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Posted on 11/13/2009 6:10:24 AM PST by Kaslin
I have yet to understand why anyone would use twitter. I’m not saying I like it or not. I just don’t know why there would be a market for it in a world of Myspace and Facebook.
exactly , same as me
what is the point that one feels the need to tell others they do not know about what they are doing.
Are we that bored with our loves that we have to find out about them going on vacation and what they did there.
Then the idiots tell the world that they go on vacation so the robbers can come and rob their house and yes it has been done.
Might as well stick a sign outside saying when you go away.
And what is this crap of will you be my friend, why don’;t you have any, why are you asking me? Don’t you have any friends that you feel the need to ask strangers.
it is no different to going up to a stranger in a street and asking them to be your friend and then telling them your lifestory.
What makes these people think people want to know what kind of music they like or how they like their steak cooked or what time they get up.
the word conceited come to mind
Twitter- 21st century version of the hoola hoop.
Twitter?
The only reason that I signed up for a Twitter account was to be able to get news about the Iranian election and aftermath. Found it very useful for that.
Then came along the Honduran elections, and again it seemed to do a better job of connecting with citizens, not government propaganda. (propaganda is there too)
It is as stated impossible to convey much of substance in 150 characters, but it does a good job of links and headlines.
Oddly I am locked out of my Twitter account as of yesterday, for too many failed logins. (I installed and tried a Python twitter client yesterday, and it probably is the cause)
So my point:
(1) Twitter’s key usefulness is portability. A lot of the content is from cell phones.
(2) There are a lot of Conservatives who inhabit twitter and I think this is positive, and most are not that young.
(3) Is is a fad like CB radio, Possibly. (CB radio was that vehicle which morphed the speech of a banker to that of a truck driver)
I do not own a cell phone but still find Twitter useful. And I will be 62 next month, not kid.
Ok, I am a believer
:-)
ESPN’s Scott Van Pelt said it best... “Twitter is the great illuminator of stupidity.”
Twitter is an incomprehensible mess.
So is Meghan McCain.
same here
I have enough friends in the real world so I don’t need strangers asking me to be their friend and I couldn’t care less if someone I do not know is having a coffee by the window with their cat on their knee
>I have to admit that I don’t get Twitter at all. What’s the point? Why would anyone want to know when someone else is watching TV, petting their cat or clipping their toenails? Are we that bored with our lives?<
Twitter can be used for much, much more. During the Iran protests a few months back, people were glued to Twitter, as it provided those in Iran with a vehicle to get up-to-the minute information out to the rest of the world.
Do people use it for silly things? Sure, but it is a powerful tool used in a serious fashion.
I have recently become a huge Twitter fan. The ~20 people I follow are some of the best and brightest Software Engineers on Earth. They send me a lot of useful links to useful information. I consider them my million dollar consulting team.
What about email?
While I don’t care much about Megan McCain’s cleavage, Demi and Aston’s new Prius, or what some random tweeter is having for dinner, I do think Twitter is great for first hand accounts of events like the Iranian elections or the Tea Parties.
115, so you're good.
Seriously, though, I've never been on MySpace. I tried Twitter for a week and found it simply to dull (though, in fairness, if I were ever marketing something, I would be darn sure to hop on Twitter). I signed up for Facebook after my wife started getting into it.
Facebook is, I think, a little classier than the other two and I think a lot of the reason for that is the way it is tied to your real identity. It is a lot easier to be a general jerk when you are anonymous (okay, they're not really anonymous, but few people have the resources or sufficient motivation to pull the mask off).
I think what this shows is the SHE is useless.
Ah, the classic “fat girl internet pic.”
Yes, squeezing your belly up between your arms is very, uh, “sexual.” No really, her huge, flabby arms and protruding belly get me so hot. So hot.
I’m on the same page here. Most of this stuff is simply fodder for malleable morons.
That's a good point. Following the tweets during the Iranian uprising was incredible, but still an almost incomprehensible mess. Twitter has uses, I suppose.
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