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Covered in ELO

Thought you might enjoy this, I did. In other vaguely ELO-related news: Roy Wood is on Twitter.

Erdington Councillor gets stick for stones

Erdington Councillor Gareth Compton (Conservative) manages to make the papers this morning for a Tweet he published last night suggesting (jokingly one would hope and assume) that a journalist to be stoned to death: “Can someone please stone Yasmin Alibhai-Brown to death? I shan’t tell Amnesty if you don’t. It would be a blessing, really,” He’s now since deleted it, apologised, and said: “Twitter is a forum for glib comment of the moment. It was a glib comment. Who could possibly think it was serious? ” And no, in the context of the @GarethFCompton twitter account it’d be hard to take it seriously, but each Tweet can be seen on it’s own, without context. Around the election, his un-disguised glee at the result was understandable, but on Twitter at least he was hardly magnanimous in victory. That episode (go read about it) did have it’s comic value though, however much it disappointed those who live in his ward in Birmingham. If brevity (and 140 chars is pretty brief) is the soul of wit, it’s also the saving grace of being able to converse with those of wildly different opinions. It’s why so many people can watch or read the views of...

Very amusing Twitter public service, not of course from WMPTE. Spotted (well, where I saw it) by Harry Vale.

As part of the site revamp we’ve added tweets from onBirmingham to the sidebar, and would like you to join in: Twitter is now pretty much established as the place where news can break most quickly — when news happens it’s becoming more and more likely a Twitterer will be somewhere nearby, or be one of the first to hear it. But unless it’s huge World news whether you hear it quickly is dependant on who you’re following. If you’re not following the ‘newsmaker’ then you’ll wait until someone you do follow mentions it, or until a blog or even a newspaper picks it up (queue the “Twitter is fast at news” news story). Thing is for the more niche or local story that may never happen. Which is where the idea behind onBirmingham comes in. It’s been going for about 18 months and with 300 odd news items it seems to work, but it could do with more people tweeting in. Here’s how it works: The @onBirmingham Twitter account retweets (with attribution) direct messages (DMs) sent to it. It can only get DMs from people that the account is following, so there can’t be any spam. onBirmingham will...

'Tweet potholes' appeal launched

The council have got a wee bit of publicity for announcing that they're going to take reports of potholes via Twitter (to the press office account, oddly) – "It just makes sense to use it," said Council spokesman Geoff Coleman. Have to say it would make a lot more sense to use fixymystreet.com which is built of the purpose, and would be great to endorse.

Tweleven, sorry

Replay a quick snapshot of today’s 11 bus extravaganza – via the medium of Twitter: 11 bus tweets

There doesn’t seem to be an excuse to spend any time in your own house this week: On Wednesday you can have a drink with internet types at The Anchor, or pop along to The Edge and hack to your hearts content with the fizzPOPpers. On Friday, the Twitter mafia will be very upset if you don’t get to the Arcadian and “tweet up” (bleeding hell) at Twestival. It’s raising money for the YMCA, so expect more village people references than is healthy. The whole weekend is covered by ArtsFest — but we need recommendations for anything worth going to during that. If you’re not all classical fireworks fantasia’d out by Saturday evening, them you could do a lot worse than pop along to the Irish Centre where Rhubarb Radio are hosting an afterparty — will all the more danceable DJs as well as live acts fresh from ArtsFest.

Brum news on Twitter

onBirmingham isTwitter generated breaking news about Birmingham. It works by using a network of “newsmakers” who can use the onBirmingham Twitter account to distribute local news as soon as they hear about it — they’ll likely be first on the scene and first with the news. Follow @onBirmingham on Twitter for news. Want to be a newsmaker? Follow @onBirmingham for news and then send us an @ message us if you want to be a newsmaker. I’m a newsmaker – how do I send news? Once @onBirmingham is following you any direct message that you tweet to is will be distributed as news. Direct message format: d onBirmingham message

Rhubarb Radio has kindly consented to allow your very own BiNS-ers Jon & Jules to have a show — on the internet radio and everything. It’ll be what you’d expect from us — intelligent, amusing, cool, and featuring ELO (maybe). We’d love you to listen to us live (at Rhubarb Radio.com — click on the ‘Listen Live’ button) so you can abuse us via Twitter or email — the show is on Saturday mornings between 8am and 10am. But if you’re not awake, or by a computer there’s ways of listening again on the website. The show’s got its own blog – thebigpaws.co.uk where we’ll post track listings and links to any stuff we mention that has links. Follow The Big Paws on Twitter for the easiest way to talk to us during the show. We will also be live-tweeting our track list. (What is Twitter? Here’s a handy guide to get you started.) There’s a facebook group, if that’s the sort of thing you like. Our studio dogsbody will be collecting any messages or requests (we’ll only play good stuff tho’). So tune in at 8am Saturday, you know it makes sense.

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Posts Tagged ‘ twitter ’

Covered in ELO

Erdington Councillor gets stick for stones

“Travel_WM” on Twitter

Join in, make the news @onBirmingham

'Tweet potholes' appeal launched

Tweleven, sorry

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Brum news on Twitter

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