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Twitter....worthless or do I just not get it?
OK I am trying to figure Twitter out...is there more to it than I think there is, or does it just suck? Here's what I -think- it is...
A site that allows you to post short notes about...whatever...that are then viewable by anyone, and your followers on Twitter get automatic updates on those posts. Typically, the notes that are posted are about what you happen to be doing at that moment in time, but can be about whatever you want them to be.
Is that right? If so...why is this becoming such a big deal? Isn't it basically the "status feed" from Facebook?
What am I not getting?
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oh my god finally someone who feels the same way i do. !! whats the buz about it?? first of all you have to be a stalker to care that much about one any random person is doing at every minute of their lives and you have to be way to consumed by cleebs to care about their random updates. I checked it out for like a min becuase i was sure it wasnt what i thought it was, which is boring and pointless. but it is pointless and boring. celebs update stuff like, eatingdinner, spicy food, im full. which who cares and the general public says stuff like "getting ready to go clubbing" and people who are obsessed update lke every 3 min. its a max ofr 180 words describingwhat someone is doing at any particular time. it is compared to blogging but at least blogging is interesting. i blog like crazy, but twitter. i mean tya just did a show on people whos relationships are ending because of twitter which is so sad becuase if you are reading twitter that much you are obsessed to much and if you are twittering that much you are obviously thinking your life is way more important then it actually is. i have been waiting for someone to share my feeling about twitter forever!!!
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...it is a manifest of cybernetically enhanced humanoid drones of multiple minds, organized as an interconnected collective, the useless postings of which are made by a hive like mind. They inhabit a region of space in the milky way galaxy, possessing millions of hand held devices and having wasted thousands of minutes twitting. They operate solely toward the fulfilling of one purpose: to "add the biological and technological distinctiveness of more minds to their own" in pursuit of nothing.
Resistance is Futile !!!
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OK so I'm not wrong about what it is? I thought I was missing something. The few twitter pages I've checked out have been things like....
"Just ate a half a grapefruit"
"I am fixing to go shopping"
"I just ran 2 miles...yay!"
Seriously....who has enough time in their life to post such minute details, and who has time to keep up with mundane crap about their friends or whoever?
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^is that all it is really?? I've been hearing about twitter and I thought it was more a myspace type thing. That sounds beyond lame - not that yet another social networking site wasn't lame, but good lord.
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Thank you! Although, if there were a dirty version, called Twatter, I might get in on it. As it stands, I have no interest in hearing about the mundane details of other people's lives, nor sharing the details of mine. Though I wonder if you can meta-Twitter... "I'm updating my Twitter!" Philosophical conundrum, or banal repetition? Hmmm...;D
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Originally Posted by
Mr Hyde
Isn't it basically the "status feed" from Facebook?
That's always been my impression of it. I don't get it either.
I think the only difference is you can follow anybody's Twitter page thing... sort of like reality tv I suppose. I just don't see the appeal though.
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Yeah, it's just status updates. I like it to keep in touch w/my girlfriends, we use it as a sort of chat room on our Blackberrys. It keeps us entertained while we're bored at work, or wherever. But unless you have a little bit of a "community" on there, it is pointless.
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twitter is only boring when you are following boring people. its a fast way to interact with friends, family, celebs, etc. i would never follow somebody that says "wow i just ate pizza." ok, who cares? but you can post fast pictures from your phone and share them with friends...when you have a few followers, people start responding to you. a lot of people i know also post links to interesting articles, funny pics, things like that. but if nobody is following you, then there really isn't a point. it took me a WHILE to like it at all. or to even understand it
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haha i didn't even notice that Miss Jessica posted right before me. im following her on TWITTS!! haha
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...OK any SW twitting while working? Sorta like:
1. I'm dancing for "Al" Roker right now. He is a pig.
2. That last dude smelled like shit.
3. (For extras girls) Is $95, slobber, gobble, enough for a blow job? Need to know before the song, slobber, is over.
4. Our club barbie is wearing the same outfit as me, biatch!
5. Any good food recipes using cinnamon and pepper?
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^^^^ haha, i just spit out my soda i was laughing so hard
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it's so stupid.
i think it's part of the trend of everyone wanting to be an internet celebrity. stupid stupid stupid
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I would feel really full of myself, sending out mass txts.
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In this narcissistic, look-at-me society, it amakes sense to those who are that way. For specialty on-the-road business uses, it also makes sense. Otherwise, it makes NO SENSE.
Do we not want privacy anymore? Traffic cams, ATM cams, club cams, troubled neighborhood cams, store cams. Even pagers and cellphones. The age of Big Brother is fast approaching.
But if you relinquish your privacy (Twitter, MySpace, Facebook etc etc), you are also giving up your freedom.
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threlayer
In this narcissistic, look-at-me society, it amakes sense to those who are that way. For specialty on-the-road business uses, it also makes sense. Otherwise, it makes NO SENSE.
Do we not want privacy anymore? Traffic cams, ATM cams, club cams, troubled neighborhood cams, store cams. Even pagers and cellphones. The age of Big Brother is fast approaching.
But if you relinquish your privacy (Twitter, MySpace, Facebook etc etc), you are also giving up your freedom.
...yea, and imagine all the goofy pics/postings we do as kids/teenagers/20ish and and how the internet can "remember" it for a long time. Imagine all the employeer search's and what they could find if you post too much trackable info. Imagine the moral nazi's trying to use childish postings from 20 years ago to punish a teacher/politican/preacher.
We hear about some teacher who was fired for taking/posting sexy pics on the net, well, i'm waiting for the year 2040 when some 60 year old grandma teacher is being fired for posting her sexy pics in 2000. What a comical court that will be.
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What I'm also wondering is if you're constantly updating people and talking to them on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, maybe a blog, whatever else.. what the hell do you have left to say in person? lol
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patchouli
What I'm also wondering is if you're constantly updating people and talking to them on Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, maybe a blog, whatever else.. what the hell do you have left to say in person? lol
A shitload, actually. I love it, to KIT w/my girlfriends co-workers and such. We don't have our own forum, so we use mostly Twitter and Facebook. Apparently I also keep some people amused, and vice versa so I'm diggin it.
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Twitter is an effort to run-up another internet company so that they can cash in like FaceBook and others: billions. It's hardly novel or needed, but much of the stuff on the web can be characterized as such.
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^^ exactly
It is a business after all. It's also a fad.
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Maybe you can have some influence with higher-ups you find. But I think it's all superficial.
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Originally Posted by
Mr Hyde
...why is this becoming such a big deal? Isn't it basically the "status feed" from Facebook?
What am I not getting?
lol.:rotfl:
<< that's EXACTLY what I've been thinking this ENTIRE time! I FINALLY decided to try it out like a few weeks ago just to see what all the hype was about, and I was like WTF?! Am I missing something??
It sorta reminds me of when Furby's came out and Gigapets when I was in middle school or something and everyone went CRAZY. But, at least back then our excuse was the fact that we were children and toys are allowed to be pointless! But this Twitter thing is just ridiculous lol
Whatever.8)
I'm sure it'll pass soon enough...right along with Polly Pockets and My Little Pony.
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420bUnNy
I would feel really full of myself, sending out mass txts.
Agreed!
This guy was on the Tyra Banks show b/c his girlfriend said he was addicted.. He updated ALL day every day. They would be on dates and he would update about like what they just ate. RIDICULOUS!
Seems like such a waste of time..
-Not like Stripper Web though, this is important :) My support group!! lol
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If you follow the stuff you are interested about, it's not a waste of time at all. I follow the news agencies to get up to the minute news and several authors and speakers. I don't use it so much to interact but to learn from others.