Twitter

[FM]

ok, who's a twit and is addicted to this thing...

http://www.twitter.com

[AntonyM]

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Not sure I have enough tech savvy friends to get proper use of this, also bit of a recluse, but going to give it a shot anyway.

[toasty]

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signed on a few weeks ago, and find it pretty interesting. Had to turn off device updates for some of my friends, though, as my phone was getting bombarded with tweets.

Find any cool/unusual people to follow?

[AntonyM]

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Yeah MC Hammer, got to love it, guess he has some spare time on his hands as well.

[Huggie Smiles]

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I dont get it really? Your real life friends tell you where they had lunch, without having to actually speak to you;
and you find out the antics of complete internet randoms?

or am I missing something obvious?

[toasty]

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I dont get it really? Your real life friends tell you where they had lunch, without having to actually speak to you;
and you find out the antics of complete internet randoms?

or am I missing something obvious?

You're not missing anything, but here's how I look at it -- I have increasingly less time to spend with my friends, but with twitter, I still feel like they are a part of my day when I hear about the minutiae of their daily lives. Every now and then, too, someone will post something really thought interesting or thought provoking.

Now with that said, not everyone I follow gets forwarded to my phone -- some people tweet too damn much, some people don't have anything of interest to say at all, etc. I try to make an effort to limit it to 3 or 4 a day, to chronicle the more significant thoughts and events, whereas some people will literally send out tweets like "taking a crap." There will probably be a day where I take a dump of such magnitude that it warrants inclusion on twitter, but that hasn't happened yet.

I generally do not follow random people on twitter unless they happen to do something unique that is worth reading beyond the reason you would normally subscribe to a twitter feed. There is one person in particular that does all of her posts in haiku, which I think is pretty cool.

[AntonyM]

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I think the obvious aspect is the ready nature of so many people to hop on board with out thought, twisted humor or blind following, researching at the moment.

[clintlove]

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never heard of it and doesn't sound like something i would use, seems a bit invasive

[FM]

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hey cool! I found Darth Vader.

http://www.twitter.com/darthvader

the force is still strong

[darin epsilon]

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Absolutely am not getting the point of this website. It's been touted as the next big social network for a while now.

[picklemonkey]

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I've contemplated signing up for it, but I haven't because I think Facebook's status update is one in the same. I don't know as many friends on Twitter as there are on Facebook to convince me to move to it

[toasty]

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I've contemplated signing up for it, but I haven't because I think Facebook's status update is one in the same. I don't know as many friends on Twitter as there are on Facebook to convince me to move to it

If I'm not mistaken, you can link the two, so when you update your twitter status, it updates your facebook status and vice-versa. The primary benefit to twitter over facebook is its mobility, I think -- anyone with a mobile phone can use it, and you can have other people's updates sent directly to your phone.

Can be handy for when you need to update a large number of people of something at the same time. Let's say you're going to Mardi Gras with a group of 10 people and you each subscribe to each other's twitter feeds. When you inevitably get separated, just send out a text to twitter saying "Pat O'Brien's @ 3" and everyone is notified at once without you having to individually text or call 9 people.

Lots of other applications, too. It's not a revolutionary tool by any means and it doesn't replace facebook, but it does fill a niche...

[lilsensa]

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http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/02/17/twitter.surgery/index.html

[AntonyM]

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^ Little different, sounds interesting unless things get a bit messy on the operating table.

[art71]

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I had signed up about a month ago and I am just starting to go on and use it. It is very strange going from facebook to twitter though. But its worth a shot.