Thread: Anyone Useful on Twitter?

No. Never.

Hah.

I love how cool it is to hate Twitter right now. Just like it was cool to hate Livejournal, Messenger, Myspace and Facebook.

You'll fall eventually.

Everyone's been talking about Twitter lately, but my Facebook addiction leaves little time for another status update thingy. Maybe I'll check it out. ???

It's a lot more than just status updates.

Imagine a list of status updates, but instead of just seeing stuff from your friends, you can see news headlines from any site you want, find out what politicians/comedians/celebrities are up to (presently, they're tweeting directly themselves, there is no middle man), get local traffic news, whatever, all on one page. I'm working on an s-b 'recent posts' feed for it, so instead of coming here and being disappointed by the lack of posts, I won't need to, I'll just be told whenever someone does post, in amongst all the other stuff that helps me pass my day.

Like, presently, I use a little firefox addon called twitterfox that pops up a box bottom right whenever anyone/thing I'm following posts a new 'tweet'. So I regularly updates from the BBC, the Guardian, Trent Reznor, Stephen Fry, A Lost website, Graham Linehan, Alastair Campbell, Obama, Charlie Brooker, a few of my friends, the local council, John Cleese, Kevin Smith, and Stupid-boy, to name just a few. And the stuff they've all got to say is sometimes fascinating, sometimes hilarious, sometimes boring, and sometimes makes you think.

It's a really well thought out service, but it does take a little while to 'get' it.

A lot of people use it. Everyone from Rick Sanchez on CNN to good ol' John McCain.

I didn't get into myspace, facebook, linkedin and all the others. I can't imagine I'll get into twitter.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (rubytuesday @ Mar 12 2009, 05:57 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

good ol&#39; John McCain.[/b]

I tried following him and John Bolton for a bit, but their tweets were as dry as the sun itself, so I&#39;ve stopped trying. Obama actually hasn&#39;t tweeted since the day before the inauguration, so he&#39;s next to go.

Example, the guy who plays Kryten in Red Dwarf is currently at Dartington Hall in Devon, organising a conference. Richard Herring is currently stealing shampoo from a Travelodge, and Jimmy Carr just beat Jonathon Ross at tennis.

It makes celebrities seem much more human.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Trionix @ Mar 12 2009, 06:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div>

Hah.

I love how cool it is to hate Twitter right now. Just like it was cool to hate Livejournal, Messenger, Myspace and Facebook.

You&#39;ll fall eventually.[/b]

I hate Twitter because it&#39;s stupid and vapid. It has nothing I want and I can&#39;t see myself using it for reading or writing. I&#39;ve hated it since before it was popular, like 2 years ago or something, because I hate it on a conceptual level.

I also hate it because while it&#39;s so stupid and vapid, it&#39;s suddenly a considered must-have for the whole planet. I resent the idea that one-liners and status updates are somehow meaningful communication and consider this a symptom of society&#39;s depressingly ever-reducing attention span. People who think this is some kind of revloution make me fear (more) for the future of civilisation.

I have no interest in participating in it and hope it&#39;s just a fad.

And for the record I still hate MySpace, because it&#39;s stupid too.

Like you?

Right, it&#39;s just something you go on about a lot.

If you two have quite finished your mating ritual...

I take it no-one here&#39;s onto Twitter yet then.

I&#39;ll bump this in six months and see where we&#39;re at.

I just BARELY started using Facebook. I like myspace and facebook and all that, but I don&#39;t like doing anything with it. I refuse to update my "status" or ask people if they&#39;ll be my "friend." Actually, I&#39;ve done that a few times. But it&#39;s pretty rare.

I&#39;m starting to think I&#39;m too self-conscious to do all that stuff. Like people will judge what I type. I&#39;m weird.... Haha.