I am used to it. I tweet on the work account about every day. I'm also used to the Royals and Chiefs losing. Doesn't mean I have to like it.

Twitter is pretty awesome. When the Tiller story broke, Twitter had the arest of the suspect, his address, license plate etc before any traditional newscast.

It's real time. It's not for everybody. IMO, Twitter is pretty incredible.

If I need to know something now Twitter search generally provides it much much better than google search.

What is your twitter id, Beerme?

Also, WAVE is badass... I'm in the sandbox playing around with it...

and have bought two domains to capitalize on its awesomeness.

WaveEDU.com and Wavertise.com

Front end of a trend!! woo hoo!!!

what is your username William?

mine is @teedubya... in the next couple of days, I should break 50k followers.

I don't have one it's a work id. I post work stuff only and we don't follow others, just let them follow us so our page stays only about the station instead of getting clogged up with everyone's random thoughts.

Pretty much....

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It's pretty obvious that most of Chiefsplanet is Anti-Facebook and Anti-Twitter.

Chiefsplanet people tend to be late adopters.

I love twitter though. I have more than one account... one, where I follow everyone who follows me, and one where I only follow a few select people.

The industry news I get via twitter is invaluable.

This.

On a message board, someone starts a thread like, "I'm having Fruit Loops for breakfast". Then, throughout the day or even the week, people will slowly respond to that with various comments like, "You're a pillowbiter," or "I had Egg McMuffins", or, "Fruit Loops are the food of right-wing fascists, you Bush loving tree-killer", or "I don't give a shit what you ate".

On Facebook, it's the same thing, but only your "friends" can see it, and they can be lazy, 'cause it'll pop up on their home page and they don't actually have to navigate to a message board.

With Twitter, it's the same thing, but now they don't even have to use a computer, your pointless blathering will show up right on their cellphones.

The more we "get connected", the less "connected" we are. Remember the old days, when you would actually write a letter, or maybe pick up the phone to talk to someone? Now we AIM and Tweet and do other sorts of shit, and yet--with the instantaneous communication of "I had Fruit Loops two minutes ago"--we still seem even less connected. How long before we're all living alone in giant houses, afraid to go outside or have human contact, like the people in Isaac Asimov's "The Naked Sun"?

Personally, I think WAVE is gonna revolutionize things in more ways than one.

If you can monitor the waves that your friends are participating in... and share in the resources, the lure of twitter will diminish.

The love of twitter is finding new talented people with great ideas, sharing great resources... if WAVE brings the thunder on that issue also... then TwitterHouston has a problem.

The problem with twitter is that in 2+ years of my using it, there has been VERY little innovation...

Waves will be embeddable into blogs, websites, forums, everything... its a total game changer.

I just don't feel the need to make sure everyone I know and a bunch of people I don't, know every move I make. I don't really care that they are taking a walk or watching a cool show or that it's raining in Arkansas and I don't know why they'd want to know those things about me. If I want to inform a friend of what I'm doing I have a cell phone, e-mail and I text. Needing 84 different ways to keep tabs on everything everyone does is just dumb to me.

Don't get me wrong if you're into it and it works for you, more power to you. I like to hide so I don't embrace these things much.

We have a station facebook and I've never even logged onto it... and I'm the Program Director. There are people at work who care it about so I let them keep it updated. I have shit to do to make the product worth listening to... my morning co-host can take care of the PR.

This is my favorite paragraph in this thread.

Yeah a lot of people post drivel... but, those aren't the ones that I glean value from.

So, say you followed 100 of the top radio station program directors... I would bet that you would get some great knowledge from them... learn some things, make some good connections... and maybe some friends.... chances are, one of these connections could give you a job someday.

So, there is value, it just depends on if you look at that "breakfast" tweets or the industry tweets.

I do understand that, believe me. I have e-mail correspondence with some other PD's across the country and we share playlist moves and research and even send sound back and forth to each other. It's nice... I just honestly don't know how much time I have for more of it.

As long as my daughter is still in school I'm not leaving for another job anyway... however when she graduates in 5 years that's a possibility... even then I'm really only am interested in maybe going back home to the KC/Topeka area and luckily I know people there already.

I know things like twitter have value and it's all about how you use them. I'm kind of old school I guess. Hell I used to spin actual records when I got into this business just 20 years ago... lol. Playing everything off a hard drive 20 years later is a trip... and to a degree it's made us all lazy. I'd be happy to dust off and cue up records again.