Disclose Your AOL Instant Messenger Screen Name On Twitter
Last night I was browsing through Twitter looking for a few more interesting people to follow on Twitter. By chance I landed on Jessica Mah. I knew a little about Jessica, mostly that she was another young entrepreneur, and figured she would be interesting to follow.
Within a few minutes I received an instant message from someone who wasn’t on my buddy list. Obviously enough it was Jessica, her opening message went a little like this,
“Hey its Jessica Mah, I found your IM on twitter!”
From there me and Jessica went on to have a lengthy conversation about anything and everything. Rather than simply relying on Twitter to “meet” people, AOL instant messenger gave me the opportunity to truly “get to know” someone. From here I expect me and Jessica to chat a few more times and ultimately hang out this summer in San Francisco while we both try out some internships ( I will be at Revision3, Jessica will choose her next home within the next few weeks ).
So what are you waiting for? If you aren’t super private or shy, I highly recommend that you throw up some more contact info on Twitter. You never know when you will stumble upon some interesting conversation!
side note: Obviously AOL instant messenger isn’t the only program that allows you to chat with new found friends. Using any instant messenger service works in this situation, I just prefer AOL instant messenger.
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April 30th, 2008 at 3:07 pm
Good idea, AJ. I like the way you’ve implemented it. I’ll have to do something like that when I have a sec.
April 30th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Did you know that you can use make your email address an AIM screen name? It’s been available for a while, but I don’t see too many people using it. I do. Your screen name can actually be yourname@yourdomain.com. Like this (assuming your comments allow XHTML): go aim Some clients even then allow you to email someone by clicking on their screen name in an AIM conversation.
It also makes for extremely obnoxious long screen names! Yaay!
They are also (slowly) adding OpenID into the AIM network. I don’t know if that means you’ll eventually be able to use an existing OpenID as a screen name, but it may let you use your screen name to access other OpenID accessible sites in the future.
August 29th, 2008 at 10:41 am
hey I want to know can we access the chat what we have done yestarday and last week, because I have a important information to get so please email me how can I get the converstion done in the last week or yestarday, please email me as soon as possible
Thanks
Chandrashekar