Am I the only one that thinks twiter is... well... stupid?

[xXGeckoXx]

I think that twitter is not exactly stupid but I don't use it.

Well I use it for one thing, Stalking others, Despite not having an account I can stalk twits really easily. I don't want others to do the same to me so I never made an account.

 

[insectoid]

I use it, but more for the following aspect - it's easy to get updates from news sites and the like.

 

[ZippyDSMlee]

Twitter, my space , face book are dumb, blogs are a sub of home pages(during the late 90s they were all the rage) so they are not a total loss.

 

[Zeramo]

Personally I think Twitter gives a platform to the exhibitionists of our society who want you to know and care for every minute detail of their godawful, boring existence and so they bombard us with trivia.
So I think Twitter could only have been devised by Satan and if there is a hell and whoever goes there is forced to read every detail that is written on twitter until this poor person goes insane and than he or she has to read some more!

 

[lampmanofdoom]

I hate twitter with a pasion!

 

[Harlemura]

It depends what way you look at it.
I think it is pretty stupid if someone's going to post their actions every 5 seconds, but some people only do it about once a day. Sometimes people can even be pretty funny on it.
Also,

It can give your friends updates on what's going on with you right now, and it lets you send messages and stuff.

This.

 

[sirdanrhodes]

You obviously haven't lurked around the News Room... Turns out allot of people hate shitter.

 

[DoctorWhat]

I use it, but I keep it private, and I only update with very important stuff (to me). It's a sort of online diary to me I suppose, so I can look at it in a few years and go "God! was I that stupid?"

I suppose I'm more inclined to type about something when I'm on the internet rather than open up a text editor or a copybook.

 

[KenzS]

What happened to texting, is it obsolete now?

 

[Durahan2]

I find it to fall in the same spot as myspace, facebook, texting, etc.

That spot is for useless shit that got important and popular for no reason. Mostly anything "important" you could do on tawtter, can be done in a simple e-mail.

 

[ben---neb]

What's twitter?

 

[Same River New Water]

People don't understand what Twitter is for. It's not an entertainment. It's a platform for people to communicate. So yes, if you get a Twitter account and just stare at it, it's going to be boring. If you only update with "eating a sandwich"/"going to the movies"/"picking my nose", it's going to be boring. If you only follow other people who update with the minutiae of their life, it's going to be boring. That doesn't mean the platform is useless, it means you're not using it well.

Saying you hate Twitter because you haven't found anyone good to follow is like saying you hate your games console because you haven't bought any good games for it. The good stuff is out there, so don't blame the console/social media platform.

I barely know what twitter is and I loathe it with all my being.

Because I know you're a fan, imagine that sentence with "Twitter" replaced by "Halo".

EDIT: To illustrate my point, here are a few examples of Twitter updates that suit the form, instead of just being "clipped my toenails today" or whatever. These are from my account [https://twitter.com/heresathought], and I'm no famous writer, so obviously they're not the best examples you can find. But I hope they demonstrate how Twitter can be useful to send out quick thoughts to anyone who's interested.

I refuse to read a magazine that doesn't have funny captions on its pictures. Better luck next time, The Economist.

Thinking about changing to a less stressful job, like clearing land mines.

I declare the 23rd of March to be Slam The Brakes On A Tailgater Day.

Blix: verb; to search fruitlessly. "I blixed for my keys everywhere." Derived from the Swedish "Hans Blix".

 

[PhantomCritic]

You're not alone, alot of people(including myself)or find twitter idiotic/pointless like bebo or myspace(im sorry but it had to be said) and i've yet to find what keeps people on twitter in the first place. Personally this is what i think of twitter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WHptG35EWU

 

[Zombie_Fish]

I'm not a big fan of Twitter either. It is just another social networking site like Bebo or Myspace or Facebook as if we didn't have enough of those anyway.

 

[AlphaOmega]

Its the same crap as cu2, myspace, partyflok etc etc.

Plain old useless junk for the popular people to be entertained with "oooh shinies"

 

[PhantomCritic]

yeah I'm not about it. It's the pinnacle of self-important garbage. I mean, not to say that most internet activity isn't... but this is the pinnacle!!

I think it i really stupid. Also it sounds pretty boring, why should I care about every move you make? It' like inviting me to stalk you.

Its the same crap as cu2, myspace, partyflok etc etc.

Plain old useless junk for the popular people to be entertained with "oooh shinies"

I couldn't think of better descriptions myself, thank you.

 

[linchowlewy]

I used to hate it until E3 came on, it is actually really invaluable for getting news from conventions and reporters

 

[D_987]

I do have a Twitter, and I use it to subscribe to a ton of gaming sites so I can view infomation without having to scan IGN or other sites. It was particularly handy during this years E3. I, however, would never use Twitter how its suppossed to be used because, as the OP said, its pretty pathetic.