Do you tweet?

[Maurice]

I read with great interest in the FT about the young man who finds twitter pointless for young people and, in a rare moment, found I share a viewpoint with someone in their teens.

I've become quite savvy on the new media scale for an old fart. And though I may not fully understand it, the whole twitter world seems pointless. True, there appear to be a few people who excel at using it as a vehicle. But they were people who were interesting anyway. The onslaught of people posting mindless tweets about 'I'm am on the train to work' and 'tonight I cooked Delia's latest recipe' has not capture my interest. And, it appears, not the young generations either.

Do you tweet?

Article from FT

[????]

a fad not a trend IMO

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

No, I always walk like this.

[Maurice]

Oh dear crasher, I have several drawers full of ointments, one of which may help. Do let me know.

[flapjackdavey]

Maurice Wrote:

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Do you tweet?

no .... but I do parp occasionally .

[Peckwich]

I created an account but rarely use it. I get email notifications when someone is 'following' me on Twitter even when there is nothing to follow. The one time I have found it useful was when on the way home a few weeks ago there was a massive diversion on Old Kent Road whereby it was closed off from Albany Road to Bricklayers Arms. Couldn't find anything on any news website about it but went on twitter and found a few people twittering about it and what had happened.

[Mick Mac]

I tried it for a bit - could not see what the point was so retreated to the EDF where people actually reply to my meaningless posts - much better.

[woofmarkthedog]

Maurice wrote

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Do you tweet?

No but 'I'm am on the train to work' and 'tonight I cooked Delia's latest recipe' if that helps ?

[zephyr]

I tweet but then I also use facebook. In fact my tweets update my facebook status.

It is worth being on twitter just to follow dulwichmum!

I am certainly not as obsessed as some and only follow about 50 people who are a mixture of friends, celebs magazine columists etc.

[Keef]

I think it's stupid.

[Ted Max]

@Keef @maurice @???? @Mick Mac You are all missing out. On my second coffee of the morning. Get in.

[sophiesofa]

Twitter is a load of twatter. I think it has been overtaken by corporate companies and their tweets. Then again I can't stand the live feed bit on facebook, there's always one or two people who fill the page with stuff i have no desire to know such as james 7:43am I don't want to go to work. james 8:02 Leaving for work James 8:57: Ah i'm at work Jane (his grilfriend) 9:02 I know baby I don't want to be at work either. Who cares!

[*Bob*]

I've just had a dump. More to follow.

[Ted Max]

RT @*BoB* I've just had a dump. More to follow. > ... Eat more fibre, @*Bob*.

[bigbadwolf]

Ted's got a point *Bob*, eat more fibrous food otherwise your next trip to the toilet could result in a nasty case of 'bednobs and broomsticks'. It's a lot more painful than it sounds.

[mockney piers]

I hate twitter, its the epitome of the solipsistic nature of blogging and 'social networking'. Me me, look at me, I'm important!!!

I do make an exception for David Lloyd's frankly surreal cricket tweet which is a sort of mad genius.

[AcedOut]

Off to eat lunch...

[sophiesofa]

am scrathing arse

[sophiesofa]

arh that's better

[Muley]

am removing dead arse-skin flakes from under fingernails?

[sophiesofa]

have no dead arse-skin flakes as I have a youngish bottom. Am wearing pants and a dress so even if i did suffer for dead arsearitus no fingernail scraping would be necessary.

[HAL9000]

@edf Just cogetating over sophie's youngish arse.

[Muley]

* Goes all Hugh Grant-ish*

"Oh. Right. Yes, of course, erm, thanks. Sorry to have, er, bothered you.

I'll just, er...

'bye..."

[sophiesofa]

am now eating ham sandwich at desk whilst contemplating what my arse will be like when i'm old

[Muley]

Remove ham from sandwich and leave on desk for weekend.

Revisit ham on Monday morning.

There's your answer.