569021 Sat Nov 01 20:25:18 -0700 2008 14 33 Food Media and News 0 4143504 Anyone else here also talking about food on Twitter? Sat Nov 01 20:25:18 -0700 2008 22043 yehwan 1 4222727 Deathly silence! Come on peeps, 'fess up! http://twitter.com/GarySoup Fri Dec 05 08:17:13 -0800 2008 4143504 131118 Xiao Yang 2 4231014 http://twitter.com/cylin4 Guilty as charged. Mon Dec 08 18:41:25 -0800 2008 4222727 12836 Candice 3 4231256 Tnx. Maybe the ball will get rolling now. Mon Dec 08 20:31:14 -0800 2008 4231014 131118 Xiao Yang 4 4233346 You got the ball rolling w/ me, and I'm now following GarySoup and culin4.. I am http://twitter.com/ClaireWalter, and I post about food and lots of other topics. If more Hounds sign up, I'll incr food. Tue Dec 09 13:37:17 -0800 2008 4231256 54833 ClaireWalter 1 4237596 I thought it might or become a good marketing tool for restaurants. Let's say the bookings are low for a Monday night, why not send out a Twitter alert offering a special deal... free app or something? It would require a restuarant to build a Tweet following, but could be worth it. When you get a coupon for a place, you put it aside for 30 days. But a tweet implants a thought in the head. Wed Dec 10 20:24:03 -0800 2008 4143504 15036 tastyjon 2 4237633 Absolutely. Right now the only restos I know that use twitter locally to send out info are The Cheeseboard and Castagnola's, but there will probably be many. Not sure if I love or hate Twitter at this point; it's turned the iPhone into a technogeek's tomagotchi ;-) Wed Dec 10 20:40:46 -0800 2008 4237596 131118 Xiao Yang 1 4239958 We're on it! https://twitter.com/CHOW_com Thu Dec 11 15:06:45 -0800 2008 4143504 10086 davina 2 4240607 Yeah, CHOW started following me just in time to make a pitch for a nomination for a "Shorty" award. Other than that they've sent a recipe, but lots of sites are doing that. Thu Dec 11 19:25:41 -0800 2008 4239958 131118 Xiao Yang 3 4242255 I think you mean twecipe. We tweeted a twecipe. Fri Dec 12 12:09:50 -0800 2008 4240607 10086 davina 4 4242350 Twatever. Fri Dec 12 12:35:16 -0800 2008 4242255 131118 Xiao Yang 1 4242404 FWIW, I nominated @cheeseboard for a shorty award in the #food category for their conciseness and significance of their content. To see just how significant, check out their update history: http://twitter.com/cheeseboard Fri Dec 12 12:50:24 -0800 2008 4143504 131118 Xiao Yang 1 4242975 Saw this on Serious Eats a few weeks back. It's a list of food bloggers using Twitter. http://www.seriouseats.com/2008/09/a-list-of-food-bloggers-using-twitter.html Fri Dec 12 16:43:33 -0800 2008 4143504 13396 Velda Mae 2 4243999 Search http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23foodblogger will return a sort of "directory" of foodblogger who have "tagged" themselves. Sat Dec 13 09:23:48 -0800 2008 4242975 10527 hatchback 3 4244054 The problem is that there are so many foodblogs out there (chefblog.com lists over 1500, and I know it has missed some) and people who hash themselves as foodbloggers are probably mostly interested in promoting their own sites than making best use use of twitter (not to mention wasting 12 valuable characters). There are a wide range of interests; I have found myself unilaterally followed by bloggers dealing cookie recipes, and I haven't the slightest interest in cookie recipes. Personally, I'n not epecially looking for bloggers per se, just other chowhounds and other "end users" of food using twitter to put out real-time intelligence on what's good where and the like. ("X is in the kitchen tonight at Y and the Z is very good" or "It's slow at Resto XYZ tonight; there may be tables available," etc.) Sat Dec 13 09:55:52 -0800 2008 4243999 131118 Xiao Yang