Twitter

Twitter is Good and speed messaging site.

Twitter is very popular, so it obviously sucks. Wolf Blitzer Twitter's for fucksake. So does Bill O'Rielly. This shit has obviously jumped the shark. Facebook too.

I honestly don't really care what other people are doing every single moment of the day. I mean I'm not a big Tweeter, if thats what it's called. I feel like "Oh. Good for you that you just saw Mike. But do I really care?" Probably not.

Social site where you keep your followers and friends up to date. Tweet your thoughts and what you are doing and let everyone know! Great social site.

Twitter sucks and if I want to read someone's thoughts or opinions I will read their blog.

I am that really fun on twitter.

Twiter is the largest mini blog on the Web

All my friends used to hate twitter, but I'm not cynical so I got one anyway. For a while I used it as kind of a diary, but then all my friends got jealous and got twitters, and it is a great way to communicate with very close friends! I wouldn't want to follow anyone outside my immediate group of close friends, but we're always together so we can make tweets like 'going outside, brb' 'I'll be there in 15 minutes' 'who's at Kate's house?' 'are we doing anything for New years?', and they are relevant to everyone in our little group (we have it on our phones). It really keeps us all up to date with what's going on. Of course, we also use it for funny quotes and to keep ourselves amused during work or school. I just wish the word limit was a little less restrictive. Verbose is my middle name. I appreciate the conciseness to a certain degree, but maybe 200 characters would be better....

Micro-blogging in 140 characters and less leads to some hilarious one-liners. Not as long, boring, and annoying as an actual blog but still gets the point across to those who care to read it.

Works for what it does. But it doesn't really do all that much...

Today, I tried on Twitter, but it only for mobile phone owners. that sucks. :(

The World is Your Follower: Twitter is cool because you can follow anyone, literally see what anyone is doing without them having to follow you back. There is no approval process. So use the Person Finder at the top and search for anybody; celebrities, musicians, politicans, activists, charities, whatever you can think of. If they, in turn, follow you, that is considered a friendship and most of the time, that means you can send them a direct message from now on - like an Email, but more likely to be read. The Stream Is Real (in Time) Search and find, then follow. You'll notice a sudden stream of tweeted messages, in real time, showing up on your page. So Matt Damon is actually sitting somewhere typing what you just read right now. That's why it is popular. Everyone feels like they are in the next room. You can follow and be followed. You Are It! The more people that follow you, the more people that you can send your own news to. Become an activist for something. Become an expert ... Read more

Ahhh I get it. I typed in "sex" because I am a perv and it is like text messages to strangers who don't care. They even made sex sound boring. Anyone I know that is not a virgin, doesn't say goofy crap like "sex on fire"...It looked like changing your Facebook status. Not for me xD I am not saying it's BAD, I bet most people who play on it also like to text message. Since I don't like texting, I don't like twitter. But do me a favor? If you twitter try to stand out. Make the site more interesting one twitter at a time.

At first I didn't quite understand why I needed Twitter, however now I am an addict. This site is really great for getting news, marketing, and keeping in touch with friends in 140 characters or less. I follow many news sites and its nice to have one place to open them all. Sure, I could have a RSS feed, but Twitter also allows me to stay in touch with my personal friendships, which an RSS will not allow! It's a super site, but I do wish there were more security settings!

Back in my college days, I was involved in the making of a couple of films. One of the key elements was character development...making the characters interesting enough that you actually cared about them. This, of course, involves a filtering process, wherein, mundane things are filtered out... things that are implied... like eight hours of sleep, meals, getting somewhere, grooming and defecating and wiping. So, I always wondered what it would be like if someone allowed their entire day to be filmed and concluded that it would be unbearably boring. It is this kind of filtering that makes reality shows bearable (to some)...as only the "essence" of the day...things that are germane to subject at hand make it through. Yes, even following Monica Bellucci around for a day might be tedious (depending on creative camera angles). I can, however, see the value in Twittering as a business application, where this app can replace emails that require mass cc'ing, or keeping up on trends and the c... Read more

My daughter can tweet, text and update her Facebook status all day long. I've looked over her shoulder and witnessed the invaluable broadcast of such gems as: Tweet: just updated my Facebook status Facebook Status: ...is tweeting... Text mesasage: Hey girl did you read my tweet about Facebook? lol. That's when I make her turn everything off and take me and the dog for a walk.

I love Twitter! It's a great way to keep in touch with local friends without having to send out multiple texts, calls or emails. It's the most convenient way to keep up to date about your friends lives. It forces people to be terse. It's also a great newsfeed. I follow several ezines and if the tweet sounds interesting, I click on their link. For all the haters, I recommend you try it first. I remember it sounded like the dumbest thing at first, but now, I hardly journal, or IM. I just Twitter. I love it!

I dont understand the popularity of this bullshit site. Its just a glorified messanger to me. I believe its only a matter of time before Twitter fades away.

. . . I can't think of a single person whose thoughts are so interesting that I'm compelled to get an update 24 hours a day in 160-character increments. Not even my husband ( . . . actually, ESPECIALLY my husband. If you knew him, you'd understand.) And I'm not even going to pretend that I have anything that interesting to say that I'd go streaming it: "6:30am: Woke up. Hit Snoozebar." "6:39am: Woke up again. Hit Snoozebar." "6:48am: Woke up. Again. Snoozebar. Again." "6:52am: Cat jumps on me. Walks on me until she gets to my face. Demands breakfast." "6:53am: Cat walks down to my abdomen and starts that kneading thing. Right where my bladder is. Now I gotta get up to go to the bathroom." "6:55am: Cat demands breakfast at the bathroom door." "6:57am: Putting in my contacts, get startled by alarm clock I forgot to turn off. Drop contact. Dammit." Seriously, if you want to write a play-by-play of your life for your own purposes, go for it. I'll skip on the subscri... Read more

Great site~!

I knew I would hate this. But under pressure from my daughter I tried it. Now I don't hate it. I FUCKING LOATHE IT. I would happily run down the inventor of this and tear his throat out with my teeth. I have never been exposed to so much mindless, self absorbed, imbecilic, pointless drivel in my ENTIRE FUCKING LIFE. I sincerely hope the foregoing has not been too ambiguous.

I've been on twitter since its early days and have seen how the way its used have evolved over time. The worst way twitter demeans itself is by the tagline "What are you doing?" It is as detrimental to the site's image as saying blogs are just for venting out and whining about teenage life woes. but reality is despite how well you might paint an image of twitter or blogs, the undesirable does rear its head into prominence. I have always missed the twitter IM bot, no other solution felt as easy as that one and yes I really need it back. Absence of IM-bot possibly is one of the reasons for a large number of twitter clients with all the major ones being developed on Adobe AIR. People outside twitter see all the unimportant tweets that come up at far larger frequencies than some worthwhile news piece. The only way users can keep the important and useful tweets current is to retweet or copy and post them again. Twitter is a source that can update from a variety of interfaces as well as di... Read more

Really what's the point of Twitter? What need does it fill? What problem does it solve? What desire does it meet? Basically "Twittering" is a way of letting the world know what you're doing at the moment. At least that's how most people use it. You can update your account through their website or by text message. I suppose that some have a desire to let other people know what they're thinking or doing at any given moment. To know that other people care about what they're doing! I don't know about you, but I don't really care about what anyone is doing at any given time. I have enough of a life that I don't need to engage in high-tech voyeurism!! Do people really want to know my daily routine, when I go to the bank or to the grocery store, or what I'm doing at work at any given moment? I have a hard time believing that people do. And really, what truly substantive thoughts can you communicate with less than 140 words? The problem with a lot of social networks is that they e... Read more

Today basically a distributor for people who write blogs or invest in social media or just i don't know, maybe want to create something used by lots of other people that has to do with...i don't know. Memories of the original chat services come to mind. Memories of FIX in financial services, streaming anything is eye candy for a while until people get bored. Recall "push"? Pointcast? Anyway, i use twitter to feel good about getting brainfarts out of my brain but there is little to no feedback loop so either my brainfarts are not interesting or people just can't ingest them or have time to ingest them. Today, it may be that the people who might want to read my brainfarts probably don't see them b/c they are already drowning it brainfarts from bloggers, spammers, whackos, or business people just basically "pushing their book".

I will admit that the first time some friends of mine told me that I needed to be on twitter, I was skeptical. But I signed up anyway. At first, I thought it was such a waste of my time, but it has actually become a source of amusement for me. And surprisingly, it has helped me keep up with some of my friends that I don't see often. 140 characters of "what am I doing" isn't enough to say a whole lot, but it does keep me that much more connected, and quite often, the "tweets" I receive are a source of amusement. My verdict? Probably not for everyone, but if you're connected and have a friend or two on twitter, it is entirely worthwhile, I know I have enjoyed it (and I wasn't a "twitterer" until just recently). (although, I will warn you that the consumption of alcohol and twitter via cell phone can be very...ummm...embarrassing but oh so amusing combination. ;)

Twitter is all the rage among SF geeks right now. It's a mobile network similar to Dodgeball that lets groups of people stay connected via SMS (or IM). The most common use of Twitter seems to be to blast out to the world (or at least your "followers") what you are doing at any given moment, e.g. "studying for a test," "going to the bank," etc.) For a full write up of how to use it, check out Rafe Needleman's review.

People that are into Twitter are really into Twitter. I guess I haven't been infected yet.