Comments on: Follow-up: Why programmers should twitter

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:54:30 +0000

Thanks Chris.

I was surprised how many devs just thought it was all link-sharing and meaningless banter. I’m really hoping to kill that misconception.

By: Chris Coyier

Chris Coyier — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 04:20:44 +0000

I found the thread on DZone fricking hilarious. People are bitching about not having time or desire for something “frivolous” like Twitter…. while they are participating in a comment thread on a social news site. I believe that’s a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

By: Maxim Gubin

Maxim Gubin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:32:34 +0000

If you’re interesting in finding people that share same interests as you, you may want to look for the topics that interest you. Then you can see what other people say about those topics and if you deem the person’s post interesting, then you could add him/her to your network.
You could do the same by putting specific topics into your posts, so that other people can easily find those.
Just prepend a # sign in front of the topic in your message and you’re good to go.
Then you can retweet other people’s interesting posts, and some people retweet my posts. That way if you have something interesting that you said, the word can spread around.
Retweeting is just putting RT in front of the message.
And of course you can also mention other fellow twitters in your posts by using the @ in front of their name.

So these are just some of the ways you can better utilize twitter.

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 15:09:15 +0000

I generally find people in a specific area through their blog. If you were to blog about Drupal yourself it’d help because Drupal devs are more likely to follow you or even find you if you haven’t found them.

If you can’t find enough blogs there is surely a Google Group or forum you can find.

By: Missy Tungusta

Missy Tungusta — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:05:30 +0000

I just don’t get it. How on earth do you find, say Drupal developers on this twitter deal, and quote “get involved”? I have tried sending out questions related to Drupal but so far after months of trying, I have gotten zip. What am I doing wrong?

By: Joval Dumra

Joval Dumra — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 14:02:53 +0000

Twitter is the CB radio of this generation. A gimmicky, fad where 99.9 percent of the traffic is garbage and a waste of time. Can you say “short attention span”.

By: Eric Wendelin

Eric Wendelin — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:38:56 +0000

“Outside of networking and casual conversation?”

No. You see the networking itself is the biggest benefit. Getting to know other programmers and crowd-sourcing your endeavors. Ideas. Opinions.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:08:58 +0000

I keep trying to comprehend why Twitter has gained any sort of popularity at all and I can never see any reason. I can honestly say that I have never seen a single piece of useful information broadcasted in a tweet, with the single exception of links to a interesting blog posts perhaps, which is a moot point since I tend to get those links from the different news aggregators I visit throughout the day. Am I missing something? Is there any use for twitter whatsoever outside of networking and casual communication?