Reason to use Twitter, #4,513

While a lot of Twitter marketing is fairly basic “hey! come see us and buy our stuff!” (in the case of us news sites, we send out links in hopes you’ll come READ our stuff), there are also cool little moments like this one we just happened onto, hours after it happened: Pearl Jam‘s official Twitter account sent word of a photo (at left) of a limited-edition “record” (remember those?) and said, first person who finds it gets it. If you look at the photo full-size here, you’ll see the visual hint – Easy Street Records coffee cups. According to the comment thread on the Twitpic photo page, “someone named Megan got it.” (Reminds us of the April tale of a local family that found a Tony Hawk skateboard at Shadow Land via Twitter.) We use Twitter not just to send out story links (if you ONLY want those, find ’em at @westseattlenews), but also, at @westseattleblog, other tidbits, newsy and otherwise, plus Twitpics of events we’re covering, while we’re there, like the Denny International Middle School ceremony Monday morning (here and here). You can also just check in on the Web – our main @westseattleblog account is at twitter.com/westseattleblog. P.S. Easy Street itself is on Twitter, here – you’ll see tweets about the Pearl Jam release party this Saturday night and the Black Whales in-store show at 5 tonight.

Rhonda Porter September 15, 2009 (8:02 am)

Twitter is very cool–let me know if/when I can help plan a West Seattle Tweet-up

miws September 15, 2009 (8:02 am)

Ah yes! Fond childhood memories of records!

Playing a record at a faster, or slower speed than it’s format, and giggling at how funny it sounded. Especially cool, if your record player had all four speeds; 16, 33, 45 & 78 rpm!
You had a s—–u——p—–e—–r s—–l—–o—–w speed you could play your records at! (Did 16 rpm records ever even exist?)

Of course, the best part was moving the lever to the “neutral” spot between a couple of the speed settings, and spinning the turntable backwards, by hand, to hear the satanic messages! :o

Just imagine, what evil messages the little kids of the ’90’s could have gotten if there had been Barney the Dinosaur 45’s or L.P.’s! ;)

Mike

Jill September 15, 2009 (9:13 am)

>>satanic messages
Yes, which kids never would’ve known about if it hadn’t been for those knowledgeable and concerned evangelists that the schools hired to speak at assemblies. :)

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