by Latoya Peterson
I blame Carmen.
She has decided Racialicious needs to be on Twitter.
So now I’m on Twitter. Well, technically we. The official Racialicious Twitter feed is now live.
Add us if you’d like.
(And why no, I have no idea how I am going to communicate in 140 characters when our normal blog posts are 3 pages long. Why do you ask?)
If you’ve got ideas, tips, or a cool profile, leave me a message in the comments.
Just sigh at the inevitability of it.:D
niiice!
http://www.Twitter.com/DeafMuslim
if anyone wanna follow me.
I’m @knitmeapony over there — I use it to tweet about 18-25 links a day, everything from kitty pictures to political news to hippy liberal screeds.
I’ve tweeted (or re-tweeted) quite a few articles from this site, too.
Welcome to Twitter, I’m kind of a huge nerd for it, so feel free to dm or @reply any questions you might have to me.
Thanks Laurie! And yes, put your name in here so I know to look for you! I already got TCS, looking for UDMPG…
I would really like to see articles that the authors come across that are similar to the stories that appear here, but maybe don’t merit a while post, or would otherwise take too long to post. Act as a filter for everyone else on race related issues. Sharing links on twitter takes all of 30 seconds (use tiny it tiny URL service- you can track how many people you drove to the site). Also post when you update the blog. Twitter updates faster than most RSS feeds, and people check them more often.
Don’t feel bad, it happens to the best of us. For e.g.: @theapants
@ Racialicious,
Thanks for the add. My twitter-name is: arimathea74. 
Welcome! (Is it just me or has Twitter blown up in the last week?) I don’t have a cool profile or anything but I’m not totally boring… @shani_o
And PostBourgie is on Twitter, too, but G.D. hasn’t posted about it yet. @postbourgie.
Yesterday Stephen Colbert used “twote” as the past tense of the verb. I don’t Twitter, but that is my new favorite word.
Ugh, twitter.
Erm, well I guess you could write up summary’s and link to articles on there?
My condolences.
Use twitterfeed for Racialicious posts.
I’m restruct.
Yay!
Dammit.
I was hoping to completely avoid Twitter.
Okay Andrea, you win. Again.
Don’t gloat, it is unbecoming in a lady.
…Sigh.
I heart Twitter!
http://twitter.com/msfour
Also, please do more than just link to blog posts. That gets old for your followers, who probably already subscribe in a reader.
I like the idea of a 140 character limit. Constraint spurs creativity. I’ve never had a blog before, and this might be a good way to put my thoughts out there.
I am concerned about the possible repercussions if I were to say something objectionable and someone at work read it. A common blogging dilemma, of course. How have y’all handled it?
(I am not using a pseudonym.)
Thanks everyone!
@Ms.Four – No, I plan to do more than that. Probably stuff I like, blog posts we’re thinking about, cool ideas, comments from the other correspondents, things like that. I’ll include blog posts in that.
@Elton –
140 characters can’t normally scratch what I am thinking. I’ll make it work though. Twitter Haiku freestyle.
And repercussions are a huge thing. We just decide if what we have to say is worth taking the consequences for. Sorry to say that’s the best advice I can give. One advantage of doing things under your real name is that no one can “out” you. So that’s a plus.
Are you going to be ONLY on Twitter, or you’ll be multi-tasking between both there and this blog? Aww…
I only just started to really get into this blog (yeah, I’m lazy, and I adjust to new stuff badly).
@golby260 –
No need to fret – Racialicious is still here in full force. The Twittering is an extension of what we do here, not a replacement.
Ah, ok. *brushes away brow* ^^; I’ve just started to look into Twitter, now.
(Yay )
Since I’m not a big fan of RSS feeds, but I am a big fan of twitter, maybe twitting/tweeting/whatevering when a new article is up would be interesting!
@Joseph–in the immortal words of Nelly Furtado and Timbaland: “Don’t get mad/don’t be mean.”
::Chesire-cat smile::
Haaa! Finally broke down eh? Me too . . . but not before I did some reading up on how to make this whole twitter thing useful! Im: leftyswag
Oh but Twitter is great. Just watch out for the famous names because some of them are fake accounts like Maya Angelou. I didn’t think it was her but I did get happy for a minute or two at the prospect. On the other hand Jane Fonda does have an account, it’s legit and she’s actually writing not an assistant. Carmen was one of the first to follow me.
I added you to my twitter as well. womanistmusings
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of New Demographic, a diversity education firm. Her perspectives on race and diversity have been featured on CNN, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today, and The New York Times.
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