I use Twitter Explorer in my Windows Sidebar. Sidebar is available in Vista and Win7, and there are many other widgets that make it fun (as long as you don't go nuts and slow down your machine). I keep a real-time traffic display, a weather image, and a CPU monitor up as well.

That sound very interesting. I'll go and check it out. Thank you. :)

I think I am even more "luddy" than you. I read tweets in my Google reader that aggregates them until I feel like reading. That seems just wrong.

Don't have a plan that would allow me to get them on my phone but I don't even text so why bother? :D

:) I don't have a text plan on my phone, either. Back when I made that decision, it was a pretty expensive option and I couldn't see me pressing tiny buttons repetitively to send text messages.

These days, my brother has unlimited talk+text on a plan that's cheaper than the limited minutes /no text plan I'm currently locked into. I will, eventually, get a new plan and one assumes a new phone. For now, though, I just want something that essentially does for Twitter what Thunderbird does for my e-mail: it gives me a small pop-up notice when I get a new message. Any technology that requires me to open a service regularly is going to fail for me. I have Google Reader and I don't think I've looked at it since...November? I haven't looked at Facebook since...a couple of months ago? I have many outlets in which to be absent. :)

Edited 2010-05-18 09:50 pm (UTC)