Monday
Nov122007
Top 10 Reasons Why I'm Twittering Again
Monday, November 12, 2007 at 8:21AM 
10. I'm not hip enough for Pownce.
9. I've finally trained myself to write Twitter instead of TWiTter.
8. Alex King's Twitter Tools for Wordpress mean my Tweets become part of my blog and no longer evaporate.
7. I miss my San Francisco digerati A-list friends.
6. Jaiku is now Gooku and invite only.
5. How else am I going to find out what Merlin is up to?
4. It's not about functionality, it's about family.
3. iJustine said she would follow me.
2. All the cool kids are doing it.
and the number 1 reason why I'm Twittering again...
Scoble must be stopped!
Reader Comments (45)
Ah, but only one reason is really necessary. As a mac user, your choice is either some crappy AIR app for pownce, or the beautiful and simple Twitterific by the icon factory. That alone is why I twitter more than I pownce.
It's genuinely great to see you back on Twitter, Leo. I tried out Jaiku a while ago and while I really like some of its features, your #4 reason hit it right on the head for me: I'm on Twitter because of the community here.
For what it's worth though, I use Brett Terpstra's MoodBlast utility to post to Twitter, Jaiku, Facebook, Tumblr, iChat/Adium/Skype all at once:
http://blog.circlesixdesign.com/download/moodswing/
It could be a way for you to continue posting in both places. I keep Twitterrific (which has a great new version, by the way) and MoodBlast running both at the same time, and Brett has a new MoodBlast coming with some significant performance enhancements and reduced resources.
Tech talk aside, it's great to see you back in the Twitter community.
Awesome, welcome back to the family Leo.
Great list. Looks like something David Letterman would have come up with. Glad to see you back.
You realise, of course, that by trying to stop Scoble, you only magnify his power?
Picture the Emperor from Return of the Jedi:
"witness the power of this fully operational Scoblestation."
Glad to see you're back. And even the real you this time.
And here I was the whole time thinking because you were desperate to follow your favourite listener in Singapore ;-).
I'm a bit agitated though as a Mac user now that Twitterrific shows ads. I'm all for helping developers create beautiful apps, but forcing ads instead of having a paid version seems to rub me the wrong way.
The alternative is Snitter, but it's been really buggy and keeps pestering me constantly for my Keychain password (I lock my keychain 24/7 on a Standard Mac account not an Administrator for security reasons). It's probably a problem with Adobe Air and not with Snook's fine work though.
I noticed you're just posting from the Web for now too. I'm not sure what to do!
Leo, great to see you back on Twitter. You should follow me :) http://www.twitter.com/mager
@Ruben: Not to hijack the thread here or anything, but you *can* register Twitterrific 3.0 for $15 at Iconfactory.com.
Okay. I'm buying that its really you now. So when do you add me to your list?
Not to be an ass (more so, rather) but any further comments on the reason why you left Twitter in the first place?
That is, what happened to your concerns about people being confused about TWiT and Twitter?
Cheers
Tony Hung.
Ruben Schade: Twitterific is $15 for the non-ad version:
http://iconfactory.com/software/twitterrific
I'm sorry I should clarify what I meant about Twitterrific. I meant to say that I dislike being told as a user of their software that suddenly I either have to pay or get ads. I could understand if they released a "premium" version, but the way it stands now I'm stuck with version 2.x until I can decide whether or not I want to pay for it.
There's always Twitter.com and Camino I guess :-)
[...] Jaiku, Comes Back To Twitter. November 11th, 2007 at 2:25 am Update @ 11/12/07 ~ 1200h: Looks like Leo gives 10 reason why he’s back. Nothing so far about his concerns about TWiT / Twitter [...]
Leo,
I am 14, and I still you are cool enough to Twitter! When I talk to the Twitter, mostly Biz and Jack, we talk about you a lot, on how you started a Twitter revolution!
Daniel Brusilovsky
P.S Thanks for being on Apple Universe again!
Two question, First how exactly are you going to stop Scoble? and secondly when you follow me on Twitter?
So I take it that means your intellectual property concerns are taken care of?
I am moving back to Twitter too. I use Twitter for fast posts and Pownce for more in depth posts. The same is ture of my tumblr and wordpress blogs. Tumblr is for fast posts that I may come back to and refine on wordpress.
Twitter also seems to have WAY more "Apps" compared to Pownce or Jaiku. I say Apps as in uses of the Twitter API.
http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps <- See that for a huge list (twitter fan wiki)
I use Twitter in Adium, which is add-free, and works nicely.
Sounds like some solid reasons there Leo.
-A
I'm very glad you're back on Twitter! If anyone can stop Scoble, it's Leo. I believe!
Moodblast is awesome, David. Thanks for the tip!
Regarding the IP concerns: I think Twitter and TWiT are sufficiently established brands in different enough spaces that any confusion is now minimal. At least I'm hoping so!
Leo, You never really left Twitter
http://twitter.com/leomatic
Thanks for the plug, David. And Leo, if you dig the current incarnation, you'll love the next one ;).