Will you get bored of Twitter?

May 6th, 2009

Yesterday morning Paddy Donnelly posed the question to Stephen Fry “Do you think you’ll eventually get bored of twitter?” Unfortunately Stephen hasn’t given a response, maybe he feels his answer is ‘yes’. For me, I think it will be a while before my answer isn’t ‘no’. Having enjoyed Twitter as an early adopter since early [...]


Retweet This

March 4th, 2009

There is too much ReTweeting going on on Twitter. I agree. Some of my friends had a bit of fun with this last night.


Belfast Twestival is Tomorrow

February 11th, 2009

Along with the Twestival events of over 175 cities across the globe this Thursday, 12th February, Belfast will be hosting its own event with a small but passionate bunch in support of Charity:Water. The event is being held in Lavery’s Bunker, who have kindly given the venue for free and allowed all door takings for [...]


Belfast Twestival – Get Your Tickets

January 30th, 2009

Venue = Black Box Lavery’s Bunker, Bradbury Place. Rock Band. Drinks. Prizes. Fun times. And more. If you are on Twitter, and in Northern Ireland on 12th February, then come along to BelfastTwestival. It’s always fun to meet those you follow or chat to online, and there are have been many new N.I. Tweeters over [...]


Human Kindness and the Internet

January 26th, 2009

The story starts with me, last Wednesday accidentally deleting my Music folder, rather than a single folder within that folder. Then, as I often to due to being constantly so low on space, emptied the trash. It was while the contents of the folder where disappearing – that I suddenly realised and cancelled before more [...]


The Shorty Awards and Who the Hell is Aloha?

January 22nd, 2009

If there is a prize for the most votes then dirty tactics will always be used – The Shorty Awards are no exception. Friend, blogger and twitter user (read: addict) John Williams (@mcawilliams) has made it into the final of the Shorty Awards – a competition designed to recognise those who bring usefulness, value and [...]


Who Ya Gonna Call?

November 27th, 2008

Why the Ghostbusters of course! This is the conversation that took place on Twitter just a short while ago. Most fun use of Twitter.


qwit it

October 20th, 2008

The controversial web-app, Qwitter (not that Qwitter), was released on Friday by Contrast to fulfill our own curiosity about losing followers on Twitter. For those who don’t know, Twitter works in a way where by users ‘follow’ other users, news sources, celebrities, people of similar interests, friends etc. What they say shows up on your [...]


stephen fry is a twit

October 16th, 2008

Stephen Fry, the legendary geek, journalist, writer, comedian, blogger, traveller, tv presenter; a general mass of talent and intellect – has joined Twitter. In the last 7 days he has amassed 5,749 followers as the wave of “Stephen Fry is on Twitter!” spreads across the web, with many of the Irish twits grateful of reciprocated [...]


twitter for music promotion

May 8th, 2008

For those unaware, Twitter is the latest social networking phenomenon. The main difference between it and any other social tool is that it’s based around what you say, in 140 characters, rather than how pretty your profile, your vast array of cool bands you like or all those super arty movies you like plus a [...]