Anyone use twitter?

[dwixi]

Anyone here use twitter?

Well I do...

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[R.Danneskjöld]

It's like Facebook, but with anything remotely useful removed. I dont understand it.

[dwixi]

Originally Posted by R.Danneskjöld

It's like Facebook, but with anything remotely useful removed. I dont understand it.

I thought that at first. but theres really something to it. It focuses the attention on what you write. I think of it as a micro blog crossed with a great way to chat with and find new people.

[FireWalkWithMe]

I deleted my account after coming to the conclusion that no one really cares what I post on there, about 1% of people under "friends" were people I actually knew. And the spammers were unbeatable. I even wrote to Twitter about people who friend you (along with thousands of others) hoping to get exposure. Since then they've implemented some new features but none were strong enough to make me want to stay.

[Theaetetus]

I don't find Twitter to be very useful. It would be one thing if you could write 300 word posts, but the limitations on character counts are ridiculous and a tells a lot about societies lack of an attention span. But I also found Facebook to not be very useful until it was opened up to the general public and I could easily stay in contact and find old friends of mine. Facebook has pretty much replaced my e-mail account for staying in touch with friends simplifying the whole process.

[Aedes]

I use Facebook -- most people I care about are on it. Not sure what Twitter has to offer me. Facebook is a great place to share photos and videos with family members.

[Zetherin]

Danne, I'm with you. What in the world is this Twitter nonsense? The site should be castrated immediately. No real need for this site at all - every other social networking site has a mini-blog status option so you can tell the world what you're doing at any given moment in time. Why make a whole site based on just this?! A whole site started on a feature of a networking site, imagine that. Just one feature. Why not just, yanno, SIGN UP FOR THE NETWORKING SITE WITH ALL FEATURES?! Maybe people just want another username and password to remember. We can't get enough usernames and passwords.

And why in the world would I care what someone, I don't even know, is doing? Boredom? Extreme curiosity? Some kind of mental illness?

This fad needs to be shot as soon as possible.

[Theaetetus]

As I said, I think Twitter would be a useful tool if it allowed for word counts approaching 500 words. It would be a very effective blog site then, which could reach appropriate audiences. But as it stands, it really speaks to what is wrong with society--people in general do not have the necessary attention span to be constructive members of a democratic society. Rather than promoting constructive thought, it limits its potential immensely. Rather than worrying about what people are doing, we should be worrying about what people are thinking. And this cannot be done in the limitations of Twitter. I could careless what people are doing at this moment, but I do care what people are thinking. We need to start sharing our best thoughts with others, and things like Twitter limit that possibility that this would be an achievable goal.

[Aedes]

So what does Facebook lack that Twitter has?

[Theaetetus]

Nothing. Facebook though is more for sharing with only friends, but Twitter is more about reaching a wider audience. But Twitter is so limiting that it pretty much forces people to post benign thoughts about action rather than their best thoughts about deeper things.