Twitter?

[bluebug32]

Does anyone here use Twitter.com? I just started (I'm wordplay1) and it's kind of fun and addictive. Would be nice to have more bikers on the site and an interesting way to track and encourage people to keep riding.

[Reesha]

BUMP!

I also use twitter :)

http://www.twitter.com/larissapowers

Today I'm discovering just how many tweeting pro racers there are. It's so awesome to get the feed from the Tour... especially when they give so many little details about life during the race!

http://www.twitter.com/CadelOfficial
http://www.twitter.com/LeviLeipheimer
http://www.twitter.com/LanceArmstrong
http://www.twitter.com/dzabriskie
http://www.twitter.com/ChristianVDV
http://www.twitter.com/ghincapie
http://www.twitter.com/mcewenrobbie
http://twitter.com/Bradwiggins

[Possegal]

Of the 20 something folks I follow, all but maybe 3 are pro cyclists or cycling related. :) My friends have decided this is more proof of my lameness. :)

Lance posted a list of all the tour riders who are on twitter. Andy Schleck was my latest to start following.

[Biciclista]

of the pro racers that you follow, which are the ones that are giving the best tidbits?

[Possegal]

Lance and Levi are great since they post videos too, which are fun. I enjoy Hincape. Zabriske is funny, not really "informative" if you will, but funny. VandeVelde had been rather talkative of late. Andy hasn't said much, but I'll keep following. Robbie Hunter isn't in the Tour this year but I follow him and he's always pretty opinionated and fun. I also follow the official Tour site which links to articles, and a writer for eurosport yahoo called blazing saddles (saddleblaze on twitter) who says a lot of things mainstream journalist never would. Some I may agree with, others I don't, but still interesting to read.

I'll post again after watching my twitter feed a little more and recommend any others. I follow Bobke, Phil and Paul, though they seem to leave most of their information for the broadcast. :)

[Biciclista]

thank you!!
I can only view twitter from home.. but when i get home i will check some of these guys out!

[Reesha]

hehe I'm amused that Levi uses txt talk. :D

"I'm honestly lost 4 words! That was an incredible lifetime experience, I have 2 say it was mixture of excitement, aggression, fear & elation"

[TrekTheKaty]

Thanks, Reesha. I've got Lance, George and Levi set up on my iphone:D Only three more weeks to go!

[Possegal]

Here's Andy - see, he's so cute :)

andy_schleck Chapeau to Astana that was a stunning performance

[TxDoc]

yep, twitter user here too :)

[colby]

Thanks for the great cycling twitter feeds! I am on twitter as @colbinator (http://twitter.com/colbinator) but it's usually a mess of random work and not work things (along with strange vanity license plates I see on the road) ;)

[Biciclista]

i might be @mimitb but i don't post much on twitter

[Reesha]

Here's a more comprehensive list of Twittering pros!


http://mashable.com/2009/02/26/twitter-cyclists/

[firenze11]

Not a cycling related twitter user, but a very cool one: John Quincy Adams (http://twitter.com/jqadams_mhs) The Mass. Historical Society is tweeting his one line diary entries from 1809.

I guess this goes to show that you're never to old for new technology. ;)

[spazzdog]

I'm @spazzdog but have never posted... that may change in the future as I get back into the saddle (and update my crackberry software)

spazz

[ny biker]

I signed up for twitter just to follow various cyclists and related folks. I love it when Brad Wiggins drunk-tweets. And I really enjoy Taylor Phinney's tweets - he's kind of a nutty kid.

Btw Lance posted photos of the most adorable baby shoes today.

[Pan Dulce]

I saw him post those shoes. I thought they were pretty cute, too! I was wondering if he had them specially made..

[ZooZoo]

I'm on twitter, but very new. @OneGirlRev

[Possegal]

Wiggins has cracked me up. He'll comment about being hung over and then saying how he better get back on his bike. One said something like "time to be a cyclist again". Nice to know even the pros find it hard to get back on. :) He's really cracked me up.

[ASammy1]

I'm twitter.com/samandrea

[ny biker]

We have this today from Brad Wiggins:

Done it, Monday morning and managed to crack the weekend without drinking a drop of alcohol. I am a bike rider again! Sweet.

(I love this guy.)

This is from Chris Horner (@hornerakg):

Was looking at the start list at Tour de L'Ain. There is a kid here born in 1990. I did my first race in1985

All you master racers. Burn a candle for me, maybe two just in case.

[tride]

I'm slightly nervous to post my full name here but since it's how I tweet, here goes. I follow mostly fellow women racers, tho. I race with/for/sponsored by the US Women's Cycling Development Program team (USWCDP) so can follow me (almost all my tweets are cycling related~my facebook is more personal/family random acts of weirdness stuff) with USWCDP (and the rest of the team~well, those that will tweet) & by my name, KimberlyGress.

I post under both but under my name more often than not. :)

Go female cyclists!!

[ny biker]

Just saw this -- Yield to Life, DZ's organization for cyclist's rights, is now on twitter: @Yield2Life.

[GreatPaws]

Wow! Thanks for posting these links! I hate trying to search by topic on twitter...

I"m @GreatPaws .....

[mariacycle]

BUMP!

I'm @mariacycle, is anyone else still using Twitter??

[bluebug32]

Here's my Twitter page: http://twitter.com/#!/BethTrickett I mainly Tweet cycling-related thoughts/content.

[shootingstar]

Ok, these are somewhat business/semi-professional related twitter pages that I tweet to/as twitter account co-owner:

http://twitter.com/Velocity2012
( or @velocity2012 )

http://twitter.com/3rdwavecycling

Yea, I know there are overlap tweets. There are different audiences/readers per twitter page whatever. I haven't taken time to do much dialogue nor follow others-- yet. (Yea, I do alot of blogging.) Yea, I must be a non-twitter hermit. :o Any suggestions how I can do this without cluttering up with too much extraneous stuff on twitter page?

Searching on twitter? Anyone got tips? I've given up because 140 character messages tend to be cryptic by necessity. Therefore any retrospective searching is highly restrictive. I get the impression Twitter.com doesn't keep much backdated tweets.

However if Google buys Twitter, maybe something different will evolve. Find that kind of hard to believe if there is still 140 character limit for comprehensive content value.

[ny biker]

I'm still on it but only as a news/entertainment feed -- I rarely post anything.

I haven't been able to read it today because I don't want to see who won Flanders -- I'm watching it now on the DVR.

I like Fabian Cancellara's tweets, and of course iamtedking. Graham Watson sometimes uploads photos to twitter before a race is even over.

Non-cycling, Albert Brooks recently signed up and has been pretty funny. Simon Pegg is also good, and Denis Leary's 140 character summary of Irish history was hysterical.

[ny biker]

This is excellent -- just posted by Paul Sherwen, who is visiting Denver for the first time ever:

Flippin heck, heard that Colorado was beautiful dead right- gorgeous day. PS taxi driver is Somali & we're speaking Swahili