Vacationing with Twitter in OBX

Lizzie and I are vacationing in the Outer Banks, NC for the week to get our batteries recharged after a bit of drama. Since it is the down season, Lizzie found a great deal. We started out with an ocean side house with pool and hot tub, but due to a scheduling error on the part of the Sun Realty agent, we were upgraded to another house.

Our current rental has 6 bedrooms, 5 full baths, a pool, a hot tub, shuffle board, game room with air hockey, pool, and fooseball and a golf cart all for 650 for the week. Peak season the place goes for 3500.00. Quiet a deal indeed.

I made a video of the place, and will see about uploading it tomorrow if time permits.

On the way down I was twittering the whole trip, and was amazed to see that all my text messages actually were on my account. I just started using twitter, and am still a bit of a novice. I am not really sure about the implications for social networking, but I can see its potential. For instance, one of my contacts, You_Decide, made a comment about a blog post, and then I checked it out. I imagine I was not the only one of his contacts that chose to check out the post on the Most Hated Business Phrases. “Thinking outside the box” might be one of the ones that I hate.

Twittering, is that a word?

Twitter is a relatively new Social networking site that enables you to stay connected with your contact while answering the question “What am I doing?” Updates can occur on the site, via IM(Not with my favorite Yahoo), and text messaging via your phone. Sign up for an account, and start meeting people from all over the world. Tell people all about the random events that make up your day much like I did today while driving to OBX.
The platform is a bit new, I have had a few problems using it. A few times it has been down, and my updates did not go through. At other times, the site has been unreachable. Still at other times, a funky little cat shows up to say there has been an error.

Check it out and add me to your contacts. I am EmperorAnton on Twitter.

Written by Pixelhead on May 30th, 2007 with comments disabled.
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