Posts Tagged ‘twitter’

Yesterday, Andy Leonard and Jessica Moss announced that their Wednesday 3pm class on SSIS scripting will cover Twitter integration. In today’s SSIS Boot Camp by Brian Knight, I spoke with some DBAs about the Twitter idea.  The initial reaction has been, “Why would you want to do that?  Twitter is so unreliable.”
True: us database administrators [...]

@AndyLeonard: “You got your SSIS in my Twitter!”
@JessicaMMoss: “You got your Twitter in my SSIS!”
That’s right, like peanut butter and jelly, we’ve got a hookup that produces better than the sum of its parts.  Andy and Jessica will be unveiling their magic at their PASS session on Wednesday at 3pm in room 602.  I’ll be [...]

Want to meet your mostest favoritest Houston tweeps and talk trash about your leastest favoritest ones?  Coffee Groundz in Midtown is hosting a Twitter party on Sunday, November 2nd from 2pm to 6pm.
Those of you who follow me on Twitter or on BrightKite know that I’m here all the time - I’m typing this from [...]

So somebody talked you into using Twitter, and now you’ve got a few questions.  Here’s a few answers in no particular order:
RT = ReTweet
It’s like forwarding, but for Twitters instead of emails.  If you see something really cool from one of the people you follow, you may want to ReTweet it so that the people [...]

Twitter is like public instant messaging. Users like me post short notes, and anybody who follows a Twitter user gets a copy of the message. You get a stream-of-consciousness view into some of the most interesting people on the web. (That’s not to say I’m one of the most interesting people on [...]