I was looking at twitter and just about all the accounts I found were either spambots or simular to an rss feed. Are there real people on twitter or is it just a big joke that people don't seem to get yet? All those social media people that say you can make money with Twitter are stupid scam artists. Web 2.0 looks more and more like a downgrade to me every day.
Poll: What do you think of twitter?
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I think it offers a decent service, and I can update my website with RSS feeds without the need to go into my site editor, enter username and password and wait for it to upload...
Also, I've never found a spambot on it, but I didn't spend much time there either.
Also, I've never found a spambot on it, but I didn't spend much time there either.
Don't know. Don't care. Twitter is by far the dumbest piece of technology ever devise. It's worse than something designed specificaly to shock it's user in the groin.
My Twitter account is the anus of my thoughts, really. One that gets utterly chock full of parasites if I don't regularly make use of the "block" feature.
Seriously, put your "real name" as something stupid. I've had a "hot babe" send me a request for "hot loving", but I think she sent it to the wrong account as she was asking for a guy called "The."
Seriously, put your "real name" as something stupid. I've had a "hot babe" send me a request for "hot loving", but I think she sent it to the wrong account as she was asking for a guy called "The."
I don't like the idea of it. I only signed up for it to give Squeenix a second vote against Zynga.
It's a corporate spam trap. That's it. Nothing else. Anyone who tells you its useful is lying.
That and it receives more references from people trying to stay "hip" than people who actually use it.
That and it receives more references from people trying to stay "hip" than people who actually use it.
And Me!Pararaptor said:
I like twitter as a platform to communicate with others regardless of O.S or IM program. However I do think there are a ton of spambots on there mucking up the place like crazy. At least now you can report profiles for spam.
Mod Edit: The profile report tool doesn't work on Twitter. I've reported you about a dozen times and they have done nothing to stop your pictures of you parading around in your underwear with that Halo helmet on. No one wants to see that. We want to see Zorro hats, not Master Chief helmets. Permabanned. -Kuliani
Twitter kicks ass. I'm sure it's just as terrible as most young people seem to think if all you're doing is following your high school friends and reading about what they had for lunch, but it's an amazing service if you use it right.
My favorite use is simply posting jokes. FATJEW is my favorite twitter user ? his twitter fed is one of the funniest things I've ever read on the Internet.
Beyond that, it's great for following news. This can be official news ? I get an update every time the Black Mesa mod team makes a major update, for instance ? or it can be live-tweets of events, such as when a couple of my friends live-tweeted a disqualification appeal hearing at my university's student society.
There's all kinds of other bizarre features as well. Many twitter apps allow you to tag your longitude and latitude on your tweets, so other users can see where you were when you posted. This is useful for all kinds of things. While the Olympics were still on, for instance, a friend of mine wanted to know if the lineup for Germany House was too long to be worth it; he pulled out twitter and scanned for tweets coming from that area in the last few minutes, and saw a bunch of complaints about the four-hour lineup. Thanks to Twitter, he didn't have to waste his time going down there to check for himself, and was able to go to a different venue that wasn't so busy.
My favorite use is simply posting jokes. FATJEW is my favorite twitter user ? his twitter fed is one of the funniest things I've ever read on the Internet.
Beyond that, it's great for following news. This can be official news ? I get an update every time the Black Mesa mod team makes a major update, for instance ? or it can be live-tweets of events, such as when a couple of my friends live-tweeted a disqualification appeal hearing at my university's student society.
There's all kinds of other bizarre features as well. Many twitter apps allow you to tag your longitude and latitude on your tweets, so other users can see where you were when you posted. This is useful for all kinds of things. While the Olympics were still on, for instance, a friend of mine wanted to know if the lineup for Germany House was too long to be worth it; he pulled out twitter and scanned for tweets coming from that area in the last few minutes, and saw a bunch of complaints about the four-hour lineup. Thanks to Twitter, he didn't have to waste his time going down there to check for himself, and was able to go to a different venue that wasn't so busy.
I am on twitter as well. I use it a little but I have not run into a spambot, and I like grabbing feeds from my favorite places on there
I like it, I thought it was gonna be silly, but it turned out to be fun and is a great way for me to keep in touch with my friends. Yes, there are a bunch of Spambots, but thats why you can make your account private so they can't follow you.
