super long answer NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOsoaringbiscuit said:
but ya it really seems dumb
Am I the only one that thinks twiter is... well... stupid?
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but ya it really seems dumb
hmm
i didnt tihnk i'd like it, but i use it to keep in contact with people on here because i dont have facebook
besides, i dont care what people are doing, i just like having a place to post all my random crap that could get me suspended on here for being amazingly off topic XD
i didnt tihnk i'd like it, but i use it to keep in contact with people on here because i dont have facebook
besides, i dont care what people are doing, i just like having a place to post all my random crap that could get me suspended on here for being amazingly off topic XD
good for celebrities because then their fans can ogle at them whenever they want, other than that its overrated.Code Monkey said:
Also companies who are announcing it as they can post when they leek lomthing.
im not sure why people like it so much. i guess maybe its because they can pretend they're celebrities and continue to pretend people care about what they're doing. seems a bit pointless but some like to live in a world frought with delusion.
If you didn't find my examples very interesting, that reflects on my writing, not the platform. Maybe it was a mistake to include examples, because I didn't intend to say 'this is the right way to use Twitter'. It's just a writing space; there's no such thing as the 'proper' way to use it. People use it in all different kinds of ways. For example, sometime Escapist contributor Colin Roswell is writing a serial novel called Orpheus Corpse [http://twitter.com/orpheuscorpse]. (Russ Pitts finished one a couple of months ago too - scroll down a bit. [http://twitter.com/russpitts]) But you don't have to use it for creative writing any more than you have to use it for telling everyone what you're doing right now. A lot of people use it mostly for link-sharing - which incidentally was what the first blogs were used for.Khell_Sennet said:
There are responses, rebuttals, affirmations and conversing. In fact, for a lot of people the majority of what they do on Twitter is respond to and chat with other people. Whether someone has specifically asked 'Does anyone know about this?' or just said something you find interesting, you can send them a message (public or private). If you're browsing someone's Twitter updates and see a post that begins with '@name', that's recognised by the software as a public message or reply to the named person, and it appears in their Twitter feed whether or not they're following the person. (By default, your own feed doesn't include these messages from friends to other people that you're not following, to cut down on clutter.)
I'm not saying it's great, I'm saying it's neutral. Whether it's good or bad depends entirely on the people whose writing you follow. Seeing all these people complaining about how awful it is makes me want to facepalm, because they don't understand that. Or maybe none of these people will ever like short-form writing, but that doesn't make it bad, it just means it's not for them.
Imagine you were on a hairdressing forum for some reason, and you saw a thread called 'Does anyone else think videogames are stupid?' And all the responses were variations on 'Yeah my little sister has a Wiibox or whatever and it's dumb, it's just a picture of a person moving around, what's the point of that?' or 'I tried playing games once and I played the Open Season game and the Charlie & the Chocolate Factory game and they were stupid! Games are stupid!' or 'I turned on my friend's PS3 and it just had a menu on the screen and I watched it for ten minutes and nothing else happened!' or even 'I've never played a game but I think they're dumb'. That's what this thread looks like to me.
I don't hate Twitter. I just don't give a damn about it, nor do I think it was a brilliant idea.
I don't really think it's stupid, I just don't think it has much of a purpose. At 180 characters, the amount of information that can be transmitted is quite limited, and if used for it's intended purpose will simply tell me what someone was doing at a particular time.
Where this whole thing breaks down for me is that I have such a small pool of people that I legitimately care about what they're doing at one time that such a tool is unneccessary. It would take but a few minutes to figure out this information through other means, and this information is almost certainly more detailed and accurate. In another common usage, Twitter is used as sort of a pseudo IM program, only you can have an audience. Wile I won't say that there are no IM conversations that would care to listen in on, I'm quite certain that generally don't need or want to be a part of the process.
It doesn't strike me as stupid, it just doesn't serve any purpose in my life at this moment.
Where this whole thing breaks down for me is that I have such a small pool of people that I legitimately care about what they're doing at one time that such a tool is unneccessary. It would take but a few minutes to figure out this information through other means, and this information is almost certainly more detailed and accurate. In another common usage, Twitter is used as sort of a pseudo IM program, only you can have an audience. Wile I won't say that there are no IM conversations that would care to listen in on, I'm quite certain that generally don't need or want to be a part of the process.
It doesn't strike me as stupid, it just doesn't serve any purpose in my life at this moment.
just use it to follow celebs, comedians, and groups. a good way to friends and arrange times to hang out. don't hate just try to find ways to use it effectively.
yeah seems pretty stupid to me. Any uses it could possibly have other than public announcements for famous people (like "I'm doing a show at this club tonight come check it out" ect.) can be accomplished much more efficiently with email anyways
nope your not alone.
i have a twitter myself but tbh ive made like 5 posts. only the sad can be sat there all day and night to tell people what they are doing every single day.
also check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmhihKIINM&feature=channel_page
i have a twitter myself but tbh ive made like 5 posts. only the sad can be sat there all day and night to tell people what they are doing every single day.
also check this out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNmhihKIINM&feature=channel_page