they are or what they want from me – I don’t even twitter much as not really into it.

or it might that be considered stalking?

How silly!

If you use certain words in your tweets, you tend to get random follower. Try mentioning ‘diet’ and I guarantee you’ll get some randoms.

I have considered signing up so that I can twitter about the birth of our baby.. so that all who are interested but unable to be present can follow it.

@mudshark I believe that the BBC may have coerced some people to try out Twitter as they have had a massive push in the last couple of months. Stephen Fry however has been a self-confessed internet geek for as long as I’ve been on the internet (around 16 years) and I recall him being evangelistic about services back in those days. He was on Twitter a long time before the BBC knew what it was, is my point.

As well as helping us pass away boring commutes and quiet office time by allowing us to witter our nonsense out in a way that friends can ignore without seeming rude, twitter is also useful for news headlines:

http://twitter.com/bbcnews
http://twitter.com/channel4news
http://twitter.com/guardiantech

There are also similar feeds depending on your more specific interests. A lot of special interest magazines are using it, go search for yours.