Tag Archive 'Twitter'

Birthday and social media…

Many thanks to Sally, Em, Sarah, Caroline, Ray, Liz, Chester, Karen, Roberto, Ellee, Tony & Lorraine for coming to my little birthday party organised by Sally to see Romeo & Juliet tonight at Downing College. It was a great performance and had the big audience totally spell bound. All 13 of us enjoyed Emilys freshly [...]

Rats force Domino’s closure

Sat update
Cambridge, Hills Road,  Domino’s Pizza place has just been forced to close because of a complaint from Rebecca Jane B? which the council inspectors upheld:-
“An infestation of rats in the premises resulting in a significant risk of contamination to foodstuffs and a risk to public health. In addition, there is an accumulation of dirt [...]

Gmail and Twitter?

Twitter is just so useful. I noticed that my gmail wasn’t working online at all. In these cases its usual for me to start kicking the computer/firefox/router
But now with Twitscoop in my sidebar all is revealed:-

and looking at the time line of twitters mentioning ‘gmail’ is quite cool:-
This Twitter just made me laugh:-

Phew panic [...]

Stephen Fry goes nuclear.

Followcost is a great little application which works out the cost of following celebrities on Twitter. Here is the cost of following @stephenfry
It strikes me that celebrities are caught in a cleft stick, someone as popular as Stephen Fry has over 208,000 followers(The old Radio Luxenbourg radio frequency for us nerds and is [...]

Texting on Facebook but not Twitter

Now Twitter have raised an additional $35 million maybe they will re-instate texting updates here in the UK.
If you are on O2 here in the UK then Facebook already allows this to happen on your status updates.
Here is a snippet between Emily and I from today.
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Geoff and his Twitterings

After reading the history of Twitter over at @Dom’s blog  140 characters and how it was conceived “We happened to be on top of the slide on the north end of South Park.
It was sunny and brisk. We were eating Mexican food. His idea made us
stop eating and start talking.”
Thought I would check out my [...]

Twitter facts

Interesting wordle of all my twitters, compiled at tweetstats,  over the past 26 months at the rate of 3.9 tweets per day
Thanks to Sally for the heads up!
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The little eager stream

The little eager stream
Originally uploaded by geofones
Sally and I passed this little bridge on the way home from seeing cloudgazer.
It immediately reminded me of my Uncle Les’s humanist funeral. Where his eulogy made reference to life being like a stream. Starting out as a tiny spring then playfully growing into a larger stream rushing with [...]

Twitter beaching the whale

Very bad news from Twitter,. Twitters USP here in the UK was the ability to send & receive tweets by SMS (Text messaging) as of today, with no warning whatsoever, they have cut of receiving updates here in the UK by text.
Their so called UK number, actually its a number based in the Isle of [...]