I Gave Up To Twitter. Have You?
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on June 10, 2007,
I was laughing at Twitter, I thought it was absolutely useless and saw no sense at all. But after at least 10 people asked how could I, a blogger, avoid twittering I finally gave up. It proved easier than I thought and takes less time (check this post by Robert Sanzalone on twittering from Skype, this makes using Twitter incredibly easy). So after I found a way to Twitter and get updates from people I'm interested in easily I was hooked. But that's no news, I've already seen many bloggers write similar revelations.
What I wanted to do actually is to post a small poll here about your usage of Twitter and simultaneously test the updated SodaHead widget. We have already reviewed SodaHead on Profy and recently received an update from the developers on the major update of the widget - now they call it "the best polling widget on the planet". So what's new in this widget?
The polling widget allows zoom detail of pictures (in the previous review we mentioned that SodaHead was unlike other polling tools in that it allowed for adding images to your polls). Besides, votes are tracked without cookies. You can create a poll with more than 10 answers and allow for people to comment on votes. Besides, the poll widget uses Flash and thus ensures two advantages: first, it eliminates the JavaScript security issues and second, users don't leave your page so you won't lose your traffic.
These new features really sounded interesting so I decided to try this updated widget out and get to know attitude of Profy readers towards Twitter. It actually takes just a couple of minutes to create a poll (provided that you have all the answers and media ready). It works rather fast, you can easily add media (photos or videos) both to the question itself and to the answers. SodaHead also provides a number of options for you to make the poll private (available only to people you send it to via a link or embedding) or public and available to all the SodaHead community. It also offers you to choose from a number of typical answers (such as "All of the above" or "None of the above (leave a comment)"). After creating the poll you will be able to vote yourself and share the poll with your friends by email (it also supports extraction of email addresses from your current email accounts), as a URL or by embedding it to your own blog post or profile. I chose to embed it and copied the code to paste it into this post. Actually I do think there's still some room for improvement (to actually become "the best polling widget on the planet"): they could add some flexibility for customization of the widget for it to resemble the look and feel of the blog or website you embed the widget to. In this event it will be nearly perfec.
So what is your attitude towards Twitter?
