Twitter?
 

First off, I'm not sure if anyone else has posted anything on this subject, because I have not been here.

My question:

What is so great about this "Twitter" thing? I created one, to see what it does, and it doesn't do anything. Am I missing something here?

The power of twitter lies in amassing lots of followers and following people. It's like a news feed of random shit...everything from art, music, movies, "funny picture threads" etc, all wrapped into one continuous scroll of people that you loosely give a shit about (or don't...). But if you don't type anything and you don't follow anyone, no one will follow you and yes...if that occurs, it is indeed pointless.

For me, it's great for advertisement. I have already made a little $$$ just from using Twitter to promote my artwork. It ain't bad! Don't knock it till ya try it. If you have a Facebook account, think of it like Facebook's status updates, but instead of just your friends, it's a ton of random people that you don't know (yet). Nothing will happen if you don't dive in, though.

(Just don't be one of those people that says "I just took a shit", "it's monday, I'm tired", "I'm gonna go pick my kids up from school". Who cares, you mundane asshole?)

I have a myspace. It works the same as the status message. But even though, I have tried using Twitter a little since last night, it just isn't as appealing. You can't type much at once.

I'm going to try using it for a few more days. But so far, it isn't doing much for me.

You can't type that much because it's not meant to be walls of text. Remember, you have hundreds or thousands of people viewing your words (if they are following you), so the word limit is essentially there for "sporadic thought".

It's basically micro-blogging.

It probably won't appeal to you if you don't start following people (and thusly getting followed). It takes time, but I am following around 100 folks and about the same are following me. It's very entertaining to see what scrolls past at any given point of the day. It could be someone recommending a link to an online comic, maybe someone saying "have you seen this video?", or another horror fan talking about a new flick they watched. Whatever....

If Myspace and HDC are enough for you, then don't force it....no reason to if it doesn't appeal to you.

I took one look at the site, and said "fuck this".

It basically looked like broadcast texting to me. I don't give a damn about what people're doing every single minute of the day.

Just playing devil's advocate here...but you visit a message board, right? It's all the damn same, just different packaging. Just like on message boards, there are some retarded posts that you don't care about, but you just scroll past them. Some of them, however, are of interest so you click on them.

It's the exact same idea, just done with differently.

-D

...So if you go to twitter, expect more of the same?
I get the feeling even more assholes would intentionally target twitter too, so that doesn't exactly sell it for me, I get enough of all that here and the conversations generally have things of interest to me going on here anyways.

That's coming from me though, I said fuck it to myspace too...facebook is all I have and I barely even get on there.

I've never bothered with it... I use myspace for band stuff but that's the extent of my social networking apart from talking shit here.

I'm sure it's useful, I just never know what the hell to say.

See I'm with ya on this. I have a twitter account and I realized a few things:

1) I don't give a fuck about John Legend, why is it set up to automatically follow him and and bunch of other people I do not or will ever give two fucks about.

2) Waaaay too much information from too many people. I'm not going to care or have time to with all the microinfo from so many people.

I just use it to fuck around, I attempted to do a little trolling. I was amused that pornbots will become a follower of you.

I'm shitbag666satan on twitter