Question for the membership. Is anybody inviting folks here to join Twitter?

[greg g]

Just got an email asking me to consider registering for Twitter. The email said it was sent in behalf of an aquaintence. If some one here is doing so I would respectfully ask you to cease and dessist. I have seen some of you guys and this is as close as I want to get..... Just kidding, but I certainly don't need a different means of contact other than face to face at some car show or swap meet.

I won't tweet don't ask,

won't tweet don't make me,

won't tweet, why should I?

won't tweet, how could I?

I won't tweet, merci beaucoup!

I won't tweet cause my anger

won't my let my fingers do what they should do.

[Suddensix]

The only things that makes me want to twitter are old Mopars and good lookin wimmen!!!

[Brendan D25]

Hey Greg, maybe someone on here thinks your tweet! :D

[BobT-47P15]

I think a person can tweet and twitter from the time they get up in the

morning till they sack out at night. I don't think I'll participate, thank

you. Just jivin' here on the forum is enough for me.

[Don Coatney]

Twarnt me kause I kant twitter what the hell ever twittering is.

[Dennis Hemingway]

What's a TWITTER?

Dennis:eek:

[oldmopar]

Like Dennis I do not really know what a twitter is but I would think if someone was using the group to spam email more of us would be asked to join. Unless they think you are the kind of person who likes to twitter.

[Plymouthy Adams]

What's a TWITTER?

Dennis:eek:

someone that does not complete a project....??

[TodFitch]

It seems highly unlikely that anyone would want to know all my activities and transient thoughts. And I sure don't want to be bothered with "tweets" from others who have lives no more interesting than mine. So I guess I am the wrong generation to get Twitter.

On the other hand most of my immediate family is now set up with video cameras on our computers so we can do video calls to each other through Skype. So there is some hope for me accepting new communication methods.

[RobertKB]

What exactly is twitter? I have heard of it but have no idea what is really is? Is it different than a blog? It sounds to me like more communication than I need.

[Norm's Coupe]

Boy these youngin's have nothing on us old buzzards. They are actually behind the times if they are just now starting to twitter.

Rockin' Robin Lyrics

He rocks in the tree-top all a day long

Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' the song

All the little birds on J-Bird St.

Love to hear the robin goin' tweet tweet tweet

[Chorus:]

Rockin' robin (tweet tweet tweet)

Rockin' robin (tweet tweet tweet)

Oh rockin' robin well you really gonna rock tonight

Every little swallow, every chickadee

Every little bird in the tall oak tree

The wise old owl, the big black crow

Flapping them wings sayin' go bird go

[Chorus]

A wordy little raven at the bird's first dance

Taught him how to do the bop and it was grand

He started goin' steady and bless my soul

He out popped the buzzard and the oriole

He rocks in the tree-top all a day long

Hoppin' and a-boppin' and a-singin' the song

All the little birds on J-Bird St.

Love to hear the robin goin' tweet tweet tweet

[Chorus]

[Plymouthy Adams]

Norm...some things ought ot just die and stay that way..that song be one of them....

[Norm's Coupe]

I don't know about that Tim. I always liked to bop to that song, and still do. Of course I have to bop a little slower today than I did back then.

[Norm's Coupe]

Tim, maybe you'll like this one better.

Beat Me Daddy Eight to the Bar

In a little honky-tonky village in Texas

There's a guy who plays the best piano by far

He can play piano any way that you like it

But the way he likes to play is eight to the bar

When he plays, it's a ball

He's the daddy of them all

The people gather around when he gets on the stand

Then when he plays, he gets a hand

The rhythm he beats puts the cats in a trance

Nobody there bothers to dance

But when he plays with the bass and guitar

They holler out, "Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar"

A-plink, a-plank, a-plink plank, plink plank

A-plunkin' on the keys

A-riff, a-raff, a-riff raff, riff raff

A-riffin' out with ease

And when he plays with the bass and guitar

They holler out, "Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar"

He plays a boogie, he plays eight to the bar

A boogie-woogie, that is the way he likes to play on his piano

And we all know

That when he plays he puts them all in a trance

The cats all holler "Hooray"

You'll hear them say, "Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar"

----- instrumental break -----

In a little honky-tonky village in Texas

There's a guy who plays the best piano by far

When he plays with the bass and guitar

They holler, "Beat me up Daddy, beat me Daddy, eight to the bar"

The people gather around when he gets up on the stand

Then when he plays, he gets a hand

The rhythm that he plays puts the cats in a trance

Nobody there ever bothers to dance

But when he plays with the bass and guitar

They holler out, "Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar"

A-plink plink, a-plank plank, a-plink plank, plink plank

A-plunkin' on the keys

A-riff riff, a-raff raff, a-riff raff, riff raff

A-riffin' out with ease

But when he plays with the bass and guitar

They holler out, "Beat me Daddy, eight to the bar"

[BobT-47P15]

If you don't know what Twitter is, follow this link to wikipedia's

description.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

[Johnny S]

Just got an email asking me to consider registering for Twitter. The email said it was sent in behalf of an aquaintence.

I've gotten similar email invites that purported to come from folks on this site but those invites were not to the "Twitter" site but to another similar type of site that's a new startup competitor to Twitter. Somethings up here .... it's almost like someone has harvested the contact list from P15-D24 and is using a new strategy to recruit. I just "shift-delete" them especially since there has been no discussion on this idea within this list that I can find.

[Norm's Coupe]

I have not seen any email inviting me to twitter. Guess no one considers me a good twitter contact. Anyway, because of that I doubt someone got your email for that from here because of that.

That said, last fall we installed a lot of filters to stop about 90% of the junk mail we use to get. But.........I've noticed if I go onto Craigs List or ebay to look at something, I immediately get new junk mail I haven't received before. So.........I think that may be the source of a lot of that mail. Or, if you go onto facebook, youtube, etc., your address could have been harvested from there. I've never visited those sites so maybe that's why I don't receive anything from the twitters.

[Johnny S]

That's possible Norm .... we leave a lot of "bread crumbs" as we travel the web.

[Plymouthy Adams]

More and more people (dumb people some would say) are facing criminal prosecution from posting on the You-Tube, My-space and Facebook..pranks in restuarants, teachers with photo taken with the kids they are supposed to be teaching..poetic justice for a sick mind some of these are..and retribution for expressing an original idea...hardly likely that will get you off the hook..

[dezeldoc]

I will join the "what the heck is twitter" club, heard of it but know nothing about it. I have not gotten any e-mail to join either.

[Plymouthy Adams]

saw on the new that there is a race going on to see who can reach a million new subscribers first on twitter..

[Fireball]

Where is this world heading, first cell phones, one has to be always available. Now facebook/tiwitter etc. and one should be telling every move he or she does. I say twit it, that's full of twit!

[BobT-47P15]

Just while ago, I read an article that says today's younger people now are

too busy to listen to voice mail. They will either totally ignore it, be slow

to respond to it, or simply call back the number that left a message without

listening to that message.

The best things to do, they say, are text messages or e-mail.

Of course, I sort of agree with part of the comments made that when

you get a phone message and they leave you a phone number, you have

to go find a note pad and pen, then replay the message to then write

down the name and number. With text or email, it's already there

in writing. You can look at text or mail during a meeting whereas you

can't listen to voice mail without being obvious.

However, since we at my house are older, we so far have not seen the

benefit of texting......would rather speak to someone. Besides, they

charge you even more for text time on the phone. Imagine that!

[dezeldoc]

saw on the new that there is a race going on to see who can reach a million new subscribers first on twitter..

On Yahoo they said Aston Kutcher won that race.

[Norm's Coupe]

Just while ago, I read an article that says today's younger people now are

too busy to listen to voice mail. They will either totally ignore it, be slow

to respond to it, or simply call back the number that left a message without

listening to that message.

The best things to do, they say, are text messages or e-mail.

Of course, I sort of agree with part of the comments made that when

you get a phone message and they leave you a phone number, you have

to go find a note pad and pen, then replay the message to then write

down the name and number. With text or email, it's already there

in writing. You can look at text or mail during a meeting whereas you

can't listen to voice mail without being obvious.

However, since we at my house are older, we so far have not seen the

benefit of texting......would rather speak to someone. Besides, they

charge you even more for text time on the phone. Imagine that!

Bob,

You just hit the nail on the head. When you are in a meeting, you're supposed to be paying attention to whats going on in that meeting, not checking your text messages on your phone. Plus, there is nothing more annoying to me than to have a sales person explaining something to me, then his cell phone rings and he says he has to answer it. When that happens, that sales person is then finished talking to me. I will just tell them, I'm evidently not important enough for him since he had to answer that call in the middle of our conversation. That's a big NO SALE when that happens for that sales person. Actually, I've even walked away from someone I'm just talking to about anything if they answer the cell phone or even check their text messages while talking to me. That's just plain rude in my book. That's also why I don't have call waiting on my phones. I wouldn't answer the other call while talking to someone else anyway.

Not all young people are into cell phones though. My son (41 years old) for example says he wouldn't have a cell phone, and he's into all kinds of computers and hi tech stuff. He also doesn't mess around with facebook, etc. on the computer.

That said. I really feel sorry for the person who is too lazy to get off his/her rear end to pick up a pencil and paper to copy a phone number from a phone message. That's just plain out right being lazy. If they are that lazy, I probably don't want to talk to them anyway.