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!
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)
