Twitter me hungry
Friday, March 13, 2009 | 08:25 AM ET
by Amber Hildebrandt, CBCNews.ca
Ask my friends about Twitter and they will no doubt roll their eyes and point to me, the sudden convert who won’t stop evangelizing about the micro-blogging platform. The truth is I’m no tech nerd but I know a foodie opportunity when I see one.
Where once I relied solely on my lengthy list of bookmarked food blogs, I now tend to visit one page, Twitter, where I can keep tabs on my friends, famous chefs and my favourite food blogs. I liken it to my own personalized RSS feed.
It can be overwhelming at first, this world where a thought must fit 140 characters and so-called Tweets, or updates, have adopted their own shorthand. But once I got past the lingo, I became an almost instant addict.
Unlike Facebook, where you can post status updates, photographs and almost any and every little detail about your life, the restraints of Twitter, where you can only post updates and links, are somewhat refreshing. More than a blog or Facebook, it acts like a conversation within an online community.
And I'm always learning something. Things I learned in the past few hours:
- New York Times's Amanda Hesser tweeted that author Michael Pollan is looking for readers to submit “food rules” they live by.
- You can thaw fish in milk for fresher flavour, says Foodimentary.
- And who knew there was such a thing as pizza with buffalo chicken stuffed into the crust?
Really, how could you not love Twitter?
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Amber Hildebrandt writes for CBCNews.ca in Toronto. Growing up on a farm in Manitoba, she acquired an insatiable appetite, but it was during a stint in Japan that she developed her discerning tastebuds and "foodie" ways.
Andrea Chiu is an associate producer at CBC Radio Digital. Though she loves to eat, cook and discuss food,
don't ask her to bake. It never turns out well. She tweets as @TOfoodie on Twitter and organizes food and wine events in Toronto called FoodieMeet.
Tara Kimura is the consumer life reporter for CBCNews.ca, covering a wide range of issues that range from rising food costs and the growing organic movement, to new trends in the marketplace.
Andree Lau is a CBC web reporter in Calgary. Her journalism career includes seven years as a CBC-TV reporter. Her own blog called "are you gonna eat that?" chronicles her eating adventures (including sampling snake and camel hoof tendon).
Jessica Wong is a CBCNews.ca writer who loves to eat and cook, as well as discuss, read and watch programming about food, sometimes all at once.
Kevin Yarr, CBCNews.ca's writer in Prince Edward Island, wrote about food and beer for national and regional magazines before joining the CBC. He acquired a desire for new tastes on his first trip to Europe, and an appreciation of eating locally and in season when he finally settled down on P.E.I.
Elizabeth Bridge is a writer with the CBC Digital Archives in Toronto. She first ventured into the kitchen as a child to indulge a sweet tooth by baking cookies and making fudge. A student budget compelled her to be a vegetarian (for a while) and instilled in her an ongoing curiosity about food and cooking.
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Paul Melara
Kitchener
I can NOT love twitter because it just shows how real of people these "celebrities" are. They have random and almost just absurd thoughts as you do, we just don't have a PR rep telling us we can't say certain things.
How can you anyone look at Twitter and call it a personalized news feed. Sure if you filter out all the junk, and by junk I mean peoples completely absurd random thoughts, like my own. I use Twitter, but thats because the internet lacks something consistent, Twitter is infact that. Consistent. Always updated always something new, even if its entirely irrelevant to anything pertaining to anything.
Add melarayourmom -.-, the irony of hating something and and using it.
Posted April 8, 2009 10:25 AM