So this Twitter thing?
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Dillinger4
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Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
I disagree. The attraction of some things can't necessarily be understood immediately - it takes time to get into, or someone else (a maven, if you like your Gladwell) to explain the benefits.
Dillinger4
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That's rubbish because you didn't tweet it.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
It didn't even register in my brain because it wasn't on Twitter.
Dillinger4
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They should just go and try it though. It is not really very complicated to get your head around.
That is what I did.
Dillinger4
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It was like reading last year.
I did - I registered yesterday:
It just looks like a cut-down micro-version of a blog.
Sorry, looking at the website for five minutes doesn't answer my questions.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
I don't think Twitter is for these losers to be honest.
I registered yesterday, have no "followers" and have no real desire to have any.
So if I had "tweeted" it, my readership would have been zero.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
You're welcome.
Potential 'useful' uses of Twitter include:
- Connecting with other people in your geographical area
- Connecting with other people in your industry/career
- Keeping up to date with things that interest you by "following" publications, news feeds, or well-known people in your chosen area
- Participating in casual conversation with friends and/or family
- Arranging and updating social arrangements (including last-minute changes, as Twitter can be accessed on your mobile as well)
...And many more.
camouflage
gaslit at scale.
Your thoughst are composed of sextets of funny noises?
It's abit facebook, and it can send you text messages too, from what I have gathered in my investigations thus far.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
If a person tweets without any followers, does the tweet actually tweet?
fractionMan
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I am following dillinger's exciting life, which is how I knew about this thread.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
You can get standalone programs for it. I think the most popular one is called 'tweetdeck'. But it is a website first of all.
I think the biggest appeal is that you can access it easily from your phone - a lot of people post from their iphones.
I think most of the questions have been answered somewhere or other on this thread!
Forgive me for not giving a serious answer. I am not really a techie.
I went on there because it was just another way to keep in touch with a few friends. I don't go on facebook, and some of them are not really on urban much anymore.
I am also subscribed to some news thingies, so I get news updates on there.
Some people are interested in following the famous twitter users, like Stephen Fry, for example.
I post on forums, read blogs, use facebook and sometimes IRC chat channels...
...what I am failing to see atm is why I should also bother with twitter: what does it give me that these other channels don't already provide?
I suppose the answer is the access to the wanky wannabe-trendy celebs and other wankerish types who seem to be creaming themselves over this but are too-cool-for-facebook-or-forums: presumably because twitter is set up in a very "look-at-me" way? Maximum attention for minimum content = celeb-heaven?
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Yeah but what did you have for tea?
They would be if they got any less basic than my initial post on this thread - hence my disputing that I am "overthinking".
We've done that one already.
Dillinger4
Es gibt Zeit
Yeh, but you didn't tweet it, so it was irrelevant.
Dillinger4
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Maybe you are disputing this because you are overthinking.
We've done that one as well.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
Lighten up mate. You're taking this all very seriously.
I can't answer the techie questions. I just use it to stalk and chat to Dillinger and some others. And my housemate.
And celebrities.
Maybe it's not your cup of tea.
fen_boy
Exits gracefully.
You're welcome.
Potential 'useful' uses of Twitter include:
- Connecting with other people in your geographical area
- Connecting with other people in your industry/career
- Keeping up to date with things that interest you by "following" publications, news feeds, or well-known people in your chosen area
- Participating in casual conversation with friends and/or family
- Arranging and updating social arrangements (including last-minute changes, as Twitter can be accessed on your mobile as well)
...And many more.
Exactly, if it hadn't been for Twitter I never would have discovered that Buddy Bradley was seeing my wife on the side (sort of)
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
For me the answer is that it is an ambient kind of connectedness, that you don't get with forums, blogs, or Facebook. With those it takes an effort on your part to go and read and/or update them; with Twitter, the updates come to you, and it is up to you whether to ignore them or respond in some way.
The difference between Twitter and IRC is that, in a chatroom there is an expectancy that you are paying attention and will respond.
Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
LOLExactly, if it hadn't been for Twitter I never would have discovered that Buddy Bradley was seeing my wife on the side (sort of)
ATOMIC SUPLEX
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I saw prescot mention it on the news this morning. I don't have a clue, something about blackberrys?
fractionMan
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That bastard dillinger4 just blocked me
claphamboy
The wheels on the bus go round and round....
*feels old & confused*
danny la rouge
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What a way to describe Mrs Clapham.*feels old & confused*
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