Bass-Invader
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IT disabled the camera on my phone. man that sucks. i could take pics of all sort of stupid british shit.
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I just signed up for twitter
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I still haven't found it at all useful, just trendy. I try to stick with these kinds of things anyway--just in case they take off--but my interest remains low for now.
Then again, when it doesn't take any extra work I don't mind... and for a little while I had a WP plugin sending updates to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace via ping.fm. I even set it up so that Twitter would, in turn, update my status on other services (including my own site, which was a fun little hack job), but as much as this establishes some geek cred, it still has no real purpose--just like many other blogging-related coding projects. Sometimes these things are done just so we can say "ha, we did it" without any thought for the all-important question: "but what is it all for?"
Then again, when it doesn't take any extra work I don't mind... and for a little while I had a WP plugin sending updates to Twitter, Facebook, and MySpace via ping.fm. I even set it up so that Twitter would, in turn, update my status on other services (including my own site, which was a fun little hack job), but as much as this establishes some geek cred, it still has no real purpose--just like many other blogging-related coding projects. Sometimes these things are done just so we can say "ha, we did it" without any thought for the all-important question: "but what is it all for?"
Of course twitter has no real purpose is THATs how your're using it. You're doing it wrong.
Yeah, and 24% of Americans also own a Tiesto cd...
Perhaps you missed what I was saying. I tried it before and found it useless. Only then did I muck around with automating it... to at least keep the fires burning until I do find a use for it.
But, do tell, what is its grand function? How does it satisfy a social need? I don't really care if someone I don't know is eating a cheeseburger in Seattle.
Bass-Invader
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what if it was a double cheeseburger?
Michlerish
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Twitter is what YOU make it.
If you only post about drinking coffee in Toronto, then you'll only get tweets about eating cheeseburgers in Seattle.
If you only post about drinking coffee in Toronto, then you'll only get tweets about eating cheeseburgers in Seattle.
deep
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daddyiwantchocolate
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i joined twitter for the second time last week.
mc hammer is following me.
I follow him, john cleese, ashton and demi (but I'm going to can them soon they're so boring) and a few tribers.
The End.
mc hammer is following me.
I follow him, john cleese, ashton and demi (but I'm going to can them soon they're so boring) and a few tribers.
The End.
Michlerish
Well-Known TRIBEr
mc hammer is boring... his buddy justin bobby is funny.
demi and ashton seem so full of themselves. but I can't stop following.
why aren't you following me?
demi and ashton seem so full of themselves. but I can't stop following.
why aren't you following me?
daddyiwantchocolate
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i dunno what your name is?
And yeah, hammer is boring but he started following me and I felt bad deleting him.
And yeah, hammer is boring but he started following me and I felt bad deleting him.
Since I'm not a marketer, just how useful is this aggregate inanity? I might satisfy my curiosity by checking in with the Twitter zeitgeist to discover that, shockingly, those who are wired and hip enough to use Twitter probably like Obama's pro-technology vibe... but beyond that, I haven't really seen a point to it. (And this thread isn't helping much.)
Bass-Invader
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i wonder if freddie murphy has twitter
Michlerish
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diwc, it's same as on here
I tried finding Paul Thomas Anderson and Daniel Day-Lewis but no dice, which sucks- I wanted to tweet "I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE- I DRINK IT UP" to them
maybe I can find them on assbook. Though if my favourite alumnus from ANTM didn't accept my friend request, I doubt they will as well
maybe I can find them on assbook. Though if my favourite alumnus from ANTM didn't accept my friend request, I doubt they will as well
deep
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The coverage of the mumbai terror attacks was a highly interesting example of twitter's value over conventional news. Same ability to tap into buzz right now, for a different end. Having a real time search engine is not just of interest to marketers.
I get that you think it's superfluous noise but saying it's just making something for the sake of doing so is a bit much. I'm not yet part of the twitter flag waving set, but if you can't even see the incremental value add, you don't get it or are trying to hard to say it's nothing.
I think status updates and item postings on facebook, and twitter both do kind of the same thing. Enable non-realtime conversations on what people are up to or attending to without having to ask the question or repeat it for others. There's a space that people like to converse at that is beneath the "tell me your grand unifying theory of the universe". Once you see a swell of casual conversation rise up around what you keep calling inane, or realize you know what your friends are up to more easily than asking them one by one, the incremental value is clear.
OTOH I think it's a legitimate criticism that the kind of social activity thes tools encourage is more egocentric than bidirectional. Shots out into the dark and vanity than conversation or curiosity about others. Is that more connected than nothing though? Is that not the point?
Oh, I wouldn't say that. My "something for the sake of doing so" was about pointlessly hacking up Twitter to work with different services without even having any real appreciation for what the service is good for
reminds me a lot of other similar projects I see while cruising through various blogs (particularly blogs about blogs).Michlerish
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While there's a lot of people out there who use social networking for egocentric purposes (ugh, twitter spam and pyramid schemes), I have to say that the majority of Twitter is comprised of positive, omnidirectional interactions with people all over the world.
It gets more and more interesting and useful to me everyday.
deep
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Oh, I wouldn't say that. My "something for the sake of doing so" was about pointlessly hacking up Twitter to work with different services without even having any real appreciation for what the service is good for
So you were pointing that at the integrating tool more than the social tool? Ok, but I integration and adoption are relevant.
Even if Twitter's the de facto "now" tool for the technically inclined, Facebook has far more uptake and performs other relevant functions to make it a social platform of choice for many. At least the mash up tool lets you get access to whoever is on whatever for whatever reason.
An example of something cool about Twitter - Last thursday me and 25 other Edmontonians met for the first time at a bar, had a great time, talked technology all night, and raised $1000 for the charity: water. Some of us were following some others, but none of us knew everyone, and now more of us are following more of each other. And what they're saying is sometimes interesting.
follow me - @solakov
follow me - @solakov
daddyiwantchocolate
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lofl!!!
well, in that example, twitter could easily have been replaced by a google group, mailing list, whatever ... but yes, it did bring together a bunch of individuals who probably wouldn't have met otherwise.
i like twitter ... it doesn't blow me away like IRC did 15+ years ago, but it's a useful tool which probably won't be going anywhere any time soon (especially since competitive services are cropping up now).
i'm also mattt416 on twitter, tho rarely have anything insightful to say.