These three places are times during your day you stop concentrating, start to daydream and your mind works in the background as your thoughts go on autopilot. I’ve realized this and I’ve also come up with the solution on harvesting the ideas.

While you’re driving, have a voice recorder nearby, call your own voicemail or Twitterfone your idea. If you do use Twitterfone as a source of recording, be sure you want the public to hear your ideas or use/steal them for themselves.

When you’re showering, your options are limited, but you can use a voice recorder. If you don’t have a voice recorder, check your phone, because most new phone models have a voice record function and don’t forget, you can always dry yourself off so you can write down your idea.

The easiest (and best) place to get and record your ideas is while you’re sitting down on the crapper. You are able to text a message on your phone, call your voicemail/Twitterfone, use a laptop or you can go old school and bring in a pen and paper.

I know these places aren’t everybody’s choice place for ideas, butt (pun intended) if you have ideas, write them down! Even if they are the worst idea when you look back at them, it never hurts to write them down. If you know someone who might be able to put your idea into motion, make that connection. Getting the idea is the first step, but to see that idea realized, you need to move the idea forward!

Also, don’t try and force the ideas, because usually those are the ones you want to flush!

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1)  Twitter’s Mobile Website

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Before I picked up my T-Mobile G1/Android phone, I had an HTC Excalibur/Dash and Twitter’s mobile site was my main mobile client.  I was using the $5.99 hack to access the ‘edge’ network and rarely used the wifi to allow the java clients to work, so I don’t have any clients I truly enjoyed on the Dash.  The mobile client works on nearly, if not all phones with some sort of browser access. It’s plain & simple and doesn’t contain normal Twitter features, such as reply and direct messages.  If you still want to use the website and your phone can allow it, use the regular twitter.com website.

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2)  Tweetie

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This is a new OS X application that is a huge success on the iPhone. I tried it for the first time right before posting Part 1 of my Twitter posts, and I wanted to spend a little time before talking about it. I’ll admit I didn’t spend enough time with it, because I don’t quite get it, yet.  Where I want icons/buttons for retweets, replies, direct messages…etc, they are hidden in the menu or you need to right-click on the post itself to see your options. If I’m using my laptop, I tend to forget to right click.  I’m going to keep plugging away with Tweetie and I will try and do another and better review if I continue to use it…

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3) Twidroid

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Twidroid, as well as the next application, Twit2Go, are apps that run on Android based phones.  Right now Twidroid is my favorite application to use on my G1.  Twidroid has smooth scrolling, your main modes of Twitter communication (timeline, replies, direct messages and refresh) are buttons at the bottom of you screen and to do your @replies, direct messages and retweets, there is a button that displays a menu on the right side of a tweet.  Twidroid also allows you to search, follow/unfollow, send pictures w/Twitpic and it also allows you to have your tweets updated at set intervals.

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4)  Twit2Go

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Twit2Go, in my opinion, is very similar to Twidroid. It’s faster in some spots, such as loading new tweets, but the scrolling smoothness isn’t all there that I like. It utilizes the tap/hold function to access tweet options and if there is a link in a tweet you want to access, you find that in that same tweet options menu that pops up.  One thing it has over Twidroid though, if you want to view a single person’s profile and tweets on Twit2Go, you don’t have a minimized viewing area that’s taken up by the direct message and unfollow button as well as back and refresh buttons.  I don’t use Twit2Go all the time, but I will turn to it for a change from Twidroid here and there.

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5) Loquacious (demo)

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I just re-downloaded this on my G1 and the one complaint I had originally for this program, even though it was the demo that I have been using, was the scrolling issues. Well, I just tried scrolling and I can tell you, that problem has been fixed. Loquacious has two pluses on top of other Android Twitter clients. The first plus is, Loquacious allows you to control multiple accounts without having to re-login and keeps all accounts/passwords stored for easy switching. The second plus is it allows you to filter the accounts that show up on your timeline. You are able to filter by the program/source of the tweeter, as well as let you choose which user’s tweets show up in your timeline. If you have users that only post the music they are listening to or YouTube videos they are viewing, you can make sure you don’t have to see those updates to the point of deleting them from your following list.

I know there are other programs out there and I’m willing to try them.  If you have a suggestion, leave me a comment and let me know.

Twitter and TwitterFox

1)  Twitter’s Website
Where every user starts and where I come to almost daily to update my follower’s list and add saved searches to my sidebar. One thing I’ve found out while creating multi-accounts and changing the themes and backgrounds, if you change the background from the default front page, you can get the search in your sidebar.  If not, you’re scrolling to the bottom to find the search link.

2)  Twitterfox
If you use Firefox, this is a must have. It chills out in your status bar, displays little pop-ups of new messages and it lets you use multiple twitter accounts.  Once you add your accounts to Twitterfox, to change the names, click on your current username in the upper right hand corner and it’ll show your usernames.

Twhirl

3)  Thwirl
Before using Seesmic Desktop, I used Twhirl and I still do depending on what I feel like using.  Both of which run on the Adobe Air. Twhirl is a multi-user application that lets you move each user window to it’s own place on the screen. It does support Growl for OS X or use it’s own bubble pop up gimmick.

Seesmic Desktop

4)  Seesmic Desktop
I just started using Seesmic about two weeks ago and right now it is my favorite application at the moment.  If you’ve used Tweetdeck, it’s very similar to that, but it doesn’t have the capital letter (ex. I) and then a spacebar issue where the space won’t happen after a capital letter, such as ‘I,’ but maybe it’s just an issue on my end). Seesmic supports multiple user names that can show up in your main timeline, or you can opt certain ones out.  There are collapsible menus for your accounts, custom user lists (Tweetdeck also has this) and searches.  You can max the Seesmic window and custom tweet updates, such as @replies, direct messages and custom searches.  You’re able to update your status to your designated username with a drop down menu, but I am finding issues doing retweet and @replies.  Even if I try and retweet or reply, I’ve been running into the problem of the username changing from the one I had it set on to another open username.  I’ve sent out quite a few tweets on the wrong accounts, but the delete function is always a great thing to have just in case!

That’s it for now. Next week, I’ll talk about the Twitter Apps I use on mobile devices and the new OS X application Tweetie, by Atebits.  I’ve only tested Tweetie for a few minutes before writing this up and I need to get used to it’s features and where to find everything that’s hiding in their menu items. It’s pretty confusing for me at the moment, maybe it’s due to the fact I’ve never used the iPhone app before.

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If you’ve been using Twitter and are staying current with the trends of Web 2.0 and social media/networking, you would know you can have your Twitter or Ping.fm account to update all of your social networking site’s status messages at once and you update your status anywhere and everywhere you possibly can.  You let people know you woke up, that you’re about to drive to work, that you’re at a sporting event or concert or your foot itches, butt (pun intended) have you ever updated your status to say you are dropping friends off at the pool and admitted IT?

Wait, what did I just ask you? Do I update my status messages where?

Just admit IT, you’ve done IT… You’ve taken your cellphone/smartphone or laptop into the bathroom and you’ve updated your status.

You might as well tell everyone what you’re doing because you tell them everything else in your status messages.  Simply tell them you’re ‘taking a twoop,’ ‘twooping, ‘sitting on the twooper’ or let them know that you just ‘twooped.’  OR, if you are an anti-twitter user like my co-host of ITRadio, Frosty, a ‘fake twoop’ is the term to use for anti-twitter users that still update their social networking status messages from the toilet! (I know, why is an anti-twitter user using twitter words? Frosty supports my shit, that’s why!)

Where did the terms ‘twoop’ and ‘twooping’ come from?  IT generated from Twitter user’s ‘tweet speak.’ Tweet speak would be changing the the first letters of the verb or noun you are writing and using “tw” instead. An easy example would be pooping turning in to twooping.

I wasn’t the first to use twoop and twooping in spring of 2008, but I was the one who started using the terms on a daily basis. Once I started telling people I was twooping the twoop, I couldn’t stop. I’m not afraid to tell people where I am or that I’m going to the bathroom and you shouldn’t be afraid either. You buy toilet paper don’t you or are you too scared to do that in fear someone might see you buying it (IT’s a true story. A friend of mine didn’t want to buy TP in case a pretty girl walked past him and it would ruin his chances with her.)

Try doing a search for ‘twoop’ or ‘twooping’ on Twitter and you’ll see @itradio all over the place as well as family, friends and fans of ITRadio | tourettesradio.com.

You can add @twoop and @twooping for retweets of other Twitter users using twoop and twooping!

I’m so proud of my twooping skills and thanks to @BeerBear for saying he would buy a “I’d rather be twooping, LOT” hoodie if I made Twooping Gear on CafePress (http://cafepress.com/twooping_gear) and I did.  So, do yourself a favor, let people know you’re twooping the twoop right out of your butt and when you’re not twooping, let the world know what you’d rather be doing!

I think I need a T.A support group. Yes, that’s right Twoopers Anonymous, LOT.

AND if you don’t know what LOT means or you haven’t figured it out yet while I’m giving you time before telling you the answer… IT’s ‘Laughing on Twitter.’