Comments on: What the Plurk? Twitter this, Pownce-head!

By: martymankins

martymankins — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:37:36 +0000

whall – I’ve seen and heard your Utterz. Thanks for clarifying that Utterz is now Utterli. I’ve been tempted to try it before, but maybe I’ll have to now that you can do audio, pics, text and video. Plus, I can call while driving using my bluetooth headset since texting while driving is kind of dangerous.

By: whall

whall — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:25:39 +0000

I don't facebook, and I only do three (3) things so far: blog, twitter, and utter. Utterli (formerly Utterz) is like twitter in that you can do text microblogging, but that there are several important enhancements. A) you're not limited to ~140 characters B) you can add pictures C) you can add video D) you can add audio E) you can add all of the above within a 10 minute span to mash up a complete entry The biggest plus that Utterli has going for it is the telephone interface. I just call the Utterli number, it recognizes my caller ID and I can just create an audio post right there, or listen to others's posts. Then I can text-message a title and tags in to more define the utter.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:19:50 +0000

crys – I’ll have to look you up on Twitter to follow you. It can be confusing at first, then it gets addicting.

By: Crys

Crys — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:36:56 +0000

i’m late to the game. just joined Twitter and honestly, i have no idea what in the world i’m doing. or supposed to do. or whether i am even here right now, on the innernets.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 16:25:13 +0000

brandon – I don’t think Twitter will be losing steam anytime soon.

winter – Because I’m on Mac for all of my personal stuff, I use Twitterrific, which is pretty much the only Mac desktop tool that I know of. I also use it on my wife’s iPod touch. There’s a lot more options for Windows users. I mostly use my phone’s mobile browser for Twitter posts. It works most of the time. Manually refreshing is a pain, but sometimes it’s all I have.

By: Winter

Winter — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:33:04 +0000

I looked at Plurk. Meh. Pownce I haven’t bothered with. I wanted to try Ping but couldn’t get an invite when I wanted one. Tried Digsby which is basically the same thing, and decided, like you, to just stick with the original apps. Twitter is it for me too. Twhirl works pretty well most of the time on my PC and I use Quakk on my smart phone. The only problem I have with Quakk is that, like the Twitter website, I have to manually refresh it. I should try looking for another Windows mobile Twitter app just to make sure I’m using the best that’s available.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 07:07:38 +0000

I only use Twitter and I seriously doubt I’ll ever try the others until people start truly abandoning Twitter, but I don’t think that’s going to happen for a while.

By: martymankins

martymankins — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 18:39:33 +0000

nilsa – Well, that’s a good reason to support Twitter. And you are right about all of these being a waste of time. Now I do find some use out of them, but I have to say that I would feel lost without at least one of these. Blogging is never a waste of time for me. Sometimes Facebook can be, but i’ve learned how to curb that serive.

hilly – Twitter is a winner for me, too. But I have this compelling reason to see what the other two will do in the long term.

Blogs are where I would like to spend more of my time…. and Facebook has been nice to me lately.

By: Hilly

Hilly — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 17:25:47 +0000

Twitter for the win! I have tried all of them and decided that I love Twitter way more.

Also, I cannot keep up with more than one service. I’m too busy on Facebook and blogs, ya know.

By: Nilsa

Nilsa — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:15:48 +0000

I have to side with Twitter. Only because a guy I went to high school with is now one of their big guys. Having said that, I participate in none of the above. Complete waste of my time. And blogging and Facebook already do enough of that!