{"id":2288,"date":"2009-05-05T11:17:55","date_gmt":"2009-05-05T19:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2009-05-05T13:27:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-05T21:27:50","slug":"extra-extra-stwallskull-joins-oprah-on-twitter-may-5th-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stwallskull.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/05\/extra-extra-stwallskull-joins-oprah-on-twitter-may-5th-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"EXTRA! EXTRA! STWALLSKULL JOINS OPRAH ON TWITTER! : May 5th, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"EXTRA!<\/a><\/p>\n

STWALLSKULL JOINS OPRAH ON TWITTER!<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I tried Twitter a while ago, and didn’t really know what to do with it… I talked about Loring Park wildlife:<\/p>\n

# Saw Iron Man last night. It was surprisingly good, considering Iron Man is one of the least interesting major characters in Marvel Comics.9:05 AM May 21st, 2008 from web <\/p>\n

# In Loring Park today saw a crane trying to fish while getting harrassed by pack of typically agressive Red-Winged Blackbirds.1:04 PM May 21st, 2008 from web<\/p>\n

# Red-Winged Blackbirds are the nazi skinheads of the bird kingdom, right down to the armbands.1:04 PM May 21st, 2008 from web<\/p>\n

# Also seen in Loring Park today… mama duck with 11 ducklings! Congratulations to Mrs. Duck.1:05 PM May 21st, 2008 from web<\/p>\n

# I don’t understand the appeal of Twitter.3:18 PM Apr 16th from web\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I thought Twitter was just for people who liked to spend their time repeatedly pushing teeny-tiny cellphone buttons until they made letters. So I ignored it.<\/p>\n

Now that Oprah’s using it, though, that’s all changed. I’m all over it. <\/p>\n

You can follow me 140 characters at a time on Twitter here.<\/a> You can follow Oprah here<\/a>, so get on that already.<\/p>\n

Mostly, you will just get the same stuff you get here. Only 140 characters at a time. I’m going to keep it up until someone develops an application that posts 4 characters at a time, which is all we really need, anyhow.<\/p>\n

Thanks much to Amy<\/a> for encouraging me rethink this!<\/p>\n

(An aside… I grabbed the above creative commons licensed photo off of Flickr<\/a> to use, and after grabbing it realized it was taken by Alan Light, founding editor of the Comics Buyers guide. You can see fun old comic convention photos by Mr. Light here<\/a> and here<\/a>, and some photos he posted of cartoonists here<\/a>. I’m sure there are a lot of other interesting things to be found in his flickr sets<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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