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Who here uses Twitter?

Post Post #0 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 8:49 am

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Umm... yeah, it's a simple question, not much more to explain.

For those who don't know: www.twitter.com You answer: "What are you doing now?"

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Post Post #1 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 9:57 am

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Um... no. Looks interesting, but while simplification is good, this is way oversimplificated (Wait, is that a real word?).
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Post Post #2 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:06 am

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It's an oversimplification of what?

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Post Post #3 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:27 am

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Of social networking. "What are you doing?" doesn't answer questions like "Why?" or "With whom?"

If I'm going to find out what my friends are up to, I don't want random factoids. My friends are all interesting people who are completely unlike me, and I like studying them for the sake of figuring out how to become a better person by their standards.

Good social networking will associate a why with the what - it's what makes us understand each other as humans.
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Post Post #4 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 10:55 am

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Wouldn't the answer always be "Um, I'm typing something on Twitter"
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Post Post #5 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 11:05 am

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I was going to make a smilie to agree with Yosarian2, but apparently the server that makes said smilies is currently not working.
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Post Post #6 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:34 pm

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No... You can post to twitter a number of ways... one is to just click an add-in button in your browser that says: "Browsing <URL>" or whatever...

Wow, I don't always want to know why. What is often enough.

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Post Post #7 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 3:01 pm

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jeep wrote:Wow, I don't always want to know why. What is often enough.

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Why?

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Post Post #8 (ISO) » Sat Dec 01, 2007 4:20 pm

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Actually I use it. Yay for Firefox Extensions!
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Post Post #9 (ISO) » Sun Dec 02, 2007 11:41 am

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you must be bored as hell to use that.

pulling pants down now.

sitting down on toilet atm.

dropping excrement ftw.

wiping ass now.

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Post Post #10 (ISO) » Sun Dec 02, 2007 2:27 pm

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Yeah. I've tried myspace and then facebook. Never much liked social networkingn sites.
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Post Post #11 (ISO) » Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:59 am

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I refuse to use twitter. Twitter is facebook for people too lazy to type. Instagram is even worse. It's twitter for people who can't read!
In post 9, schismatized wrote:you must be bored as hell to use that.

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Post Post #12 (ISO) » Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:25 am

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Five year necro isn't worth it.

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Post Post #13 (ISO) » Sat Jun 08, 2013 7:10 am

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In post 12, Kublai Khan wrote:Five year necro isn't worth it.

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Post Post #14 (ISO) » Sat Jun 08, 2013 9:00 am

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I thought this topic was kind of funny
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Post Post #15 (ISO) » Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:41 pm

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In post 9, schismatized wrote:you must be bored as hell to use that.

pulling pants down now.

sitting down on toilet atm.

dropping excrement ftw.

wiping ass now.

using twitter.
I liked this pretty well.
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Post Post #16 (ISO) » Sat Jun 08, 2013 6:58 pm

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"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill with rope and a slim majority."

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Post Post #17 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 5:43 am

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Five year necro is way funnier now than it was in 2007, tbh.

Also, fuck twitter. The City just got on there this year and we have a new 'category' of priority cases based on someone reporting it via twitter, because "everyone can read the complaint". Jesus wept.
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Post Post #18 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:14 am

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Post Post #19 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 9:57 am

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I rarely use it.
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Post Post #20 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 1:32 pm

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Post Post #21 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 4:54 pm

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Eh, I have a twitter, mainly to follow smart people. But even then the medium tends to dumb down everything. I've found only three people that have worthwhile tweets every time: Neil Degrass Tyson, Nate Silver, and a very intelligent friend of mine. I'm sure there are a few more, but they are far, far outweighed by the mountain of useless crap. I basically never tweet myself, because it's stupid.
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Post Post #22 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:06 pm

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I never used to tweet, but I'm getting really sick of the privacy invasion from Facebook. I just deleted my Facebook account, but I might use Twitter to stay in touch with a few people.
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Post Post #23 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:53 pm

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Or maybe just email?

Nexus sure does tweet a lot.
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Post Post #24 (ISO) » Sun Jun 09, 2013 7:14 pm

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In post 21, Bub Bidderskins wrote:Eh, I have a twitter, mainly to follow smart people. But even then the medium tends to dumb down everything. I've found only three people that have worthwhile tweets every time: Neil Degrass Tyson, Nate Silver, and a very intelligent friend of mine. I'm sure there are a few more, but they are far, far outweighed by the mountain of useless crap. I basically never tweet myself, because it's stupid.
So, I use twitter a lot, way more than Facebook in fact (My facebook wall is moslty automated copies of my tweets)

As Bud, I use it mostly to follow people who I don't know personally, but want to hear updates: developers of games I'm playing, local reporters, city office, a few bands/performance groups who announce their next performances through twitter. It is great for news, but I would never dream of following people for the "social" aspect (which is a misunderstanding many of the 2007 repliers did - can't blame them).

Funny thing, twitter is wildly popular in Japan. My students won't follow my webpage to get lecture materials, but they will follow my twitter account at the drop of a hat.
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