Twitter? Seriously?....

prism

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Anyone else think Twitter is just ridiculous? I'm not delusional enough to think that people would actually care about what I'm doing throughout my everyday life, as I really don't care about other people's mundane activities. Is it just me or is Twitter.com just as ridiculous as blogging?

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Ballatician

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Yea I don't really understand the Twitter appeal either...not all blogs are bad though. The only Twitter I've ever read was the one from the Georgian person during the battle with Russia.
 

rocadelpunk

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I like twitter. My train of thought is usually brief. I don't care to write a long drawn out blog, especially when I can just cut to the chase. So many blogs are wordy beyond belief.
 

McCarthy

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Twitter is for those in tech media to let others in tech media know what they're blogging/podcasting about.
 

Swag1138

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There are a few twitters that are just hillarious. The author of defectiveyeti.com, for instance, uses his twitter for to spread the funny
 
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I don't know a single person in New Zealand who uses it so it's useless to me. I signed up after it was hyped to death by many of the tech blogs and podcasts I read/listen to but have never used it.
 

clamum

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Depends, it can be useful for quick updates or links you find interesting or things like that.
 

Crono

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Originally posted by: Anubis
WTF is Twitter?

ive asked this before and i never get an answer

It's a by-the-moment log of what you are doing, in short pieces of text.

"Eating a hamburger at McD's on 56th. Tastes awful. Yeah..."

 

IEC

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If used properly, I can see how it might be useful.

Too bad people use it like a blog...
 

mflacy

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But all my stalkers are interested in the mundane details of my life.

I use Twitter a few times each day. Using Twinkle on the iPhone, I'm twittering with people in a 25 mile vicinity. It's pretty cool for talking about local events and news. I met up with a local Twitter girl for sushi last week. I also use Twitter to share pictures and broadcast the RSS feed of my blog. TweetDeck is good for searching topics you want to reply to and adding new followers.

I do have a hard time getting my friends using Twitter though. They just don't get it.

There is also an inordinate amount of businesses that use Twitter. Their twits are typically spammy and pointless. They can be blocked though.
 

StageLeft

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Yet another "social networking" site for people with poor self-esteems to post endless minutiae so that people they think care but don't can be inundated with details of such important points as "I'm eating a chicken sandwich for lunch" or "going to bed in a few minutes".
 

Crono

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Yet another "social networking" site for people with poor self-esteems to post endless minutiae so that people they think care but don't can be inundated with details of such important points as "I'm eating a chicken sandwich for lunch" or "going to bed in a few minutes".

Sounds like a certain forum I know.
 

mugs

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I've never understood the appeal. Leo Laporte has a hard-on for Twitter, but it just seems silly to me.
 

ultimatebob

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I don't get it either. If I wanted to tell folks every detail of my life, I'd just update my Facebook status. At least I actually know people who read that thing.
 

torpid

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Last year during the film festival here, some douche rented out the space atop the movie theater next door to my apartment. He hooked up a giant projector that projected his computer screen onto a the building across the street and played obnoxiously loud music from his iTunes. When I say obnoxiously loud, I mean almost concert level loud after 11PM. He kept calling it the "fringe festival" as if that legitimized his stupidity. The entire time he was either repeating the same loop of an American solder in Iraq or twittering. Not just twittering normally either, he was just typing random letters such as: ojinsoinqqww;

That was my first experience seeing Twitter and all I needed to know. After I called the cops on this moron, I came to realize that if this tool was using Twitter, it must really suck.
 

CrazyLazy

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Twitter is stupid because most people don't have anything interesting to write unless you know them personally, just like blogs. I admit I follow the torrentfreak twitter and some other ones that are interesting but the vast majority of them are no worth reading.
 
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