You can let others know that you are posting something, so they can read it too. People post funny, serious, and provocative things.
My question is, uh, how is this more than FR?
Twitter is not quite a site like FreeRepublic. It’s more of a site where you can send out short messages, such as “protesting today at 1pm at the lib dem senator’s office on main street”.
There were some Conservative students who used Twitter to get their message out about their protest and it gained a life of its own. Below is a little blurb about it on “Why Conservatives Should Use Twitter”. There is a link to it in an above post.
“For example, when the Republicans staged a protest last summer and refused to leave for summer recess, Eric Odom and a few other Twitter users were sending updates using the hashtag “#dontgo.” That hashtag allowed people to see the news relating to the dontgo movement as it was happening and morphed from a Twitter stream to an organization Michelle Malkin called “the new gathering place for conservative activism.””
Maybe I am just being crazy, but why would I want to go to a site mostly populated and visited by folks who I would not want to send an email to????
So how is Twitter more than what anyone might get on FR? What makes it worth having to use two different sites to hear or see the same thing?
Oh, and was anyone on Twitter the ones who caught a reporters lie about a president and then had to resign? Was anyone on Twitter among the First poster on the Internet to see and post about Columbia's break up on re-entry?
Probably just me but I see no need to go hang with a large body of folks most of who I would not care to chat with anywhere, any time.
JMHO