[ale] Anyone using Social Networks?

[Jim Philips]

On Friday 20 February 2009 16:38:59 Greg Freemyer wrote:
> 2009/2/20 Marc Ferguson <marcferguson at gmail.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm curious as to how many of the LUGites are using social networks, such
> > as Twitter, Identica, etc?  In case anyone is, I created an ale group on
> > Identica.
> >
> > http://identi.ca/group/ale
>
> Someone just told me a couple days ago that the linux kernel people
> are suggesting the use of twitter.
>
> I know next to nothing about twitter, but I'm curious about the lk
> tie-in.  Anyone know what group (or whatever) one would subscribe to
> see the twittering going back and forth.  (Or is it all one way
> broadcast?)

You can Twitter back and forth. It isn't all one-way broadcast. A good 
application for doing the whole thing is Tweetdeck. It requires Adobe Air. 
Works just fine in Linux.