So, I got a twitter (Algeh_T)

[algeh]

I gave up and got a twitter account because I realized that I had no current contact info for some of my friends and it seemed less obnoxious than facebook (among other things, I generally click out of a sign-up process if it requires me to specify a gender). If you're interested, I'm on there as Algeh_T .

(I have no idea why anyone else would want the username Algeh - I use it as a nickname because it's what I got when a non-native speaker of English misunderstood and tried to write down my initials "L.J." as a name once. I'd just decided to go by my initials instead of my name because I was tired of the "Linnea. L - I - N - N - E - A. Thank you. No, it's not Hawaiian. It's Swedish and traditional in my family." speech that I have to give pretty much every time I introduce myself. Unfortunately, the first person I tried "L.J." on was a native German speaker, and I went back to the Linnea Speech after that debacle.)

Right now, I'm planning to import my tweets daily into LJ and then make those entries private a day or so later when I get around to it. I'd prefer to make them private immediately (I'm importing them for back-up reasons), but LJ doesn't seem to let you set a minimum security just for those posts. I am not impressed, but I suppose if LJ were being impressive I wouldn't have needed to get a twitter in the first place.

Comments

[duncanmac.livejournal.com]

I know that feeling. :-/

I too am unimpressed with LJ, due to the problem about accessing it via WiFi or any other wireless method. [There are a lot of people, particularly in the U.S. and Canada, who have to rely on a wireless link just to get to the Internet At All. Given the cost of stringing wire/cable links and other issues, the Third World also generally may rely on wireless links.]

I'm not on Twitter yet, but I also don't have a cell phone ... and will not get one till I get a stable job. Whenever that happens. :-/

[algeh]

Do they not have inexpensive pre-paid cell phones in Canada? Here in Oregon, I have one from T-Mobile where I paid $30 for the phone and $100 for 1000 minutes that don't expire for a year. I use it so I have a number to put on business cards and such for my pet-sitting and math tutoring.

I don't read twitter from my phone (since text messages cost ten cents each and my phone doesn't do web browsing) although I do have it set up so I can post to twitter from it if I want to. I just use the website when I'm online anyway. Two of my good friends no longer bothered to update LJ when they move but post on twitter regularly, so it seemed like time to get an account.