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- dist0rtedwave, on 12/03/2008, -1/+20Ill save you the trouble... by every day uses all they mean is you can tweet about every freaking thing that happens, or even that you want to happen in your life. The important part is that you think other people care.
- Mudcrutch, on 12/03/2008, -3/+18Never have seen the point of twitter. Definitely something I can live without.
- bonk2k, on 12/03/2008, -0/+11This list is completely pointless. It's not 101 things you can do with twitter, it's 101 things that you can tweet about, which is completely pointless because if there's a word for it you can write about it. And it's not like it's pointing you to twitter users that tweet about these things regularly, it's just random people.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+9What's with all the Twitter hate? Some people can make use of it. Some don't.
Personally, I use it because it has the one aspect of most social networking sites that I need, which is finding out what my friends are up to. I don't need to see picture of them, or a ***** layout, or hear some ***** song they like. I don't need to find out every single person they've befriended in their life. For me, there's a lot of useless junk on other social networking sites.
Twitter: Oh, you're going to the bar in an hour? Cool, I'll catch up with you.
MySpace: AUGH ***** THIS MUSIC AH ***** WHERE'S THE VOLUME I CAN'T FIND THE ***** VOLUME THEY MADE EVERY IMAGE ON HERE TRANSPARENT OH WHAT THE ***** THE CODE'S BROKEN THERE'S AN IMAGE ON TOP OF THE VOLUME CONTROL AGH ALL I WANTED TO DO WAS SEE THOSE NEW PICTURES AAAAAGHUWAHG
Facebook: Poke, poke, poke, friend became friends with somebody, poke, friend added pictures, poke, superpoke... - RMoore08, on 12/03/2008, -2/+9Not really, this is just a joke.
- StigNordas, on 12/02/2008, -3/+10There should be a new rule: If your freakin' platform is going to have its own language, you must guarantee that it will be around for at least 10 years. Twitter: please start making money!
- dpace32, on 12/03/2008, -1/+7they forgot a fun toy: http://twitter.com/rfacts a way to get daily random facts!
- Mizzike, on 12/03/2008, -1/+6Sure, my family actually uses it to stay in touch between phone calls, video conferencing, IMs and emails. We use it the way it was intended to be used: to answer the question "what are you doing?" believe it or not, family actually cares.
To answer the headline, here are some real uses for twitter:
emergency alerts. like when the San Diego wildfires had people evacuating from their homes. KPBS (kpbsnews) sent minute-by-minute updates of the fire's status, safe places to go, etc. this was useful for me because my mom lived in a city that had not been hit by the fire and i was receiving live updates on my phone as the fire drew closer to her home. i received these updates while in the middle of class at school, and so many people were tying up cell phone towers that twitter served as a good way to stay in touch, both with the fire and with her.
personal journal/diary/alabi. say you need to go back and ask the question, "how long ago did i buy that thingamajigger?" if you posted a tweet like "at IKEA looking for a thingamajigger" you might have your answer.
promotional platform. look at what jason calacanis is doing for mahalo. he's promoting the ***** out of that thing and guess what--i actually use it now more than i have in the past. same thing with @garyvee. the guy promoted his book like a whore and guess what--people found out about it and bought it. he also promotes his Wine Library store on there, as well as his new ventures like PleaseDress.Me and other secret projects he's working on. twitter is huge as a means of getting the word out there about your product or service. i promote @OlisProducts on there whenever we have something to report.
sounding board. ask questions and get answers from people. just the other day @jasoncalacanis asked a question to all his followers about something he was unfamiliar with and got bombarded with responses. he bounces ideas off his followers all the time, and so do others. it's a great way to get answers, provided you have the followers.
news gathering. follow subjects you care about, like @woot, @digg, @revision3, @twitlive, etc. even cnn and others are on there.
the possibilities are endless.
i will say this though, i have no idea why people besides my friends and family follow me. maybe i have the same interests as they do or i'm in the same city or something else, but i don't tweet for them--i tweet for friends and family...and for all the other reasons i mentioned above.
sorry for such a long reply. not sure why i'm so committed to this reply. guess i just love the digg and twitter communities. - topgigmedia, on 12/03/2008, -0/+5twitter = narcissism
- dfsjdkflasjk, on 12/03/2008, -1/+5Make money? Screw that, that's hard. I'd rather just burn other people's money until a giant corporation buys us up and barely makes their purchase price back from the acquisition.
And that, my friends, is the downfall of "Web 2.0" thinking. - bendbreak, on 12/03/2008, -0/+4I am very annoyed that Twitter is no longer sending SMS updates to Canada due to the greed of Canadian cellphone companies.
- olddirtycr, on 12/03/2008, -1/+4I read the article and moaned... thinking to myself "Am I the only one who doesn't understand wtf the point of twitter is...", and then a smile comes accross my face as I read all the digg comments. It seems I'm not alone :]. I'm glad there is some sanity left in the world.
- realchemist, on 12/03/2008, -0/+3101 pointless @replies. WTF?
- Mizzike, on 12/04/2008, -0/+2@talonh cool, thanks for the kudos! :-) I like to discuss things and give helpful advice where I can. I agree, laying off people is never a "good" sign, though it may be a smart "preventative maintenance" move on Jason's part, given the times, to keep the 4-year cash runway they need to build out to 10 million uniques per whatever (their target, before they start introducing ads).
@RonnyN fair enough; respect. When I say family, it's really just my mom and my fiance who are interested in what I do. I probably should have stated that earlier. It's not like I have 63 relatives who are dying to know what I'm up to. We're a pretty small clique. - talonh, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2@Mizzike As for Mahalo, laying off a good size portion of your workforce isn't generally considered a good sign. I wasn't to fond of his early methods of promoting Mahalo and admit that it colored my regard for it.
On the other hand I give you kudo's for carrying on a civil discourse and providing useful commentary. It's not found often here, so I wanted to take the time to say thanks. - akchrs, on 12/03/2008, -3/+5not really.
- RonnyN, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2Every member of your family really has the need to tell every other member of your family what is it that he/she is doing EVERY SINGLE MOMENT???
Is it that important?
I never saw a use for twitter. I still don't.
Why would anyone care what I'm doing "right now"??? - Mizzike, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2@talonh I read the two articles you posted, but I wouldn't conclude that Mahalo's failing, based on what I read. Nevertheless, he used Twitter to promote Mahalo, and it's working. I can't say that I go there to search for stuff--I always use google--but if a page comes up in my search results for Mahalo, I now know what to expect when I visit the page. It's actually pretty useful, but it'll never de-throne google and was never intended to de-throne google. I think it serves as a great compliment to google, actually, but that's off topic.
- fknrat, on 12/03/2008, -1/+3the facebook status update works fine for me
- jeffko387, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2#14 is great. "This account is currently suspended and is being investigated due to strange activity."
- mugicha, on 12/03/2008, -2/+4I still don't get it. I'm not hating, I just really don't understand how you would even use this.
- inactive, on 12/03/2008, -0/+2Well nice long REPLY.
- chudgoo, on 12/03/2008, -1/+3101 reasons Twitter is still lame.
Seriously, those comments were nowhere near as hip or clever as the writer thought.
unless it truly was a joke. if so, haha. that is all. - rheaume, on 12/03/2008, -2/+4#1 - #101 - Stupid *****
- keatonkeaton998, on 12/03/2008, -1/+2These aren't uses, as much as they are 101 short descriptions for 101 randomly chosen twitter posts. Twitter still seems pretty useless.
- undergrace, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1This is one I suspect some Diggers might care about:
18. Pet love. @kevinrose cats love to jump directly onto my stomach when I'm not looking, they think it hurts me, but it only makes me tougher.
Kevin Rose + Cats = Digg nergasm - AbsurdWreckage, on 12/03/2008, -1/+2Terrorism...
...apparently. - active1x0, on 12/03/2008, -1/+2These aren't "uses" for it, they're just topics about which people "tweet". If you are really expecting to find a job by posting to your Twitter account, maybe you deserve to be unemployed. Twitter is still utterly and completely useless.
- Mizzike, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1@RonnyN it's not that they have the NEED to know, it's that they are INTERESTED. I don't know what kind of family you come from--maybe you guys don't like talking to each other all that much, and that's okay--but ours likes staying in touch and twitter makes it convenient for us to keep up with each other's lives in a different way than before.
- jazino, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1That list is retarded, most of the items are so similar and not really useful in the first place.
- kaminariko, on 12/03/2008, -1/+2Maybe I'm missing something about the Twitter phenomenon, but it honestly reminds me of a million people individually announcing to the world that they've just farted.
- Woodyswag, on 03/10/2009, -0/+1Love Twitter!
http://twitter.com/InetFlea - CrushThemTorg, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1TWITTER IS THE INTERNET WITH THE WIN TURNED TO 11! IT WILL IMPREGNATE YOUR SISTER.
- sikosmurf, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1TwitterSync app on facebook can sync your twitter updates with your facebook status.
- RonnyN, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1@Mizzike,
Since you asked, I come from a family that's interested in me very much, and we talk to each other to a degree that I see as normal, but not to a degree that they need to know every time I fart or pop a pimple.
Seems like your family is very interested in everything you do, since you're so eager to update them on every single thing you do... (not that there's anything wrong with it) - RonnyN, on 12/04/2008, -0/+1@mizzike,
Now that makes more sense.
Just wait until you're married. It'll all stop. - gfox, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1I dunno, if you have a blog and use twitter to give really short updates in the sidebar it seems useful.
- thebullisred, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1really like these two.
78- Keg beer. @dianabarden 7 yr old neighbor pourin a beer from the keg. says its for his mom.
79-Case of beer. @debono I'm starting a beer company named Dilla. Then people can go to the market and grab a case a Dilla - talonh, on 12/03/2008, -1/+2Calcanis is promoting so hard because Mahalo is failing. http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/10/jason-calacani ...
He has though promoted a great deal for Mahalo including spamming the crap out of digg when he first started and of course he also resorted to good old fashion spam http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/jason-calac ... - jcwuerfl, on 12/03/2008, -1/+1I twittered this article, new use of twitter apparently.
- ryanhayn, on 12/03/2008, -1/+1I DO NOT CARE ABOUT YOUR TWEET.
- susanjane82, on 12/03/2008, -0/+0twitter is good at a certain level... it gets too much when you tweet you're going to take a shower or something.
- locojones, on 12/03/2008, -2/+2#102 - Annoying everyone in existence with what you think are pithy (but what everyone else thinks are inflated and narcissistic) observations about your mundane existence, and actually believing that anyone gives a damn. And no, you're not creative or original merely because you can distill the triteness of your life down to 140 characters.
- masterjeff3, on 12/03/2008, -1/+1I just feel that Twitter does not have enough substance to its site. For instance, Facebook status updates are just one component of Facebook and are the only thing that Twitter consists of. Facebook is growing to become one of the largest social networking sites in the world, with its only real competition in MySpace. Maybe if Twitter adds more substance to its site, it will begin to flourish and compete with the powerhouses of Facebook and MySpace.
- nicc, on 12/03/2008, -1/+1@asdfasfasfd
then why not just send a txt, email, or you know, actually call them?! - MenoUnderwater, on 12/03/2008, -2/+2"TWITTER UGH DIE ME HATE TWITTER ME HIT WITH COMMENT"
Honestly, it's not a horrible horrible thing.
Kind'va boring article though... -
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