Twitter is a microblogging service where people answer the question "What are you doing?" via 140-character messages from their cellphone, laptop or desktop. You can select the messages (called "tweets") that you find useful, amusing, or both. Here is the 40h edition of
My Twitter Favorites (the oldest post is at the bottom, the newest at the top): Micro-blogging on Twitter is easy, fun and can be very useful and educational if you follow/subscribe to interesting people.
pyknosis I'm thinking I'll probably scrap my blog altogether and try a low-barrier-to-posting format such as that which tumblr offers. 6:21 PM Feb 7th from twitterrific
jack @imogenheap Thank you for making it a part of your day! Twitter is simply what people make of it, and they've made an awesome thing. 8:54 PM Feb 6th from web in reply to imogenheap
timoreilly The echo chamber: Only 13% of posts at 10 top blogs contain original reporting http://is.gd/iGcA (via @jayrosen_nyu @simonowens) 5:23 PM Feb 6th from twhirl
Pogue The introvert engineer looks at his shoes when he's talking to you. The extrovert looks at YOUR shoes. 5:19 PM Feb 6th from twitterrific
progressnotes The brain burns about 20 watts, or 15 Calories per hour (http://tinyurl.com/bftpt7), whether you're doing calculus or watching TV. 5:05 PM Feb 6th from web
zappos At #TED conference, Twitter CEO @ev is talking about twittering. And now I am twittering about him talking. 4:47 PM Feb 6th from web
loic "when you give people better ways to share information great things happen" @ev #ted 4:47 PM Feb 6th from twhirl
ev Wow, it's bright up here, and lots of people are staring at me. (Giving my talk at #TED.) 4:42 PM Feb 6th from Tweetie
pkedrosky through some kind of strange personal migratory osmosis, have found myself sitting at a table with fellow cynic travellers. huge relief. 12:56 PM Feb 6th from twhirl- loic there are rarely moments when everything I focus on starts to make sense and I just had one of these moments 11:51 AM Feb 6th from twhirl
grahamwalker 13 hours of sleep makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. 10:15 AM Feb 6th from web
Pudliszek "A website offering the chance to get a tan from computer screens has been revealed as a hoax." http://tinyurl.com/cxcm6w hahaha 9:31 AM Feb 6th from TweetDeck
medicalstudent A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort - Herm Albright 9:30 AM Feb 6th from TweetDeck
Scobleizer Yo, @Pogue you are being bagged on for not following more because that's not nice. :-) (Learn to use grouping in TweetDeck to follow more). 8:52 AM Feb 6th from web
chrisseper 
Reading my 5yr old's report card/progress report. He's my son. How can he be so good in math? 8:11 AM Feb 6th from txt
andrewspong med bloggers, med carnival & grand rounds organizers: 'you are the scholarly publishing underground' Do you agree? Ready to go overground? 6:02 AM Feb 6th from TweetDeck
ColonelTribune Today's temperature will go up to 36 degrees today. It's a heat wave! http://www.chicagotribune.c... 6:00 AM Feb 6th from web- jack "Hello? Honey, yeah listen: I'm surrounded by people from San Francisco and I'm not sure what to do." 9:09 PM Feb 5th from web
- Pogue I've always theorized that anyone who claims to be following 100's or 1000's of people on Twitter can't possibly be reading it all. True? 7:38 PM Feb 5th from twitterrific
- pyknosis "Non-diagnostic; request more tissue" is not something you like to see a pathologist write on their report of a brain biopsy. 3:42 PM Feb 5th from web
You can read more here:
A Doctor's Opinion: Why I Started Microblogging on Twitter and
visit my account at
Twitter/AllergyNotes.
If you are included in this post but would like to have your tweet removed for any reason, please email me and will comply with your request the same day.
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