I am using Twitter for over 2 years. For those 2 years, I have been tweeting only in English as my followers are not only Greeks. Recently, I decided to start tweeting in Greek as well and just right then I got informed that my replies are only shown in people that follow both of us, me and the person I am replying to. To be honest, I was finding hard to believe it in the first place.
I find it really pointless and I can’t understand why twitter’s developers took that decision. Twitter is a great tool to discover new people, new ways of thinking and other cultures than yours. In my opinion, the best way to do that is through interactions between users. I ‘ll give you an example to make it more clear: Let’s say that I am user A and I am interested in cars. User B is a well known journalist specializing in car news. Of course, I am following user B. If User B starts a very interesting conversation with user C (that I don’t follow) about cars. If I knew that such conversation exist, I will definitely follow it and, why not, I may jump in. Either way, I will start following user C as we have something in common.
But now, Twitter doesn’t allow me to do so because.. I don’t know that these kind of conversations actually exist. And that phenomenon removes much of Twitter’s potential in my opinion. Twitter is about openness and sharing everything with everyone. That’s why timelines are by default public and not private like Facebook. I would really love if someone from Twitter could explain me the reason behind this..
Feel like following me? There’s my username: @dkalo.
I love using Twitter, it’s a great tool both for work and fun. The truth is, that I have met people from all over the world, virtually or in real life, and the best way to communicate and interact with them is by using the English language. However, most of the people I am following are Greeks and they mostly use the Greek language in their tweets.
So, from now on, I will be using both languages in my tweets. Most of my tweets will be in English but those commenting on Greek reality or anything Greece-related will be in Greek. This way, I ‘ll be able to communicate better with the rest of the Greeks and the English speaking people won’t lose time reading tweets that don’t make sense.
If you still wan’t to follow me on twitter, here’s my profile: @dkalo.
The truth is that since the day I first installed WordPress and started blogging on dkalo.com I haven’t spent a single minute caring about it’s technical side. It was all about blogging and writing. A couple of days ago, my hosting plan expired and I either had to find a new host or to renew my subscription.
To be totally honest, I wanted to change my host but all the other solutions I found out there where for a year and I can’t commit for such a long period. As a result, I just renewed my current hosting plan. However, I made a clean installation of the brand new -and totally awesome- WordPress 3.0. Since I host all my photos on flickr.com, it was really easy to restore my old posts. I just uploaded the old XML and.. voila!
The theme, as you can see, is completely new. It’s the iBlog from Pagelines. Also, I installed some plugins. First of all, Google XML sitemaps because SEO is really important nowadays. Then, I installed the “Facebook like” button because.. well, every blog must has this button. Some social features are included in the theme by default. Of course, Akismet is here as well to protect me from spam comments. What I also updated is the contact page and the about me page. More information about me and my interests, and definitely more accurate as the old page was outdated.
As it is right now, I like my new blog but I ‘d love to hear some of your feedback and your thoughts about it. Can’t wait! 
