Do you use twitter?

[Meecrob]

What's up with twitter? Seems like a lot of people are creaming their jeans over it, but I can't see much point to obsessive status-updating... maybe im missing a crucial feature but I just cant see why anyone needs it.

if you dont know what it is:
twitter.com

 

[epochblue]

What's up with twitter? Seems like a lot of people are creaming their jeans over it, but I can't see much point to obsessive status-updating... maybe im missing a crucial feature but I just cant see why anyone needs it.

if you dont know what it is:
twitter.com

I'm glad you asked this - I've been wondering the same thing myself...seems like IM away messages without the IM. Interesting, but I'm not so sure it's a "killer webapp" for me.

 

[Flyinace2000]

Its not killer by any means, but its fun to use. My sister and several freinds use it. Its all about getting your "network" on it.

 

[Lyle]

I've just started playing with it (befriend me! Please!) but the novelty is wearing off quickly. For the same reasons that I never got into IM'ing, I don't think I'm going to get into Twitter either. I wonder if it's a generational thing?

 

[ITASOR]

I don't think it's a generation thing, because I'm in the generation that would like it and I think it's completely idiotic.

Who cares what people are doing every minute of the day? Who would even go there to browse what other people have/did do? That just seems really weird, and almost sick to have "update twitter with what I'm going to do next" pop up in your mind before you do something.

I see that people can text in (via cell) an entry. It looks like people are about to start writing a report, so they whip their phone out, text "Writing a report" to twitter, and then do it. Repeat for each activity done during the day...something's wrong with that.

 

[wmmk]

I've never seen this, yet it seems rather odd. Although I am also in the generation that 'should' like this sort of thing, I truly don't find it all that compelling.

I see that people can text in (via cell) an entry. It looks like people are about to start writing a report, so they whip their phone out, text "Writing a report" to twitter, and then do it. Repeat for each activity done during the day...something's wrong with that.

I completely agree. To reinforce your point, some guy just said he was 'being bitten by a playful kitten.'

That scares me...

 

[osirisX]

I really couldn't be bothered to continue updating it.

 

[Bubbasteve]

It's really simple and stupid yet I can't help but update mine....

But I'm a sucker for social networking sites (virb, twitter, facebook....)

 

[TheAnswer]

Yeah...same story here...interesting concept, but it seems the people that are doing interesting things are too busy to update it.

 

[fistful]

fistful is reading a thread on MacRumors about twitter. less than 2 minutes ago from MacRumors
fistful is going to the toilet. less than 90 seconds ago from MacRumors
fistful is back from the toilet less than 1 minute ago from MacRumors
fistful is reading about twitter on MacRumors again. less than 20 seconds ago from MacRumors


Yeah, I don't get it...

 

[eluk]

Are the people that use it known as 'twits'.

 

[Tommyjolly]

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[psycoswimmer]

I have no idea how I could update that site every time I do something different. It seems like a complete waste of time.

 

[Tommyjolly]

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[Bubbasteve]

and just like that my interest for it died....lasted a good two days

 

[tiante]

If anyone is interested to talk about Twitter, I have found some twitter forums, looks like they are starting a new community there around twitter.

http://www.twitterforum.com

 

[FocusAndEarnIt]

I don't think it's a generation thing, because I'm in the generation that would like it and I think it's completely idiotic.

Who cares what people are doing every minute of the day? Who would even go there to browse what other people have/did do? That just seems really weird, and almost sick to have "update twitter with what I'm going to do next" pop up in your mind before you do something.

I see that people can text in (via cell) an entry. It looks like people are about to start writing a report, so they whip their phone out, text "Writing a report" to twitter, and then do it. Repeat for each activity done during the day...something's wrong with that.

I totally & completely agree with you.

A friend made me make an account, I logged in once and said, "wow, this is lame" and logged out. Haven't been in since...

 

[b0tt094]

persoanlly I use these sites, to look at my freisn's pictures (private profiles like myspace) I also use them to, u kno just connect. Personally I ahte mysapce it is overly commercialized, I like facebook more, simple, clean, elegant

It gets to the point, No waiting for myspace to load some obnoxious layout that u cant read because some idiot thought it would be cool to make the background and text the same color.