Twitter. Over-rated?

[Sunlover00]

Can't see the point myself. I don't want to know what people have had for breakfast or whether they have shaved their tash.

And if you use Twitter, why?

[bigbadwolf]

I think it's a pointless attempt wringing one more drop of blood from social networking. I find it boring, childish and the realm of teenagers.

[????]

I think it's a Fad (see also Second world/life or whatever that place was>) but I think Facebook is a trend and will stay

[Andystar]

One of my awesome buddies, swears by it, i thought it would be cr*p but she's doing an animation degree & she uses it to network with great results. i do hate it when the media use celeb twitters in news stories.

[Keef]

Any MP who uses it should be fired.

[dulwichmum]

I LOVE Twitter. It's my thang...

[bigbadwolf]

It shows.

[giggirl]

Vacuous waste of bandwith

[Jah Lush]

Personally I don't use it. I probably waste enough time on here and Facebook to be getting on with. I'd like to think I have a life.

[SeanMacGabhann]

I'm finding a lot of the comments on this thread either wrong, or just silly

As a news aggregator I often read stories a day or two before publication in several papers thanks to twitter. In that sense it is no worse, and often more useful than what most people posting on here do online - which is neither here nor there apart from the fact that people seem to dismiss it or look down their nose at it

I have never sent a message about my breakfast or ablutions - clicheville. And look at the name it's got "twit" in it - hahahahahahaahahh. And it sounds like twat!! Hilarious

sheesh

I'm guessing most of the people condemning it have never used it in earnest

As for the form itself it probably is a stopgap for something else - entirely likely that in 24 months the name twitter will be history - but the concept will be integrated into something else

And any political party which ignores it as a communications tool ould be very foolish indeed

[Tony.London Suburbs]

Agreed.

[Ted Max]

Irish writer puts up stout defence of Twitter after being annoyed by ill-informed comments? How uncanny.

[SeanMacGabhann]

Spooky... but it's not me I promise

He/She knows how to type "teh" for a start

But how did you come across it??

[Ted Max]

You know the answer to this. I saw it linked to ... on Twitter. (It's Graham Linehan, but I think you knew that too.)

[Sunlover00]

Fair point. Although you can't dispute the fact that SOME people use it (and other social network sites, forums, blogs, etc) in a pointless manner (again, my view only).

OK, maybe my view is not specific to twitter and I have the same view on those who feel compelled to post their exact movements on facebook.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> I'm finding a lot of the comments on this thread

> either wrong, or just silly

>

> As a news aggregator I often read stories a day or

> two before publication in several papers thanks to

> twitter. In that sense it is no worse, and often

> more useful than what most people posting on here

> do online - which is neither here nor there apart

> from the fact that people seem to dismiss it or

> look down their nose at it

>

> I have never sent a message about my breakfast or

> ablutions - clicheville. And look at the name it's

> got "twit" in it - hahahahahahaahahh. And it

> sounds like @#$%&!! Hilarious

>

> sheesh

>

> I'm guessing most of the people condemning it have

> never used it in earnest

>

> As for the form itself it probably is a stopgap

> for something else - entirely likely that in 24

> months the name twitter will be history - but the

> concept will be integrated into something else

>

> And any political party which ignores it as a

> communications tool ould be very foolish indeed

[Sue]

Jah Lush Wrote:

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> Personally I don't use it. I probably waste enough

> time on here and Facebook to be getting on with.

> I'd like to think I have a life.

xxxxxxx

Yeh in the CPT :))

:))

[mockney piers]

Most of these things do have practical uses but would amount to nothing if it wasn't for peoples desperate insecurities driving them to prove their importance in an uncaring universe by collecting friends like so many pokemon and splashing themselves on every modern media possible; or a solopsistic need to persuade themselves of their own existence. I twit therefore I am.

He interjected on an interweb forum, listen to me, affirm me, I matter.....I.....will get my coat....

[Ted Max]

Most of these things do have practical uses but would amount to nothing if it wasn't for peoples desperate insecurities driving them to prove their importance

- would amount to nothing

+ would be much better

I use Twitter for work. I can monitor lots of people pointing out and linking to articles and items of common interest. Inevitably there is some flag-waving and self-promotion, but it's easily ignored.

I don't really understand the hostility to the actual service, although the hagiographic media articles about it are indeed annoying.

[mockney piers]

"- would amount to nothing

+ would be much better"

that may be true, but they wouldn't achieve critical mass on the network effect either, sadly.

[zephyr]

I use it to keep up with rumours about my team - as I am on O2 I can subscribe to tweets by text. As far as I am concerned it is absolutely pointless following more than about 50 people (depending upon how much they twitter as I could never keep up.

I do follow a few celebs but not many. I follow a couple of journalist from a IT magazine that I subscribe to and of course I follow the delightful Dulwichmum.

Only time will tell whether it will last.

Strangely none of my close friends are on twitter but they are on Facebook as I am.

I would agree with Sean - the majority of those who condemn it probably have never used it.

Actually I have heard that somewhere before.... oh yes, the Millennium Dome. Many of those who critised it never went. I thought it was great - I spend 8 hours there and still never got to see all of it.

[????]

Ok, Ok, I've never used it - but having an opinion about something I've not a clue about has never stopped me before. But conceptually it's up there with the updates on facebook, once you've too many friends (i've 7) it gets a bit of a pain...I should give it a go but spend enough time on here as it is

[timmyt]

I been using twitter for few weeks was intially quite fun then it soon becomes quite boring. If you follow some of the celebs they use it just as an advertising platform. After you follow more and more people it gets to the point where you dont have time to read them anymore. recommend using tweetdeck application if your going to try it

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[ratty]

David Lloyd (@bumblecricket) mailed me personally on it this morning about a strip pub in Vauxhall (The Queen Anne). How fooking ace is that??

[bigbadwolf]

I went there for a friends birthday once Ratty, It's gash.

[dulwichmum]

I find Twitter great fun. It is a bit disappionting that people are so dismissive of it, I remember when I first heard of Facebook, it was a link someone posted on the forum, and I seem to remember that people couldn't see the point of it then.

Two days ago my favourite leather handbag was savaged by my darling cockapoo and I sulked and had a tantrum about it on Twitter. Mulberry have contacted me via Twitter and offered to repair it for me.