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with James (Jim) Walker

James (Jim) Walker
James (Jim) Walker needs your nomination for a Shorty Award!
Cruise safety advocate. Maritime lawyer helping cruise passengers and crew members worldwide. Partner to @MaritimeLawyers. Duke basketball fan.
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What's your best tweet?
Royal Caribbean sails to its trademarked fantasy island of Labadee® as Haiti suffers
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What are six things you could never do without?
coffee, beer, & the 4 hours between the 2 . . .
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How do you use Twitter in your professional life?
if it involves a cruise, you will hear it from me first
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What's your favorite Twitter app?
Tweetdeck
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Twitter or Facebook?
A machine gun or a pea shooter? I choose Twitter
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What was the funniest trend you've seen?
Once it's a trend it's no longer funny
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What feature should Twitter add?
Video skype
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Who do you wish had a Twitter feed but doesn't?
my Dad, the master story-teller, 81 years young
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What are some words or phrases you refuse to shorten for brevity?
Corporate malfeasance, flag-of-convenience
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Is there someone you want to follow you who doesn't already? If so, who?
Dalai Lama
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Have you ever unfollowed someone? Who and why?
yes, a few of those Do NOT Pay for White Teeth people snuck into my tent
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Why should we vote for you?
I had big ears, buck teeth, and stuttered in grade school - now I just stutter
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Terms you wish would start trending on Twitter right now?
Saints Win Superbowl
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What's the most interesting connection you've made through Twitter?
cruise passenger tweeting on the deck of a burning cruise ship
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Hashtag you created that you wish everyone used?
#cruiselaw
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How do you make your tweets unique?
cruise law, cruise law, cruise law, no one does it as timely, consistently, or insightfully
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What inspires you to tweet?
Herman Melville said something in Moby Dick about the mutual joint-stock world we live in . . .
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Ever get called out for tweeting too much?
not so far, I assume people just leave the party if they don't like my rants
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140 characters of advice for a new user?
don't type in caps it is a sign of insanity
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How long can you go without a tweet?
1/2 circulation of the earth
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What question are we not asking here that we should?
Who should win the Shorty award other than you?
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Who do you admire most for his or her use of Twitter?
@CruiseVictims - check it out
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Why should people follow you?
cruise law, cruise law, cruise law
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Why'd you start tweeting?
wondered what veryone was doing with their blackberries on tv during Obama's State of the Union speech
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Has Twitter changed your life? If yes, how?
My mother-in-law thinks I lost my mind, my kids think I'm brilliant
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What do you wish people would do more of on Twitter?
Use Twitter as vehicle for donations to non-profits
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How will the world change in the next year?
What makes you think the world will change?
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What are some big Twitter faux pas?
Selling anything, saying anything twice
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What will the world be like 10 years from now?
A ball of confusion, just like the world is today hey hey
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