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- darkchild82, on 05/21/2008, -11/+80Am I the only one on Digg who still doesn't have Twitter account?
- natertots, on 05/21/2008, -3/+62i thought i was the only one
- scoreboard27, on 05/21/2008, -6/+36Twitter = biggest timesuck ever but there ARE people who find utility and productivity in it.
- inactive, on 05/21/2008, -7/+34"Am I the only one on Digg who still doesn't have Twitter account?"
No, there are two of us, actually. It takes an IQ of at least 50 in order to dismiss Twitter as, well, twitter... - Wuss, on 05/21/2008, -10/+36I recently got at a twitter account, mostly just to confirm my suspicions on how pointless it is.
I may be cocky sometimes, but I'm not going to assume that anyone in this world really gives 2 cents what I'm doing every hour, and quite frankly, I don't care what anyone else is doing.
Spare me the "you don't get it" 's. By my definition, I get it better then those who think they get it. ;P - jasonnazar, on 05/21/2008, -2/+23Use #102 - "test the limit of ruby on rails"
- Stomper622, on 05/21/2008, -1/+21No, you're not.
If anyone can honestly give me a valid reason to "microblog", I will give them a gold star. - MrBelding, on 05/21/2008, -3/+23I have a soc media friend that was floored when I told them I don't have a twitter account. I'm probably the only guy still roaming around with a cell phone that doesn't have internet or bluetooth capability. Of course my car has a broken tape deck with a Lionel Richie cassette looping 'Penny Lover' but thats a different story for a different time.
- cmdrNacho, on 05/21/2008, -4/+24Am i the only one that thinks twitter is completely pointless and useless, and for some reason can't figure out what the big deal about it is. would love to know why real people that use it.. love it
- thebuggalo, on 05/21/2008, -8/+26what's a twitter?
- DCstewieG, on 05/21/2008, -3/+21Hmm. This article further proves to me that Twitter is useless. Am I the only one who just doesn't "get" it? I'm not sure who seems more lame, the people posting on Twitter, or the ones reading it.
- stoperror, on 05/21/2008, -0/+17It is good to know we aren't alone, but that Lionel Richie thing is just creepy.
- StevieJanowski, on 04/02/2009, -8/+25This is awesome. Basically a list of people that will spam you on Twitter, for some reason I still follow Calacanis and Scoble
- natertots, on 05/21/2008, -0/+14i thought you said it was useful
- n8o8, on 05/21/2008, -0/+14Digg = biggest timesuck ever but there ARE people who find utility and productivity in it!
- iamgreg007, on 05/21/2008, -3/+16Not only don't I have a twitter account, I've never even been to the site.
How do you like THEM apples?!
(though, well see how that changes after my POS computer finally loads this article) - Waiting2awake, on 05/21/2008, -6/+19Count us three. I don't see the purpose of it.
- thewordisberry, on 05/21/2008, -4/+16Just getting into Twitter myself. Like any social media it can be useful or a timesuck depending on how you use it. :)
- TalSiach, on 05/21/2008, -2/+14Agreed, Twitter can take a lot of your time but you can get a lots of value out of it! I personally love it!
- decepticrat, on 05/21/2008, -3/+14I use twitter for so many different things beyond just microblogging my bowel movements. I mean their TRACK function alone makes twitter a worthwhile tool for customized paging.
- cyber49, on 05/21/2008, -5/+14I agree that twitter has been a big timesucker for me too, what I've actually found some remarkably useful tidbits there, that have inspired articles I've written myself, and even purchasing of domain names and spawning businesses.
- halleyscomet, on 05/21/2008, -4/+12Sad, pathetic, narcissistic little children desperately seeking ways to stroke their fragile, attention hungry egos?
The derive their personal self worth not from accomplishment, but from high school notions of "popularity"?
It's a way to feed obsessive-compulsive disorder without using up thousands of paper journals and gallons of ink? - tombonneau, on 05/21/2008, -3/+11Sign up for yet another trendy social service that basically acts as the "Status Message" on any IM program?
No thanks. - FredFredrickson, on 05/21/2008, -3/+11My phone's got internet, but I refuse to use it. I'm not paying $50 more for slow-ass cell phone internet, just so I can tell people when I'm taking a dump on Twitter.
- NJPENSO, on 05/21/2008, -4/+12#102:
Pretending people care about what you do every ten minutes.
Get a grip, no one cares what you're doing. This is like myspace bulletins for old men. - yoblin, on 05/21/2008, -0/+8you're the first person that made me understand the useful purpose to twitter....
if a regular text message is unicast, twitter is just unobtrusive multicast - PolarExpress, on 05/21/2008, -3/+10And this is just Twitter 101. There are so many more ways to use Twitter. I've found it useful to find good articles, tell about my bbq, tweet the birth of my son, meet new people, find bloggers to invite to Iceland, exchange water cooler stories, get inside stories, eye witness accounts from natural disasters, learning about what people are eating for breakfast ... you could go on and on.
(ok, I admit, I am a Twittoholic) - borez, on 05/21/2008, -0/+7buredom?
- inactive, on 05/21/2008, -0/+7Special times?
- dimmerswitch, on 05/21/2008, -3/+10An entire beer section - well done my friend, well done.
- dpcamp, on 05/21/2008, -3/+10and quite narcissistic to think they even care
- TeMerc, on 05/21/2008, -1/+8FFS! Twitter, Pownce, Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, LinkedIn, Beebo, Me.dium, ...who the ***** has time for all that stuff? Must be great to be able to sit all day to update all those, I have trouble updating one, let alone all
- msaleem, on 05/21/2008, -9/+15Summize has to be one of my favorite third-party Twitter tools.
- TBagwell, on 05/21/2008, -3/+9psst... I'm about to take a dump
- SkoGoody, on 05/21/2008, -2/+8I don't even know what Twitter is. I'm being 100% serious. From what I've heard and kinda gathered... I don't want to either.
I can't spend the rest of my life coming to this stinking internet every ten minutes to pore over the, excruciating minutia, of every, single, daily event. - ProjectGSX, on 05/21/2008, -1/+7PA summed up my opinion of Twitters value here: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
- ralphthemagi, on 05/21/2008, -0/+6It's not really about what you are doing every hour. That's how they chose to market it originally, but that's not really how it's used.
Twitter is really just a public IM client with a text message gateway.
Look at a lot of people actually use it. It has nothing to do with micro-blogging. It only becomes micro-blogging for those outside of a circle that follow others. - romistrub, on 05/21/2008, -1/+7Me too! Me too!
- RudeTurnip, on 05/21/2008, -0/+6Now that Alex Albrecht announced the winner of his Xbox 360 (and I wasn't the winner), I don't see much need anymore for having my Twitter account.
- andyboyd, on 05/21/2008, -0/+6Or expose it? ;)
- lintmonkey, on 05/21/2008, -0/+5I only twitter with my enemies.
- kamikaze87, on 05/21/2008, -2/+7I'd rather use twatter.
- Drakonik, on 05/21/2008, -0/+5I guess because Twitter is a stand-alone status feature. With Facebook, you need a special app, or you need to log in to the site, to see that statuses of your friends. With twitter, it's just...there.
With that said, though, I have trouble believing that anybody, even people who really like me, would care to read "driving to mall","at mall, buying food","driving home","making poo","eating supper","having sex with neighbor's wife","sleep time, good night" and the like. - halleyscomet, on 05/21/2008, -0/+5Dude! Me too!
- martin77, on 05/21/2008, -1/+6 " learning about what people are eating for breakfast."
....on that note Your Honour regarding the usefulness of Twitter the prosecution hereby rests its case. - mjamil, on 05/21/2008, -0/+4OK, so I'll admit - I don't get it. I signed up for an account (because someone pestered me to do so). Um, so what next? Is the idea that I need to constantly be checking the twitter Web interface to see if any people in my circle have posted a message? I'll try to analogize to improve my understanding... is twitter like creating an irc channel and having all of your friends join it (and maybe everyone can check this irc channel from their mobile devices and what not), and then have everyone post to the irc channel so everyone else can see the message? In other words, is it a invite-only broadcast mechanism?
If it's something else, can someone please explain to me what it is (and try not to be condescending when you do it), and how to use it?
If it is as I imagine, how is this better than, say, facebook to keep in touch with people (I'm not much of a facebook user either; that's probably not a coincidence)? (Or an e-mail list, or an irc channel, or myriad other means of group communication.) Why is twitter suddenly so popular? Is it the ease of usage? Is it some other factor that isn't obvious to me? - Thorpe, on 05/21/2008, -1/+5I only find it useful to find out what new tea Kevin Rose is drinking.
- inactive, on 05/21/2008, -1/+5102. Just lost 2 minutes of my life reading useless article about 101 uses of Twitter
- CodeCobalt, on 05/21/2008, -1/+5got you all beat... I consider myself to have my finger on the pulse for the most part, but i've never even heard of twitter. and I'm perfectly content.
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