Impulse Twitter Network
Tuesday, March 3, 2009 by Zoomba | Discussion: Personal Computing
If you’ve been following Impulse (or Stardock for that matter) for any length of time, you know one of the things that sets us apart and makes us unique is how accessible we are, and how easy it is to get in contact with us, be it via the forums, IRC, e-mail or instant messenger. We know that a lot of our success comes from our outstanding community of gamers, and we are always looking for new ways to get news out there, and talk talk directly to gamers.
Now, some of you may already know this, but over the last few months we’ve started posting to Twitter.
Twitter, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a micro-blogging service….
Here’s the official description:
Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People write short updates, often called "tweets" of 140 characters or fewer. These messages are posted to your profile or your blog, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search.
It’s free, and doesn’t require any special software (though there are some excellent twitter apps out there. I use TweetDeck myself). It’s also incredibly easy to use.
We use our various Twitter accounts to announce releases, interesting news bits, and even a few giveaways. Not to mention we just like chatting with other users on the service.
If you’re on Twitter, you can follow us and keep up on what’s happening with Impulse:
- @Stardock – The Official Stardock Twitter Feed
- @ImpulseDriven – The Official Impulse Twitter Feed
- @IslandDog – Spencer Scott, Stardock’s Technology Evangelist
- @mittense – Trent Polack , Game Developer
- @Zoomba – My Feed! Mike Crassweller, the guy who brings you weekly updates and more
Follow us and keep up to date on what’s happening.
If you’re on Twitter already, post your Twitter name in the comments below. I’ll check on this thread every now and then and update this post with a directory of all of the Impulse community members and their Twitter links.
Impulse Twitter Directory…
| Stardock… | ||
| @IslandDog | Spencer Scott | Technology Evangelist |
| @mittense | Trent Polack | Game Developer |
| @Zoomba | Mike Crassweller | Digital Publishing (Impulse) |
| @TorpedoBeetle | Ross Dexter | Game Developer |
| The Community… | ||
| @Mythor | Mythor | |
| @Hankers | Hankers | WC Moderator |
| @db201407 | derbal213 | |
| @drakythe | drakonfire | |
| @xiandi | Xiandi | |
| @sanchonino | SanChonino | |
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Reply #2 Monday, March 2, 2009 6:49 PM
@mittense link is wrong, it's going to the Tweetdeck site.
I'm just using [url=http://www.twhirl.org/]Twhirl[/url] for my Twittering so far. Tweetdeck looks good but seems like it requires a fair bit of tinkering to get it doing what you want it to do? Will definitely try it one day though.
I don't really use it a lot and mostly to annoy friends, but my Twitter name is @mythor if you want to add me to the list.
Also, @islanddog re: Empire: Total War - there's a demo available and it's great fun. Full game due tomorrow! 
Reply #5 Monday, March 2, 2009 7:11 PM
Lol I like how this was on Mitten's twitter. I wonder what it's from
Reply #6 Monday, March 2, 2009 8:06 PM
I also use Twhirl for my Twittering. twitter name is @drakythe in case no one could guess.
Reply #7 Monday, March 2, 2009 8:56 PM
Mine is @Xiandi 
....not that I say a whole lot, but I keep it running on my desktop all the time to see whats happening.
Reply #10 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 9:44 AM
@zubaz but I don't tweet too often 
(I really need something light that integrates FB and twitter . . preferabbly though pidgin)
Reply #11 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:12 AM
As if we ever needed more proof that mittens is just.. odd.
Reply #12 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:24 AM
Social networking will make you eyes go crossed! 
Reply #13 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 11:34 AM
That's why I don't do it. At all. 
I had a facebook for a month or so until I sighed in disgust and abandoned it.
Reply #14 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 2:43 PM
@jukeboxaudio
I need some followers! I use it multiple times a day.
Reply #15 Tuesday, March 3, 2009 9:02 PM
Reply #17 Tuesday, March 10, 2009 7:00 PM
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I've barely begun to tweet though.... We'll see where I end up. 
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Reply #1 Monday, March 2, 2009 6:27 PM