@kirstiealley & PHITTER…love love lovin’ it!

Kirstie Alley has some­thing new for us. A gift from Kirstie to every­one.

Phit­ter

“Giv­ing Phit­ness a Phacelift”

No, I haven’t for­got­ten the Eng­lish lan­guage or how to use it. Kirstie has just put a twist on it! Phit­ter is a new place focused on fit­ness for peo­ple who aren’t liv­ing a healthy lifestyle, aren’t phit or just out of shape, feel fat, look fat, know they are fat, don’t want to be fat, want to stop the down­ward spi­ral, and min­gle with oth­ers like them to sup­port each other. Kirstie wants to help them all get phit and phat!…which just hap­pens to be the oppo­site of fat btw. I think that makes her phatab­u­lous? Phit­ter is a sup­port com­mu­nity where peo­ple can go to hang­out and share tips with oth­ers in the same shoes as them. It’s a great place for encour­age­ment and inspiration.

Kirstie’s new micro-blogging com­mu­nity is sim­i­lar to the way Twit­ter works. You have 140 char­ac­ters to tell every­one “What’s up?”, you can add phriends, you can send PMs (like DMs), and you can block peo­ple (Only some of the other phit­ters and I haven’t quite fig­ured out how this fea­ture works yet, but we’ll worked it out.)

The News Is Out!

PRESS RELEASE

What can Phit­ter do that Twit­ter can’t do?

Well, one thing that stands out for me is being able to fol­low a related con­ver­sa­tion on one page. All you have to do is click on in con­text and it opens up a stream’s con­ver­sa­tion for you. Makes it sooo much eas­ier to fol­low along. (Yes, Kirstie told me to go eat dirt. LOL)

Another thing Phit­ter has that Twit­ter doesn’t, almost all, if not all of the phriends who fol­low you are in your list to send mes­sages to. I like that…a lot. Makes more sense and is more user friendly. You don’t have to go to a phriend’s pro­file to send them a PM, but you can if you want. I like hav­ing both options.

Another phab­u­lous feature.…easy to use GROUPS! Easy to add. Easy to post from. Easy to join.

The last phab­u­lous fea­ture I’ll men­tion here, you can add tags to your pro­file. I don’t remem­ber being able to do this in my Twit­ter profile…and I like hav­ing this as an option.

What fea­tures does Phit­ter not offer yet?

… but I’m bet­ting it will (@wuuutman is awe­some and has worked hard to make sure Phit­ters (that would be the users) have a phe­nom­e­nal com­mu­nity that’s user friendly so that means easy to use.

• More flex­i­bil­ity with your background.
• Tick­ers! It would be great to have tick­ers to choose from and be able to add one of our favorite tickers.
• A per­sonal Phit­ter Blog or one attached to a Group.

Other things I like about Phitter.

• The pub­lic stream ver­sus my per­sonal stream. Love it!
• Abil­ity to view my replies so eas­ily. Love it!
• Kirstie inter­acts with us Phit­ters. Love it!
• Sup­port watches the stream and inter­acts with us Phit­ters. Love it!
• Sup­port replies to messages…very help­ful that wuu­ut­man. Love it!

When the wheels in Kirstie’s head started spin­ning, it’s easy to tell she insisted her weight loss and fit­ness com­mu­nity would have to be so user friendly peo­ple would come to in droves and never want to leave it. It had to be some­thing peo­ple would love and want to turn to to get the sup­port they need to be suc­cess­ful. Kirstie knows half the bat­tle of win­ning the weight loss game is pos­i­tive rein­force­ment and hav­ing some­one to kick you in the butt when you need it! Phit­ter does just that and more. Well done Kirstie! …and thank you!

I just did this Google search:
phit­ter –site:http://www.phitter.com

Results: 1 — 100 of about 11,600 for phit­ter –site:http://www.phitter.com. (0.61 sec­onds)

…and how young is this site? Days old peo­ple! Days old! I’d say Kirstie is on to some­thing here.

What are Phit­ters say­ing about Phitter?

Quee­nieb @just4me LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT! IT’S MY NEW ADDICTION!


hope­fu­loser @just4me I LOVE PHITTER! I get encour­age­ment to NOT eat when I am really not even hun­gry!!! y’all are great!



mag­gi­etru­elove @just4me I love it! And I think it will be help­ful and moti­vat­ing for all of us.



seat­tle­gal @just4me i like it it’s nice to chat with oth­ers who may be going thru the same thing as me



use2bphit @just4me I like it. I love the idea of hav­ing a recipe exchange and support.

Have you checked Phit­ter out yet? What do you think? Are you already a Phit­ter? What do you like about it? What would you like to see added or changed? Leave a comment…get the con­ver­sa­tion going about it!

Photo Props:
Alan Light (Flickr)
wuu­ut­man (Phitter)