bitcolumns » facebook http://www.bitcolumns.com tech news that matters Sun, 11 Apr 2010 07:41:10 +0000 en hourly 1 Shake Shake, Shake Shake, a Shake Shed http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/05/25/shake-shake-shake-shake-a-shake-shed/ http://www.bitcolumns.com/2009/05/25/shake-shake-shake-shake-a-shake-shed/#comments Mon, 25 May 2009 00:01:02 +0000 bitcolumns http://www.bitcolumns.com/?p=1573 We said we would be bringing some awesome offers to our readers, and thus far we kinda failed :( (unfortunately). But we are definitely working on it. But we do have one offer for those of you who live near bitcolumns towers, here in the south east of England. We have teamed up with our friends at Shake Shed in Canterbury to give all our readers, viewers, and listeners (on www.csrfm.com) and their friends, a very special Facebook related offer on some very tastey milkshakes.

If you join the Shake Shed Canterbury facebook group on or before Tuesday the 26th May, you and one of your friends will be in for a great treat. On Wednesday 27th May, if you take a printout of the Facebook page to the Shake Shed, and buy any shake you friend (or you) will be able to enjoy a regular milkshake (any single flavour they want) for Half Price.

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Twitter is a site dedicated to these short, status update-esque, messages (140 characters long, to be precise), allowing you to update online, by text, with phone applications, and more. the idea is to quickly let everyone who follows you to know what you want them to know instantly. Popular updates include: location, going out for a party, found a brand new website, taken an interesting photo, and the standard, and omnipresent, “I’m bored” messages.

You can also follow other users, allowing you to see what they are up to, and reply directly to them as soon as they publish their update. This allows conversations to happen very easily, and quickly, from pretty much anywhere you can get a connection to a phone network. But this brings the major problem with Twitter: addiction.

Having used Twitter very recently, I have to admit that I am starting to become hooked on it myself. Checking every few minutes to see if someone has replied or published a good story, and then replying and waiting some more. It is very easy to become enthralled with such a simple concept.

Anyone can join at www.twitter.com, and best of all it is free. And as everyone needs someone they can follow, why not follow @smutchings and @bitcolumns. Giving you the updates on what is happening, as it happens, and we will follow you back. If you would like to sahre your ‘tweeting’ with other users here, just put your @username in your comment.

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