Do you twitter?

[GotGusto]

I don't 'get it'. Glorified text messaging?

What do I care what an anonymous person is doing every 10 seconds in their mundane lives? Do I really need to know or should I care that they just went grocery shopping? Do I care what celebs are doing in their couped up lives either?

I've never seen something so utterly useless, so overhyped, gain such viral popularity overnight. I hear it promoted on ever new and radio station I turn to.

What's the hoopla all about?

 

[Ashton.]

I don't 'get it'. Glorified text messaging?

What do I care what an anonymous person is doing every 10 seconds in their mundane lives? Do I really need to know or should I care that they just went grocery shopping? Do I care what celebs are doing in their couped up lives either?

I've never seen something so utterly useless, so overhyped, gain such viral popularity overnight. I hear it promoted on ever new and radio station I turn to.

What's the hoopla all about?

I do. I have an Ashton twitter and a personal one. It is quite addictive actually. I try to only update mine once or twice a day but it's fun. It's mini-blogging so it's great for those of us with short attention spans .
Celebrities use it as a marketing tool. They advertise tour dates, special contests etc. Lilly Allen, for example, holds scavenger hunts in whatever city she is in for tickets to her concerts.

 

[Kang]

I can understand the use of Twitter for people who need to self promote. For anyone else - you aren't nearly important as you think you are.

Maybe Terb could start a "Twatter" service for Advertisers and members...

 

[Cleftwynd]

Do you twitter?

Isn't that rumored to cause blindness?

 

[ig-88]

too bitter to twitter

 

[The LoLRus]

I only do Titter

 

[Bill the Pirate]

there is a person on twitter named "Ashton Fagg"
hopefully that is not you!

 

[Ashton.]

there is a person on twitter named "Ashton Fagg"
hopefully that is not you!

Haha no defiantely not.

 

[elmo]

I don't 'get it'. Glorified text messaging?

What do I care what an anonymous person is doing every 10 seconds in their mundane lives? Do I really need to know or should I care that they just went grocery shopping? Do I care what celebs are doing in their couped up lives either?

I've never seen something so utterly useless, so overhyped, gain such viral popularity overnight. I hear it promoted on ever new and radio station I turn to.

What's the hoopla all about?

Kind of sounds like the TERB lounge...

 

[spankingman]

No I TWATTER!!

 

[Gyaos]

I can't wait for the word "twitter" to be an insult when everyone is using it, then the company collapses and their founders arrested for the worst behavior known to man. That's usually the future of a company that sucks in so much free advertising at once when their staff should be filling pot holes. Google was lucky, even their destructive fate is all but assured to come. No. I hate the word Twitter, I'll never use it. I hate every media organization that thinks it's "cool", even non-profits that Twitter grabs collapsing ad revenue by the free publicity. Fuck them.

Do I TERB? YES. Twitter is stealing from TERB's ideas and I think Twitter should be sued from all sides. LOL.

Gyaos Baltar.

 

[GotGusto]

I totally get that it's mini-real-time-blogging and a terrific marketing tool for some. But for the vast majority of people, I don't see why this of any use, and why it's blown up as it has. You get "1000 followers". Are those 1000 people really checking in on what you're doing? I doubt it. It's like a gimmick/gadget/fad for most people who get caught up in the hype. Idiocracy in motion.

It's not like Terb where you can have discussions and make long posts, is it? I thought you're limited to small bits of text?

I suppose I might track somebody of importance to get inside info if they're posting good stuff all the time. But there is no reason why I'd have 1000s of "Friends" and "followers" or be a follower of a significant number of users. A quick scan shows that most people post dubious unimportant mundane crap that nobody cares about. Great, you went to the park and you want the world to know. Please put a gun to your temple. You know what to do next you narcissistic douchebag.

 

[GotGusto]

It's just an example of douchebaggery reaching new heights where every worthless miscreant believes that having a place to post their useless drivel makes them a somebody.

That being said, I'm going to sign up for an account at some point.

 

[papasmerf]

as of now I see TWITTER as being for twits

ARE YOU A TWIT?????

 

[Gyaos]

I don't see why this of any use, and why it's blown up as it has.

Because jerks like Nora O'Donnell of MSNBC (some people think she's hot), Pimm Foxx of Bloomberg and even C-Span's Washington Journal say "you can go to Twitter and make a comment", sounding like out-of-touch idiots. They don't have computer science degrees and yet they are pumping computer use? This "free publicity" for this prick company is what I'm against. I'm not against free publicity at all, I'm against the hypnotism of media organization anchors that all of a sudden promote a *for profit* company that takes in personal information to be used against anyone, if need be.

Does Bloomberg say "Go to CNBC's message board, leave a comment and we will read it on the air"? No. Does C-Span say "Go to NPR's board and we will read your comments there?" No. Does MSNBC say "Go to CNN.com and we will read your comments there?" No. So they are F'n up their own business, promoting Twitter, a competitor. Yep, only F'n twits are ruining this economy and crying it's bad at the same time.

I went with this English speaking chick at a Macau sauna and the wash girls were Vietnamese and couldn't even speak English. She kept calling them "fucking stupid" in front of them while they kept smiling. That's what Nora O'Donnell, C-Span and Pimm Foxx are doing, talking Vietnamese while I call them "fucking stupid".

Gyaos Baltar.

 

[ckupets04]

I am only 30 but I must be getting old because I had never even heard of twitter until the whole Charlie V twittering news came out several weeks ago.

 

[The LoLRus]

Nora O'Donnell of MSNBC (some people think she's hot)

She's the White Ho

 

[to-guy69]

Only benefit I see is that it is a real time search engine.

 

[ig-88]

She's the White Ho

I'd hit it.

 

[Stoo]

Fuck no. I am bombarded by emails and texts from the moment my BB goes live at 5:30 in the morning, until I shut it off when I go to bed. Such is my lot for having a business with clients that have offices in lots of time zones...

The last thing I want is more useless "information". I mean do I really car that a friend is walking her dog, or a buddy is heading to the carwash...?

Twitter is the mose recent manifestation of the "Look at me... I'm special..." crowd. Ummm, no, you're not. Now fuck off and quit using up bandwidth that could be used for faster porn downloads.

Damn, I feel better now.