What is Digg?174 Comments
- borez, on 01/02/2009, -18/+193I still don't actually get the point of Twitter. Why would I want to tell anybody, every single detail, of every single thing that I do? It's a little narcissistic really.
- nesagwa, on 01/02/2009, -31/+184#1: Nobody. Microblogging is stupid and you dont use it.
- PhilMoskowitz, on 01/02/2009, -2/+134"poop is coming out"
- smoothmann, on 01/02/2009, -14/+94Tell me why I need to use twitter again?
or why I should give a rats ass what other people are doing this very moment? - LokitheComplex, on 01/02/2009, -7/+85And why would anyone want to read it?
- houndeyex, on 01/02/2009, -6/+72You mean you don't care that I'm eating a baked potato and thinking about watching reruns of Friends? :(
- borez, on 01/02/2009, -6/+54Exactly. Some people really do think that others actually give a ***** about them.
- borez, on 01/02/2009, -4/+50Drinking wine, just typed this message, looking forward to a reply, the cats asleep, just typed that too, there's a lot of weather at the moment, much more weather than this time last year. Gonna take a crap now, back in ten. Pushing the save reply button.
- dystra, on 01/02/2009, -2/+45drinking coffee
- cowbilly, on 01/02/2009, -0/+43Was expecting something funny
- roxics, on 01/02/2009, -1/+37I'm with you there. I just don't get the appeal. It's like taking one feature every other social network already has and blowing it up to be it's own site. How it got so popular I'll never understand.
It's like blogging for people with ADHD - hyAxis, on 01/02/2009, -1/+29"5. Default avatar: means 3 things… spam, n00b, or something else"
O RLY? - davidmcraney, on 01/02/2009, -2/+29Microblogging is awesome...if you use it to share an interesting experience or situation. If you are using it to publicly document every mundane moment in your life, it's annoying.
Twitter has to be used to be appreciated. Used well, among friends, it becomes like ESP. Used poorly, it resembles the worst of MySpace and Facebook and LiveJournal and all the other disposable digital flotsam that gets churned up with social networking. - robfarrell, on 01/02/2009, -1/+24Don't use Twitter to let everyone know what you're doing this exact second. Be interesting and entertaining.
- immatellyouwhat, on 01/02/2009, -2/+24" still coming @Phil hasn't touched the bowl yet"
" Almost"
" Oohh forgot about resetting my gmail account"
" We have a touchdown @Phil " - yosserhughes, on 01/02/2009, -9/+30No, I won't see any of the ten, or anyone else for that matter: I don't Twit.
Twitter is for the lame of heart, the lost and the lonely; it’s for those whose world has condensed to a 2" X 2" piece of shiny plastic into which they gaze forlornly in the hope of seeing something meaningful….which they never will. - meruru, on 01/02/2009, -3/+23Besides we already have livejournal for that
- betheturtle, on 01/02/2009, -0/+18I'm a twitter *****!
- katierosekills, on 01/02/2009, -0/+17You know what? I joined Twitter the other day when I never thought I would.
I use it to mostly follow other people. My updates are really for my own personal entertainment. I like being able to look back and remember things I was doing at that moment or what I was thinking. I could care less if anyone wants to follow that or not. - coldeh, on 01/02/2009, -3/+20"Oh crap we have ran out of things to blog about. Why don't we blog about Twitter again?"
- mw113, on 01/02/2009, -4/+20OH MY Kevin Rose uses it, so we all should.
Too bad that didn't work with Pownce =P - Natnie, on 01/02/2009, -3/+18I like Twitter, but this article was... I don't know, not what I expected, I guess. Why SHOULD I follow these "twiterrati", anyway? People following 20k people? As if they're going to read their feeds.
- Utopian, on 01/02/2009, -1/+16Is there somewhere that explains why Twitter is so great for people that just don't get it?
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -4/+17Gee, ya think?
- hijohnmark, on 01/02/2009, -1/+14I take it you're one of those people who tried it, posted a tweet or two, and then decided it was dumb.
- phenom2k7, on 01/02/2009, -4/+17You go to bars for the beer and ***** my friend. The stories fill out the void that exists between drinking and looking at *****.
- borez, on 01/02/2009, -1/+13Blogging I can understand if you have a really interesting life to tell people of.
Twitter... no. I just don't get it. - kublerross, on 01/02/2009, -1/+13please strike "diggas" from the english language at once.
- Totz83, on 01/02/2009, -0/+11That's open to debate
- HereticKings, on 01/02/2009, -0/+11This article also serves as a pretty decent list of people you will find in real life:
1: People who want to waste your time.
2: People who want to waste your money.
3: People in jail.
4: People who want to someday waste your money, but will be content for now with wasting your time.
5: Babies.
6: People who are more popular than you.
7: People who are almost imaginary.
8: People who are almost truthful.
9: People who are actually imaginary.
10: You and all the rest of the people in the world, who always have and always will pay more attention to the other nine groups than to each other. - phenom2k7, on 01/02/2009, -0/+11Same here. I just don't get it. I also don't understand how something like this is financially sustainable. All that spam has to be eating up a lot resources.
Tweet - " I'm going to release a small man made avalanche into the nearest evacuation hole. " - whoreable, on 01/02/2009, -0/+11http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
- taterpeel, on 01/02/2009, -3/+13Ah, the irony. All these people expressing superiority over twitter users...in...um...digg comments. Many of them are less than 140 character comments, btw.
- troymccluresf, on 01/02/2009, -6/+16I still don't actually get why people decide that [application/website] is for [blank] and criticize it based on that. Who the ***** says you "want to tell anybody, every single detail, of every single thing that I do"?
I could have thought "Digg is just a bunch of Apple posts and bad HDR photos, I don't see why anyone would use it," but then I actually looked and thought and realized that first impressions and clueless mass-media articles (especially regarding the internet) are not good cites.
Twitter bashing was cool for a while, but the bigger it gets, the more they sound like people who refuse to get a cell phone because "I don't want people calling me every second of every day." - duckyinc, on 01/02/2009, -5/+15#10 should be renamed to "fools who post their activities on the internet"
- mattmcegg, on 01/02/2009, -5/+14same reason you go to a bar and tell stories with your friends. Its fun, entertaining, and better than watching reruns of Law and Order.
- kublerross, on 01/02/2009, -1/+10NO! Real friends hang out irl
- dylanmcdonald, on 01/02/2009, -0/+9This is the most sensible comment on this thread my friend.
- kgool, on 01/02/2009, -1/+10Nothing is better than reruns of Law and Order.
- danielsamuels, on 01/02/2009, -0/+9@borez: 116 characters too many.
- smoothmann, on 01/02/2009, -2/+10omg rly?
- AmazingSteve, on 01/02/2009, -0/+8I know. I love it when self-absorbed bloggers write these how to's. Internet popularity is like masturbation, sure it gets you off but the whole thing is hollow at it's core.
- mattmcegg, on 01/02/2009, -2/+10people that are saying twitter is a waste of time is like saying playing video games is a waste of time. Yes, it might but. but you know you're not doing anything better, and OMG someone might have something INTERESTING to say that you would ENJOY!!!!! its called socializing.
- Chooxo, on 01/02/2009, -0/+81. People you actually know
End. - msmayhew, on 01/02/2009, -0/+7I don't get all this twitter bashing when the man you all idolize is the 2nd most popular twitter user. http://twitterholic.com/
- had3l, on 01/02/2009, -1/+8I love to use Twitter to let everyone know exactly what I'm doing at every moment.
But for some reason all my entries are the same: "typing". - hijohnmark, on 01/02/2009, -0/+6Honestly, you just have to use it and connect with people to "get it". I was a skeptic until I really gave it a try.
- inactive, on 01/02/2009, -1/+7this immature comment has me holding back intense laughter
- rowjimmy, on 01/02/2009, -4/+10hint - going outside, walking your dog, and meeting new people is called socializing. twitter is called narcissistic masturbation.
- PGPirate, on 01/02/2009, -9/+15Twitter = people who are insecure and want to feel wanted.
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