I joined Twitter
By CraftyCorner
@CraftyCorner (5600)
United States
May 8, 2009 6:01pm CST
Out of sheer, bashing, crashing, snoring boredom I joined Twitter. It's a strange community. There is a lot of snore chatter, but a lot of relevant hiding in the snore. Each comment is only allowed to be about 140 characters long which includes spaces and punctuation, which would kick most MyLot posters out by default. (MyLot actively discourages 'chatspeak' where Twitter, being so tight on space, demands it. I'm bilingual, I can do both. I generally 'chatspeak' when my corporal tunnel syndrome bites or when chat space is at a real premium.
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@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
9 May 09
I keep starting to do that and then more tasks show up and I end up doing those instead. I will never get around to it at this rate. When you get used to Having to write 500 words, it is hard to remember to keep it down to 140 characters.lol
Shalom~Adoniah
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
9 May 09
I'm bilingual (or bitextual
) and know how to write in both text speak and formal language. I can be very wordy when appropriate and very 'MS-speak' for Twitter's compact space.
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Twitter's design is mainly for the texting feature of telephones on the run and not really for the computer. You can pretty much tell what a website wants by looking at a website's design. Here at MyLot, you have large windows for writing comments in, and on the side, they actively have "Please be as descriptive as possible." notes. There are also 'grammer nazi's'
although that is not encouraged as MyLot has a large number of 'English as second, third, so on language speakers'. It's actually against the rules to pick on other's grasp of English.
) and know how to write in both text speak and formal language. I can be very wordy when appropriate and very 'MS-speak' for Twitter's compact space.
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Twitter's design is mainly for the texting feature of telephones on the run and not really for the computer. You can pretty much tell what a website wants by looking at a website's design. Here at MyLot, you have large windows for writing comments in, and on the side, they actively have "Please be as descriptive as possible." notes. There are also 'grammer nazi's' although that is not encouraged as MyLot has a large number of 'English as second, third, so on language speakers'. It's actually against the rules to pick on other's grasp of English.
@GardenGerty (169591)
• United States
9 May 09
I have not found anything that really grabs me there. I have a friend on here who is having some issues there as well. I think my time is better spent here. For some I am sure it is great, though. I do not chat, or text, so that is what works for me.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
9 May 09
For me, Twitter and MyLot feed each other. Or rather, Twitter feeds MyLot in that I sometimes have writers' block so I go to Twitter and hang around there until I can dig up a subject or two from the back of my sodden brain for MyLot.
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I am very good at turning a few quick bits gathered from multiple places into a long drawn out subject. Surprisingly enough, the bits I gather seldom have anything to do with what I read on the screen. The 'Green Demon' has very little to do with a green cactus I sat in as a little girl, but the one drives that memory out to the forefront of the brain-box.
