Twitter

[Edu-IT]

How many people here are on Twitter? It seems to be really popular now. Edited August 8, 2008 by Edu-IT

[EduTech]

Me! i am on there..

[russdev]

Me did you guess

 

http://www.twiiter.com/russdev and edugeek is as well htp://www.twitter.com/edugeekuk

 

Russ

[wizzard]

I use twitter, used to use it on a regular basis, then I followed too many people and got bombarded with emails

 

I don't have that much to share with other people at the moment though.

[localzuk]

I use it. Good for updating facebook status' with

[Joedetic]

I'm on there...can't garuntee the content is any good though

[webman]

Me too.

 

Also have an account for IT at the school - our helpdesk script posts to Twitter so we get updates via txt.

[GrumbleDook]

I'm on there too

 

Turned of the mobile updates and just using twitterific now.

[Joedetic]

I use twinkle as my client on my phone

[SteveBentley]

They've just announced that they can't afford to send texts to users in the UK any more. Shame that, I was planning to play with the twitter API to set up a quick a dirty "some pillock's unplugged the server and it's on UPS" notification system.

[wizzard]

They did say they were continuing to negotiate and they are going to set up individual numbers in each country.

[SteveBentley]

The individual numbers are those which you send a text to to update your status, rather than from which texts are sent.

 

I gather most of Europe has been using a +44 number, one which purports to be UK number but turns out to be in the Isle of Man, so when you text it you get charged rather than it coming out of your free text allowance.

[webman]

I take back what I said in my previous post. Thanks to them withdrawing the SMS feature, we no longer get IT Support requests via txt

[Edu-IT]

They've just announced that they can't afford to send texts to users in the UK any more. Shame that, I was planning to play with the twitter API to set up a quick a dirty "some pillock's unplugged the server and it's on UPS" notification system.

I can imagine it being quite costly.

[russdev]

@webman

 

If got rss feed then could setup tagga.com have to deal with adverts on the free version but better than nothing..

 

Russ

[russdev]

The individual numbers are those which you send a text to to update your status, rather than from which texts are sent.

 

I gather most of Europe has been using a +44 number, one which purports to be UK number but turns out to be in the Isle of Man, so when you text it you get charged rather than it coming out of your free text allowance.

 

Interestingly on o2 the txt came out of my free text's..

 

Russ

[ZeroHour]

I have added a Twitter field to "Your User Details" in the USERCP

If you add your twitter username to that then your profile will display the last 5 tweets.

My profile has this enabled now:

EduGeek.net Forums - View Profile: ZeroHour

[Edu-IT]

I have added a Twitter field to "Your User Details" in the USERCP

If you add your twitter username to that then your profile will display the last 5 tweets.

My profile has this enabled now:

EduGeek.net Forums - View Profile: ZeroHour

That's cool.

[WithoutMotive]

I have Twitter and it was all great until the LA blocked it over half term

[pete]

Penny Arcade! - Le Twittre

[WithoutMotive]

Also blocked.

[JJonas]

blocked here - didnt used to be and I was planning on using it to mass message parents - before they decided to do away with the free text service

[WithoutMotive]

Just contacted the LA to try and get Twitter unblocked.

I claimed that it was a good point of contact for other "geeks" around the country.

Unfortunately, it "contravenes our filtering policy

(RM filtering policy) and therefore remains filtered". Rubbish.

 

Still, I update via text so it's not too bad.

[GrumbleDook]

If the LA need a list of leading teachers who use it then that is easy enough to get together. In fact I will tweet about this later and see what response I get. Ok to name and shame the LA?

[KarlGoddard]

twitter is available here (Bolton).... quite shocked really