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twhirl | a twitter client: Apr 15, 11:18am 17 reviews internet-tools, social, blogging
http://www.twhirl.org/; Tweeting Thamus gives Twitter a twhirl For a while I have been tempted to follow the example of the other Luddite curmudgeons here and slam the ass off Twitter as a futile exercise in pointless triviality gone mad. As the Twitter review by Stumbler Tone the Moan says: "A service that allows you to inform the world when you brush your teeth, which train you are on, and other such important stuff is really needed... What a waste of my life and yours. It's shit like this that makes me consider going back to the abacus." Agreed! And yet, and yet... Well, there's still no fool like an old fool, and it's hardly a mark of maturity to scorn everything the young find interesting without giving it a whirl. Or in this case, a twhirl. Having found this nifty little client called twhirl that lets you post to Twitter from the desktop (multiple accounts even), I've decided to see what all the buzz is about tweeting, which is what I'm told Twitters do. Yes there's the obvious inanity - "I just got up; I'm having a pee now; I'm eating an apple; I'm noticing already how banal my life is, so now I'm hanging myself." But it seems there could also be a challenge here for us writing types - can you find something interesting to communicate, and say it in 140 characters? Would these snippets accumulate into a useful writer's notebook, enhanced by the self-discipline of just keeping it going? Could we make Lemurs' short stories even shorter? Anyway, I killed an idle half-hour at the airport and signed up. I can't claim I've got the hang of it, or the point of it, or even the feel of it, other than feeling like an official Twit. If any of my Stumbler friends have this dirty little secret and are also Twitters, please join ("follow") me via the link below for the experiment. It's lonely out there talking nonsense to myself. About twhirl - it's a snazzy application like an instant messenger and makes tweeting quite painless. You need to download two small things - Adobe Air, which it runs on (link is on the twhirl page), and twhirl itself. Install Adobe Air first, then twhirl, and off you go. [Then join me at Thamus the Twit] FOOTNOTE: Thanks to you speedy first responders, especially my dear friend Melluciana from Brazil who was a fast first. I am already surprised at the inventive posts of my few followees. Fascinating. I'll report back in a month on this experiment. It is already showing what the super intelligent and friend-loyal Stumbleupon community does best. Curioser and curioser.