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- netneutrality, on 06/07/2009, -1/+141That is completely normal.
Hi, thousands of Digg users who just read articles and don't log in! *waves* - TDDebug, on 06/06/2009, -12/+91I enjoyed the article at first because it helped strengthen the concept of Twitter sucking... until it got way too detailed and I realized I don't care.
- CaptainPanda, on 06/07/2009, -1/+72This really isn't surprising. The 80-20 rule http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle basically says that a small amount of a group will provide most of the results. If this happens on Twitter, that simply means that Twitter is normal.
- Laughto, on 06/07/2009, -3/+57"Sheep" is a douchey way to characterise the data. Really, it just goes to show that people are using it as a kind of RSS feed.
- Mank44, on 06/07/2009, -1/+53Logged in just to wave back *waves*
- HyphySoul, on 06/07/2009, -4/+49Buried for inaccuracy and misleading thumbnail, article mentioned nothing about actual sheep using twitter which is why I read the article.
- treas, on 06/07/2009, -2/+46I was hoping this would be an article about a miracle device allowing sheep to use twitter.
:/ - Topher06, on 06/07/2009, -10/+37Its because the service is overrated. Its not a social network, its an ego network. I don't know how many celebrities are going on about Twitter these days, but when a "celebrity" starts ranking themseves acording to how many followers they have that is when a social network dies. Most people on Twitter are not celebrities, so that is why most people don't care what 80% of Twitter users are doing.
- ViralCoreX7F, on 06/07/2009, -2/+27I'm constantly logged in an just digg or bury stuff. I tend not to comment because I don't have anything good to say.
- inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+18This is what they want you to say
- rdldr1, on 06/07/2009, -2/+20Don't knock sheep! They make our wool.
- innocentsinner, on 06/07/2009, -8/+22Oh, the irony. Seriously, calling people sheep on Digg of all places? Ron Paul? 6-month old memes?
- Tkuebrich, on 06/07/2009, -1/+15That's why I don't have an account, because no one gives a ***** about what I am doing.
- spiffyXD, on 06/07/2009, -3/+15I see Twitter as primarily a microblogging service. As in, you don't HAVE to aim for thousands of followers. What if you just want a place to post some quick thoughts on, you know?
EDIT: And like what Laughto just said before me, it's a really easy way to subscribe to websites and content, à la RSS. - Linake, on 06/07/2009, -0/+10Never being to the website makes you the #1 source when it comes to reviewing the website!
- dazparkour, on 06/07/2009, -0/+9Dugg for consistency.
- lundeja, on 06/07/2009, -1/+10I just made myself look like a tool.
- hivoltage815, on 06/07/2009, -1/+999% of the people have nothing interesting to say. The 80-20 rule tells us that 19% of users are polluting the system with garbage...welcome to the internet.
- Altanar, on 06/07/2009, -0/+7LOL! A post hating on sheep, on a website that runs the popularity opinion of the group. Digg, where many of the users are friend whores, befriending anyone that comes along just to promote their own stories.
I seriously don't see the point of having thousands of followers on Twitter if you have nothing to say. Just like I will not follow someone unless they consistently have something interesting posted. Or if I know them personally.
Same goes for my usage of Digg. I will not add anyone to my friends list that I don't know personally. Sorry. I came to read interesting articles, not be a part of a mutual admiration society. - krokodil, on 06/07/2009, -1/+8Users who have 10 followers are more likely to read their friends updates when users with 1000+. These are normal users, who really use twitter to communicate with their peers, opposed to 1000+-follower users who just go after numbers, building popularity in hope people will follow them back.
- flarn2006, on 06/07/2009, -0/+7That's nothing. Birds are always tweeting!
- Grogtron, on 06/07/2009, -1/+8Actually, if you eliminate the marketeers, SOE specialists, the fewer than 10 followers crowd. You have the 5 9's rule 99.999% of the people aren't even people using twitter...
Actually having less than 10 followers is remarkable since the groups above make up all 124 of the followers I have on my long abandoned account. - gmiley, on 06/07/2009, -1/+8You sir, are an Internet Superstar.
- quomen, on 06/07/2009, -0/+7Nice. Smart guys on Digg.
- purseonality, on 06/07/2009, -1/+7Even though most of my followers are spammers, every time one stops following, a little part of me dies inside.
- Archaic1, on 06/07/2009, -1/+7You realise how moronic that sounds, right?
- iniqui7y, on 06/07/2009, -1/+7that comment is flawless. keep up the good work ;)
- vbullinger, on 06/07/2009, -0/+5Dugg for honesty.
- gfxlonghorn, on 06/07/2009, -0/+5So instead of following a narcissistic douche bag, you are one yourself. What a great alternative! Honestly, nobody cares.
- MScrip, on 06/07/2009, -0/+5I tried to "use" Twitter... but since I only have a handful of real friends on Twitter... it doesn't do me much good to post anything to Twitter. I do, however, follow tech bloggers and other news sources on Twitter. Twitter, for me, is basically a newsletter subscription to various outside sources on the Internet.
For personal stuff, all my friends are already on Facebook, so that's where I interact with my friends. - Linake, on 06/07/2009, -0/+5...it was the article itself that called them sheep, not Digg.
Even still, I agree. The entire Internet is full of "sheep". It's normal. - Rain12913, on 06/07/2009, -1/+5*I'm waiting for the year 3000, when Youtube, Twitter, and Facebook merge into YouTwitFace.
- Bullislander05, on 06/07/2009, -0/+4I think really the article is attacking the wrong point. It's not that people are simply following and not tweeting, but the fact that many accounts had 0-10 tweets could imply that many people simply try the service, decide they don't want to use it, and stop using it. The article would have more significant results about people who actually use twitter if it focused on the active ones. i.e. the ones who either tweet once a week or so or check their timeline once a week or so.
- gmiley, on 06/07/2009, -0/+4That's basically all I use my account for. I'm following a few news sites and a couple of my friends, and I don't really care one way or the other if anyone is following me. I have actually blocked several people that I have no idea who they are or why they would have any earthly reason to follow me in the first place.
- itsaplayonwords, on 06/07/2009, -4/+8I think this can apply to nearly all websites.. I know several people with multiple Facebook accounts with no picture or friends because they forgot their password. Or imagine the number of MySpace accounts that are inactive? This hating on Twitter since it is just a 'trend' is, in itself, becoming a trend. If you do not like it, do not use it. If you do, follow me @dylanmaustin! LOL.
- DarkBlueAnt, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3It's also incorrect in this case. The "Sheep" on Twitter, who have no followers but follow tons of people, are not the "sheeple" that ***** love to reference.
What's really going on is that thousands upon thousands of small businesses go on there and follow as many people as possible in order to get people to pay attention to their marketing and follow them back. Most of those accounts are not legitimate users. - Balath, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3I signed up for twitter to look around. I never posted and don't think it's going anywhere that will be of any benefit to me, ever. It'd just be one more website to check. The only time I bother logging in is to watch the feed when I'm interested in some high profile news event.
- kaosethema, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3u don't say
- Linake, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3FTA: "The fact that an estimated 32 million people around the world visited Twitter.com alone in April certainly indicates that there is something going on there. It just may be that Twitter really isn’t as much about two-way micro-conversations as it is about one-way micro-broadcasting."
April was the month when Twitter was talked about by both Ellen and Oprah on their shows. It was also the month Ashton Kutcher and CNN raced to 1,000,000 followers. A lot of the "followed by less than 10, following less than 10, less than 10 Tweets" are fans of theirs who wouldn't even know what Twitter was, otherwise. They went on there just to follow the one person who told them about the service (and maybe a few others) and nothing else.
Which is fine. I guess that does sort of make them sheep, but the Internet is full of sheep. These results could be used to describe any social website. - Yaanu, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3I just use Twitter as an archive and a service: As a service, I use Twitter as the middle-man for my Facebook status updates. As an archive, I use it in case I ever get famous, and some tabloid wants to dig up some dirt about me.
A win-win scenario! - geoboy, on 06/07/2009, -0/+3Baaaaaah humbug.
- lundeja, on 06/07/2009, -5/+8I have 672 followers but at least half are spam/bots.
- peterinjapan, on 06/07/2009, -1/+3Ah, Twitter envy, I must be on Digg. I use both and enjoy both. Twitter lets me hook up with 2500+ of J-List readers/customers, make observations to them on what I'm doing in Japan and get feedback from them directly. I mean, I can ask a question and get an immediate answer from people who are passionate about Japan. It's a fantastic tool, even if 80% of users aren't as active as the top posters.
- Amadeus2490, on 06/07/2009, -2/+4I'm waiting for the year 3000, when Youtube and Twitter merge into YouTwit.
- staticfire, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2I lurked digg for a long time before I actually joined, and then even longer before I actually started commenting regularly.
- gfxlonghorn, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2One of these days I need to get drunk, get on facebook, and finally rid of myself of these people I don't care about.
- brundlefly76, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2This is no different form the tiny fraction of blogs which are actually maintained (likely less than 1%), or the tiny fraction of wikipedia users who actually contribute content (1-3%).
- dazparkour, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2Couldn't come up with a pun?
- drex8, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2I don't understand Twitter at all. I may be dumb in that respect. It's hard to figure who's replying to whom and in which/what context. It's hard to get a whole picture.
And I don't feel comfortable clicking bit.ly and tinyurl links from random strangers, when I don't know what's behind those links. I know it's probably possible to find out the original links behind those bit.ly's, but ***** that's too much hassle.
In this respect I like the new 'Preview' tinyurls of TinyUrl, where you can preview before moving forward. - inactive, on 06/07/2009, -0/+2Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
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