Using Twitter — even to find out diving conditions at Seacrest!

With Oprah talking about it today, Twitter is suddenly The Next Big Bandwagon. We’ve been talking about Twitter here for a long time – WSB has been using it since November 2007, and we added a page here last year enabling you to check out recent tweets by almost anyone mentioning West Seattle, plus our latest tweets. You don’t need to sign up for Twitter to see what’s on it — just as long as you know who you’re looking for, you can check out their latest tweets on the Web; for example, we are @westseattleblog, so you can see what we’re up to at twitter.com/westseattleblog, Twitter member or not. Enough about us: We got word via Facebook (where you can “friend” us: WS Blog) from local diving instructor Dave Rintoul of Dive Canuck SCUBA that he’s set up a Twitter account – inspired by one in Malibu – to share info on Seacrest diving conditions. Find him at twitter.com/seacrestdiving – he says he’ll be looking for more divers to share the responsibility of posting condition updates.

jeannie April 18, 2009 (1:37 am)

Diving updates and other time-sensitive information are great uses for Twitter. However, I cannot understand the hundreds of thousands of sheep – oops, I mean people – who are “followers” of celebrities. Who cares if Ashton Kutcher is at Starbucks, or that Oprah is walking her dog? Yawn. People need to get a life, not hang on to the trivialities of others’ lives.

Rhonda Porter April 18, 2009 (1:43 pm)

Twitter is fun… there’s talk of planning a “tweet up” in West Seattle soon. If I hear more, I’ll contact WSB

@mortgageporter

WSB April 18, 2009 (2:06 pm)

There might be some tweetup potential in the BigBlog meetup coming up this Wednesday at Cafe Rozella – @moniguzman from seattlepi.com’s @bigblog will be there, 5:30 – CR’s Ricardo is an avid tweeter @caferozella – one or two of us will be there for sure, barring Massive Huge Breaking News! – TR

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