I was out messing around a bit and landed on this somewhat new social network communication site called twttr which is the offspring of odeo. It’s sort of a cool idea. You register for free to set yourself up and then add your friends mobile numbers or email addresses and it allows you to shoot them messages through the site from the site or from your mobile phone.

Once I checked it out, I wondered about how it could be practically used and the only idea that I came up with is that if you only included a group of people in your twttr “network” that you communicate with about a specific topic, like a user group or a ball team. You can shoot everyone a quick SMS/TXT message without having to type all the recipient’s names.

One idea is to allow me to take a quick picture with my phone and then use twttr to shoot that photo out to everyone on my list. I tested this with my wife’s phone and it didn’t work. Bummer.

Here’s my test post. Some things I don’t like about this is that if I were to add a picture to this post, there is no option other than to not upload the picture or to upload it using ftp. I am hoping for Flickr support. I also don’t have any category options, which kind of sucks as well.

What’s nice is that I have all the options available to me from MS Word so I can do all sorts of cool formatting, etc if I chose to. What I was wondering about is that if I did choose to do some formatting directly in Word, would it over write what CSS otherwise manages for me on my WordPress site. Here’s a trial to see what happens:

I am BOLD.

I am Italic.

I am Underlined.

I am RED and BOLD.

It worked, obviously. I chose the publish as draft option, went to WordPress and reviewed the post. The issue other than the ones I mentioned above is that it timestamped it as December 31, 1969 @ 17:59. I wasn’t born yet, by the way. I had to change that manually, as I did the categories.