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***harper*** · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2010 06:29 PM by harper.)

It's been suggested that we should have a presence on Twitter (see Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links. - post #4).

Comments, people?

BTW this is an area I know next to nothing about. So please treat me as an idiot and explain in words of one syllable...

Musubimen · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2010 10:43 PM by Musubimen.)

Personally I don't use Twitter (mainly because of security reasons) and I am still unsure if this micro-blogging stuff isn't just a hype. On the other hand some well-known people in the bondage and/or BDSM-World are having Twitter accounts.

- KinbaCon (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
- Midori (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
- Twistedmonk (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
- Xanoo (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.

(please feel free to add)

Nikita · (This post was last modified: 11-03-2010 11:31 PM by Nikita.)

(11-03-2010 10:27 PM)Musubimen Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.Personally I don't use Twitter (mainly because of security reasons) and I am still unsure if this micro-blogging stuff isn't just a hype. On the other hand some well-known people in the bondage and/or BDSM-World are having Twitter accounts.

- KinbaCon (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
- Midori (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
- Twistedmonk (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
- Xanoo (Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.

(please feel free to add)

Thank you. Don't mind if I do.

Twitter is useful for some people. I'm one of them. I also wish I had stock in it.

For example,

All the articles from my websites are automatically posted to twitter along with a tiny url. It helps generate a lot of traffic.

I found out about a call for story submissions from a publisher that I like, submitted a story and it was accepted.

I was going to skip Atlanta Bound until I discovered one of the people on my twitter list was teaching. He's going to show me a tie that's not on the curriculum. Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

I won a $150 prize to Zappos for following Shoeblog.com on twitter.

Now I'm not the type to sit and surf all day long. I have a family, a job, write, have 5 or 6 websites of my own, some that I regularly keep up with, and lifestyle friends.

Twitter is easy for me to keep up with because there are a bunch of twitter gadgets out there. This is Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links. I use most often. It's on my igoogle homepage. There's also one on my blackberry.

Here is my contribution to your list. A bunch of them are probably members of this site!

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Okay, I'll shut up on the matter.

***esinem*** · (This post was last modified: 12-03-2010 08:57 PM by esinem.)

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Nikita · 22-05-2010, 08:11 PM

How has twitter been working for you?

Musubimen · 22-05-2010, 10:34 PM

So some people may have noticed...I now have a twitter account (in fact its just for testing how it works, how useful it is etc)

Summary: Its entertaining and sometimes also informative what other people are writing, but my life is too trivial to tweet anything of interest.

***harper*** · 22-05-2010, 11:07 PM

I fully appreciate that a ForumBondage presence on Twitter, FaceBook, etc. might raise our profile, attract more members, and generate more activity.

On a personal level, I got a bit too hooked on MSN & Yahoo chat a few years ago, and eventually decided that cutting them out of my life altogether was the best thing to do. It was a good decision, and part of the reason why the only social networking sites I'm now involved with are this place, FetLife, and very occasionally Informed Consent. Life is too short already...

Leaving aside the security / privacy etc. issues that are fairly well-known, one thing that concerns me about the idea of putting ForumBondage on Twitter and/or FaceBook etc. is that it might "dilute" what we have built up in this Forum. Partly because it might lead to discussion migrating away from here into other places not under our control, and partly because it might attract people here looking for things that we aren't about. We are, as far as I know, unique in being the only dedicated "pure" bondage forum on the web, and I for one want to keep it that way.

Do we want to contribute towards a situation where, in order to keep up with a discussion, you have to have a FetLife account and a Twitter account and a FaceBook account (etc.!) and check them all several times a day?

My instinct is to say no to sugestions of expansion of ForumBondage to other places. I think we've done remarkably well here in the nine months since we launched, and that there's no need to change the formula at this stage. OTOH, I also acknowledge that although I've been a technological early-adopter all my life, social networking is one area where I prefer to lag well behind the crest of the wave. If there's anyone out there who is sufficiently up on these things to be able to persuade me that the benefits of Twitter and FB could be sufficiently under our control to work to our advantage and not against us, I'm happy to listen. And I know that my co-Administrator has his toes much deeper into those waters than mine are...

Nikita · 23-05-2010, 08:05 AM

(22-05-2010 10:34 PM)Musubimen Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.So some people may have noticed...I now have a twitter account (in fact its just for testing how it works, how useful it is etc)

Summary: Its entertaining and sometimes also informative what other people are writing, but my life is too trivial to tweet anything of interest.

I know now. Guests cannot see images in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see images.

Wonder if there is a twitter translator?

Musubimen · 23-05-2010, 12:43 PM

(23-05-2010 08:05 AM)Nikita Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.Wonder if there is a twitter translator?

Not afaik but at least in my case most of the things I will tweet are in English.

Nikita · (This post was last modified: 23-05-2010 05:14 PM by Nikita.)

(23-05-2010 12:43 PM)Musubimen Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.
(23-05-2010 08:05 AM)Nikita Wrote: Guests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links.Wonder if there is a twitter translator?

Not afaik but at least in my case most of the things I will tweet are in English.

Yes there is a twitterGuests cannot see links in the messages. Please register to forum by clicking here to see links. I looked it up after my last post.

The only difference between this translator and a standard language translator, is that you can tweet in your language and it will automatically post it in the language of your choice. It's one step.

@harper

Quote:one thing that concerns me about the idea of putting ForumBondage on Twitter and/or FaceBook etc. is that it might "dilute" what we have built up in this Forum. Partly because it might lead to discussion migrating away from here into other places not under our control, and partly because it might attract people here looking for things that we aren't about. We are, as far as I know, unique in being the only dedicated "pure" bondage forum on the web, and I for one want to keep it that way.

Do we want to contribute towards a situation where, in order to keep up with a discussion, you have to have a FetLife account and a Twitter account and a FaceBook account (etc.!) and check them all several times a day?

This paragraph concerns me harper. It sounds rather elitist. Is this site open to any and all people interested in bondage or are you starting to screen before they join?

I thought you had a membership drive.

You, as webmaster/owner/moderator/whatever, have control over content and membership here.

I'm not sure why you think belonging to Fetlife, Twitter, or Face book, (I think fb and bondage don't mix very well,) has anything to do with keeping up with a discussion here.

To me, this is the best bondage forum and the only one I make an effort to visit and participate. I figured you'd like others that are like minded to know about it.

Maybe my point got diluted or meandered away from its original intention, which was suggesting twitter attract traffic to this site. It's your show.
I don't have any vested interest in pushing it.

However, some members here may want to promote their own websites. Twitter has been a proven way to do so. Just saying.