Surprisingly, I found a good use for Twitter that doesn’t involve me writing my own ‘bot! Although, it isn’t truly a new use since conceptually I’m using it the same way.
Actually while I’m writing this, I just realized I found a second way to use Twitter – which was when the earthquake hit Toronto Ottawa. I hopped onto Twitter and used their live search to see if anyone else was tweeting the possibility of an earthquake, which confirmed my suspicions.
But I digress. What I wanted to blog about was that I used Twitter to keep up to date with the NHL draft. I don’t get TSN (although they offered free streaming video – this seems to be a trend in 2010) plus I wasn’t going to be home during the draft, so I just followed a couple of big hockey columnists and set it so their status updates would be sent to my phone. This allowed me to get quasi-real-time updates without actually paying attention to the draft! Wow, technology is pretty cool.
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