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kmkrout

tomasmejor

EileenFB

nicholasreed

an astoundingly original one, I know.

I've been falling behind on twitter but I still use it. It's an interesting form of communication.

rabidcow

A kind of amusing someEcard about Twitter went up today:
http://www.someecards.com/usercards/...77c905cc642594

Twitter is my crack.

These are some lazy mother fuckers then with all the breaks they take (says the guy posting on a message board)

Michael Ian Black's been pretty fun to follow today. He invented the Fuck It List, then created a separate twitter account for it so people can send in their own entries for things they don't need to do before they die. Now he's realizing that people on the internet aren't as funny as they think they are and it was probably a bad idea.

starvingdogs

Sad realization: Ludacris' Twitter account is just a way for him to promote his new line of juice drinks.

@ludajuice is no longer my friend.

Well, well, guess who's famous:

http://twitter.com/Fake_devincf

Awesome. haha.

I signed up 6 months ago. Then forgot about it. I go back cause someone on this site mentioned it. I start following people. Then I get this email.


HEAVENTRUTH.ORG (HeavenTruthOrg) is now following your updates on Twitter.

Check out HEAVENTRUTH.ORG's profile here:
http://twitter.com/HeavenTruthOrg

You may follow HEAVENTRUTH.ORG as well by clicking on the "follow" button.
Best,
Twitter



Now I know He's watching me.

Damnit, how am I supposed to have fun with this thing now?

Can someone explain the point of Twitter to me? I signed up but I don't get it. Why bother with it when you can just use Facebook and have all the other neat features besides just status updates?

Just another reason to show how narcissistic people are.

It's not quite as cool if you don't have a mobile phone, but I like it because it's like having a mini-blog. You can post what's on your mind, what you're doing, what you think about certain things, without having to keep up a blog, etc. For example, I'm watching Battlestar Galactica season 1 and posting my thoughts on the show as I go through it. It's more "in the moment" thoughts than anything else. It's totally narcissistic, but no less so than say Facebook. It's also fun to follow celebrities and have conversations with your friends about things in a more fluid fashion. Plus, you can link Facebook through Twitter so all your bases are covered.

Twitter is not a reason.

It's novel, I guess. I don't know, I've been using it for a while and it hasn't changed my world or anything. I've actually gotten kind of bored of it. Like I said earlier, I believe it has its uses. It's got insane (but mostly untapped) marketing potential (everything from corporations to self-promotion) and the celebrities/news personalities/authors/filmmakers etc. using is do give a little bit of insight into their lives that's interesting in a voyeuristic way. But it sort of begins and ends with those two things.

I can see why people like it, but I think it's dangerously close to be overhyped. There are people who are legitimately claiming that it's a new kind of communication that will change the way our world works when the reality is that it's a fairly basic idea that has novelty and newness going for it. If this sort of Twitter madness is still around in two years I'll eat my words, but I just don't see a lot of longevity for Twitter in terms of the mass audience. The vast majority of accounts are average people with a handful of followers. I can't imagine they'll still be all that excited about it not too long from now.

Personally, I love the fact that it doesn't have all those other features; the beauty is in the simplicity.

It's the world's largest message board, but then also it's the ultimate in minimalism for a writer. Can you convey in 140? Yes, yes you can

This. My favorite thing about twitter is reworking a message to fit into the character limit. Going back over a few sentences to trim fat, reword, and tighten is a wonderful little writing challenge*.

I can't say how many times I've dived deep into my vocabulary to shorten a sentence or phrase, just so I can keep a superfluous "fuck" in a tweet.

Actually, I think that right there is worth tweeting.

At the end of the month I'm giving a presentation on social networking/media with a big focus on Twitter. I'll make sure to dump the results of my research in here.

*For fucking nerds, of course

Fuck Double Post

Does that sort of thing have longevity, though? It's a fun game now, but the novelty of trying to condense your thoughts into 140 characters is sure to wear thin after a while.

Where some see a challenge, I see an excuse for more soundbyte culture. Just isn't my thing.

No one's asking you to join. Will it fade? Of course.

The challenge I speak of is only a periphery element that I happen to enjoy.

The true usefulness of Twitter (at least, as it exists now- this will change) is based in it's uniquely informal but personal communication, novelty, forced conciseness, and it's dynamic nature.

Facebook and Twitter should exist as a completely separate tools with separate intentions, though the powers that be over at FB seem to have failed to realize this...

At it's best, Twitter is like a curated RSS feed. By following people who are active in their respective fields and scenes, you get a real-time update on a great deal of interesting shit.

I don't understand how anyone can look at Twitter and see only narcissism, whether it's someone here, or the staff of Gawker/Defamer.

I use it hardly never, but I'm there. Username: bistrowen

I get more from it than I give to it - I'm greedy like that.

Now that it's necessary for work I downloaded the app for my iPhone and it's not that bad. It's easier than texting all day. My username is _matches if anyone would be interested for any reason. Most of the stuff on there will probably be comic book related.

Re-posting since I don't have many followers and usually feel like i'm talking to nobody-

MikeRabattino

Mine is in the signature...

Kevin Spacey's answering questions on Twitter right now-ish: http://www.twitter.com/KevinSpacey

Google is trying to buy it...

I've got a bunch of friends who refuse to use it because they don't want to have to try and condense messages into 144 characters, yet they all sms all day every day. Can't understand that.
MattOCallaghan is me.

My membership may be short-lived, we'll see. Boredom does terrible things to people.

Follow? Why not?

Martianman68, if anyone is interested in my quasi-boring, egotistical ponderings.

SteveMoonRocket

I synched my blog up with twitter.


intheneaux



I have like 2 followers and I think one of those is spam!

Most likely, I'm afraid.

From my experience, the only types of people I've had follow me besides friends were either shills for porn sites or ad companies. When I checked my email two weeks ago I had 18 notifications saying that I had new followers. All of them were ad company shills.

If you're not following ebertchicago, you're missing out.

I'm gonna make a conscious effort to crack more jokes on mine.

Peter Serafinowicz just workshops jokes all day. My feed is like 90% him.

Is @shitmydadsays still amusing, or did it jump the shark? I'd check, but my workplace blocked Twitter.

Uh, oh, Jake-

First shitmydadsays twitter I've heard elsewhere.

Otherwise, I'm still enjoying:

Latest from RealTracyMorgan: "For $15 I'll induce your labor"

God bless you, Tracy Morgan.

The Hot Fuzz guys were writing slash fiction on their feeds.

That's cool.

Fuck your link.