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Newgrounds Official Twitter!

Posted by WadeFulp - January 19th, 2009


I've been playing around on Twitter for a few months now and thought I'd set up an official Newgrounds Twitter. I wanted twitter.com/newgrounds, but someone already took it. Maybe they will hand it over, but my repeated attempts to have Twitter support get it for me have failed. Maybe they couldn't confirm I was who I said I was. They just seem to ignore my requests now.

So I set up http://www.twitter.com/newgrounds_com

What is Twitter? Basically it's micro-blogging. When you post something it is called a Tweet. You might post something like "Playing COD5 on XBL!" or "Check out this cool website, newgrounds.com!" etc. You can follow people who you find interesting, and people can follow you. CNN, Foxnews, etc, have used Twitter to successfully build up a large number of followers. They can bounce questions off their followers, inform their followers about upcoming broadcasts, etc.

I'm not sure what all we will do with a newgrounds_com Twitter. Probably post links to cool content, maybe some behind the scenes info, or whatever. People can also re-tweet a tweet. So if newgrounds_com tweets a cool link you can re-tweet it to your followers and so on.

Many people use Twitter from mobile devices like iPhones, blackberrys, or any cell phone that can text. Or you can use the web browser interface.

If you are already on Twitter feel free to follow newgrounds_com, and I will set it to follow you. If you aren't on Twitter, check it out as it is easy to set up a new account.

Some of the NG staff have Twitter accounts. Well, at least Mike and I do. If you want to follow me, I'm http://www.twitter.com/wadeng. I just post about the stupid stuff I'm up to.

You can also attach pictures to Tweets, at least I can with my iPhone. So I may take a picture of what I'm doing, etc. There are some cool iPhone/iTouch Twitter clients such as Twinkle, Tweetie, Twitterfon, etc.

If you are already established on Twitter feel free to spread the word that we have an official account there now. :)


Comments

just for fun... 1st

Quite worthless in my opinion. Why can't we incorporate this idea into Newgrounds. Oh wait, we do! It's called the personal blog!

Twitter reaches a different audience. It also can be accessed from mobile devices. NG needs to beef up it's friend list features. Like if I post on my blog it could post a notice to anyone who is my buddy, or following me, etc.

<a href="http://twitter.com/wadeng">http://twitter.com/wadeng</a> link don't work...
you have to use Caps for it
<a href="http://twitter.com/WadeNG">http://twitter.com/WadeNG</a>
is strange
=D

Works for me. ? :)

Cool beans!

O.o... it didn't worked the first time
well anyway, looks good

<a href="http://twitter.com/newground">http://twitter.com/newground</a> is available if you want to do the opposite of what tom had to do with this domain

"I just post about the stupid stuff I'm up to."
finding new ways to advertise newgrounds eh wadey?

You should like use TweetDeck that way you can upload a photo to TwitPic and it will put the photo link in automatically

I recently joined twitter, I'm following you and the Newgrounds account!

I use Twitterfox, which is a cool app which notifies me in the corner of my screen when someone updates something on Twitter, I can also update from the same app.

Nah, I enjoy calling you and anyone else who twitters a twit. :)

I know how you feel, the same douchebag that has <a href="http://www.twitter.com/nirajshah">http://www.twitter.com/nirajshah</a> also owns <a href="http://www.nirajshah.com">http://www.nirajshah.com</a>. He doesn't even use it for anything!

<a href="http://www.twitter.com/theotherniraj">http://www.twitter.com/theotherniraj</a> and <a href="http://www.twitter.com/browncommachris">http://www.twitter.com/browncommachri s</a> if anyone wants to follow us.

you never cease to impress me mr.fulp

Nice. I'll follow it.

I would take up your offer but after that hacking incident, i am having major second thoughts. You see if they can hack celebrities accounts, then they could just as easily hack my future account.And I really don't what people hacking into my stuff. SO unless you can give me a 100% that it is safe, than for me it is a no go.

Twitter found out how they hacked those accounts (including mine, I was one of the 33), and put a stop to it. It should be safe now. Just use a unique password so if someone would hack it they can't use the password for anything else.

Looks great! Too bad about the username though, shorter version will probaby get much more visitors.

I'm really happy to see NewGrounds use Twitter.
*Follows on the phone*

ur not a bitch

Wow, Twitter aint half as good as i thought it would be.

Fuck I twitter now.

me likey^^

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