HurtingDad

Is it just my browser, or is this or a normal fixture on this board? If it's a way to get some bucks to support good works...I understand that. Just surprised to see it on the left hand margin.

Hollyanne

Hi Hurting, I wrote to contact email, but they said write to mulligangroup as they control website!!! Isn't it really obnoxious? Right in front of everything you want to look at quickly. The sooner everybody gets on their case, the better. Tried emailing the link but wouldn't load.

bookwyrm

There is a tech forum on SR that tells you how to get rid of the tweet icon - but only if you use Firefox I think. Have a look: Technical Issues - SoberRecovery : Alcoholism Drug Addiction Help and Information

pixilation

Yeah, I usually use Firefox, and had to open the site in IE just to see what this Tweet button was. I don't see it all with Firefox(which I have tricked out with all the security add ons)

Bernadette

It makes me feel nervous - like at any moment someone could cut and past something you've posted and tweet it to the world...even though this is a public internet forum (and therefore all of our posts go out to the world!) that tweet tab just feels like an invasion or a spy! Perception.....
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wicked

yeah, that was my feeling too bernadette. i couldnt put my finger on it, but it was icky, i dont like the whole tweet thing, and having it where i didnt ask for it is an invasion of sorts.

Beth

smacked

It links directly to the Twitter account for SR. Which is full of 'posts' about various treatment centers (ads.cough.ads), how to find them, etc..

Kinda freaky.. I almost want to post something, but I'm scared of what it will link back to! Totally lame IMO.

Learn2Live

I'm not sure what it does. Does anyone know?

smacked

You hit it, type something, and it "tweets" to the SR Twitter account page. Thus far, it's just full of ads. Not gonna try it to see how it works ..lol

Tally

It's basically a tool for those members that use Twitter. If you log into your Twitter account via the Tweets tab then you can tweet directly to the SR Twitter page without having to go to the Twitter website and login there.

It's summat to do with making forums more social, an integration tool for VBulletin..like a plugin, you can get them for Facebook n stuff too. I can see it being useful for a lot of people, but seeing that you need to use your Twitter account, it kinda takes away the anonymity of SR for me so I won't be using it.

Still Waters

I could make a new twitter account for it, just to annoy

Still Waters

Seems to me, we should be able to read tweets on it too...it's kinda useless.

Live

I don't know a dang thing about twitter but it makes me uncomfortable.

SteppingUp

Makes me very uncomfortable as well.

Learn2Live

Ditto on the discomfort. Does how we feel about it matter? I have a boundary issue with it. Feels like a violation.

Learn2Live

Does anybody know if this mean that my posts about my family can show up on twitter?

smacked

I went ahead and gave it a whirl with my twitter account.. all it did was post what my "comment" was on my own page, it had nothing to do with the SR page, or a link between the two.. so I think we're safe

Learn2Live

Thanks Smacked