Tweeeeet

Now it has happened: As an effect of the urgent need for a weekend, I registered with twitter. Only adding people I could think of easily, I am not “following” 37 people ;)

Of course, my twitter experience started all peachy right off the bat, by first giving me site errors:

 
(hey, at least they are pretty)

… and then I noticed something weird about the times they show on every page:


“ungefähr 1 Stunde ago from web…” … is that… Germenglish? Englerman?

But let’s not be discouraged. They probably just started their announced maintenance window four hours early ;)

Anyone else think I forgot to “follow” them on twitter? Leave a comment.



6 Responses to “Tweeeeet”

  1. Why not plurk? Seems more healthy, easier to track discussions. Plus, with twitter, if someone answers to someone else’s tweet, you just see the reply, and the original not.

    plurk does this better. every “plurk” is a mini thread, everyone who sees can “join” their plurks will be seen by the other plurkers viewing that thread.

    plurk is also very fast with AJAX.

    uh, enough of this evangelism, sorry :)

  2. It is called Denglisch.

  3. Why are you using twitter?
    Identi.ca is open source and much better
    http://identi.ca/

  4. Well it’s obviously Germenglish. Engerleran would have been

    “About 1 hour Vor aus dem Web”

  5. @Corey

    Identi.ca is a newer site and will take time to pick up… There are many many people here on twitter….

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