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- daRoach, on 10/12/2007, -8/+85What's twitter?
- fatadamblog, on 10/12/2007, -7/+50I already think twitter is a waste of time.
And from words of Leo Laporte "Twitter is for very lonely people" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+38Im on Digg.com right now reading this article on how Twitter will die this year
- unknamed, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Seriously, who has so much spare time that they can sit around and read what their "friends" are doing at the moment... suddenly it occurs to me why it will ultimately fail: circular reference.
Everybody will be so busy reading what everyone else is doing that they won't have time to do anything but read what everyone else is doing and then the only thing anyone will be doing is writing about how they are reading about what everyone else is doing and then people will be reading about how other people are reading about other people and other people and other people and ....other....peop.... *EXPLODES - rm999, on 10/12/2007, -9/+37Seriously - I read the article for a while, and then closed it and marked this article as lame.
Journalism 101: The reader should understand what the article is about within the first 2 sentences. He should understand the topic at a basic level within the first two paragraphs. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+27I never heard of twitter either.
- rofflcopterr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+23and because facebook has it built in?
- smellycat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+23Why is twitter even alive in the first place?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Because it's Skynet in disguise.
- grubwort, on 10/12/2007, -4/+16I looked it up.
Now, what is it? - rodrigo74, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14I guess Leo considers himself like so, since he always mentions he's a big twitter user.
I do agree with the article though, I think twitter is a fad. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I think Twitter is dangerous...mainly because its users are willingly embracing the Big Brother 24/7 surveillance lifestyle. I don't want everyone knowing what I'm doing "right now" just like I don't want CCTV cameras on every fracking street corner. It sets a dangerous precedent...especially if you actually care about something like...I dunno...privacy.
- szembek, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13No, seriously... what the ***** is twitter!?
- morphie, on 10/12/2007, -6/+14Twitter will be dead in 2007, 2007 will be the year of the linux desktop, Zune is the iPod killer in 2007, iPhone is going to rumble the phone market in 2007.... blah blah blah
It amazes me how many people out there have this glass ball in which they can see the future... - sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10Twitter is one of those things you think is flamingly retarded until you actually start to use it. Once you do, it starts to grow on you. It's a fun little distraction that takes about a minute of your time every hour or so.
- grubwort, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10I am being given candy by Mr Johnson he is going to show me his puppy
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Mr Johnson's puppy has no fur or eyes and lives in his pants. I stroked it but it was sick on me. - Shenaniganz08, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7give me facebook stalker tools or give me death !
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I dugg this article despite not having a very clear of what twitter is, last time it was on the front page I signed up and read the site and I still don't know what it does. I've set what i'm doing (set my status to setting my twitter status, this could loop!) and can't work out what to do next, does this site offer any functionality?!
- BJanis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The web 2.0 "emperors new clothes." Let's do it, everyone's doing it and talking about it.
uh....
I don't WANT everyone to know what I'm doing. What if you're private? I'm looking for an app that reads the minds of all people I know, and when they want to contact me while I'm busy they receive a message not to. - Yorn, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It's really sad everyone in the 15-25 year old generation is perfectly fine with their privacy gone. I got news for you, you're more likely to be convicted of a crime because you post evidence of underage drinking online than you are becoming famous for it. I know everyone in your generation is so absolutely obessed with "becoming famous" that they actually answer "famous" when asked what they want to be when they grow up, but you needn't act like you are a celebrity now. Trust me, the only people that care about what you're doing at any given point in time are not your friends, it's your parents and authorities.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5MySpace? Facebook?
- mindcrime, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Was it ever "alive" in the first place? And will anybody miss it when it "dies?" I think not...
- armbar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4It's on a different level, but Thomas Paine's writings effectively had the same purpose: to help the common people learn that certain things were stupid and they should think for themselves.
I have absolutely no problem with people pointing out the stupidity and inanity of many things in the world, Twitter included. - armbar, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7People use MSN Messenger?
- Culled, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@rm999
To a certain extent I agree but then again this wasn't a newspaper article it was some random guy's blog, presumably it was written for people who read his blog regularly and have already heard him bitch about Twitter. If he'd known that this was going to be on digg I'll agree that he definitely should have posted some sort of explanation. - Baku, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8http://www.twitter.com
Update it with IM, your phone or on the web... and it displays on your blog/website what you send to it. - betobeto, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is actually strike two for the guys behind it (they are the same people behind ill-fated Odeo.com), and one of them is a former Google employee. Leaves you thinking...
- hedgeland, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Well Twitter could be an extreme waste of time, but there are some very funny twitter-ers posing as famous people or characters. The George W Bush one is particularly funny:
http://twitter.com/thepresident
Hilarious. I can just picture W twittering all day long (honestly, what else would he be doing?). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hadn't even heard of twitter until now. Does that make me cool or uncool?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5twitter is the worst out of all the "web 2.0" start ups. i hope there bussiness model is not riding on them getting bought up
- nixm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I could really see myself getting tired of twitter...
- raccettura, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I really don't understand what the hype is about. I can't see it succeeding.
Here's how I personally see it:
If it succeeded (fat chance) it's a stalker/child molesters dream come true. And would be sued out of existence. Think myspace X 1000. - michellemarion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i've been a 'registered user' for like four months and i have only posted maybe 10 times. i keep thinking i'm missing something because who the hell cares if i'm watching seinfeld? and if i'm 'twittering' i am not watching seinfeld. i feel comfort after reading the blog entry though, cause it seems i am not missing anything - it is what it is - what the hell is it?
- sparkrainfir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3thank you -- i've been trying to figure this twitter thing out for awhile. i don't know why a lot of the big podcasters are talking this thing up. it's the worst idea i've ever seen.
- sleepwalkers, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@texpundit: How does voluntarily signing up for a service and choosing what you put out into the open classify as Big Brother-esque "surveillance"? Come on, man. Seriously. You don't have to do this, you don't have to pay attention to it, and in no way is something like this (that more than likely WILL flame out before the end of '07) setting a "precident".
Also, for people who are saying it's a "waste of time", there are little applets on both OS X and Windows that will pop up for 30 seconds (or so) when one of your friends updates, let's you read it, then disappear, and will also let you update right from these applets... Last time I checked, reading and/or writing a sentence or two isn't really considered "wasting time". - darkspire, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Some of us don't need third party apps to do this. I can text "groups" of people from my phone and have multiple text messages sent out to all of my friends. This counts as one sms on my plan. Alternatively I can send an email to my friends various email to sms gateways (usually phonenumber@company.com) and send them all text messages for free. There are a half a dozen other ways I can text people in groups or at no cost, and if that's the only reason to use twitter, then it will be dead before the end of the year.
- grayapple, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3If I have 5 people who I know in real life on my twitter buddy list (or what ever it may be called) and I need to contact them all though SMS (If they all have their phones set up with their account), I can text the twittter phone number which inturn will text all my friends (for free I might add).
I don't think it's a 'fad' - it's a handy little tool that saves people a few quid. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This was done like so many years ago. Back when Bonzi buddy first came out I tried some spyware ridden app that does the same thing that twitter does. I think that password saving gator application also did this.
- insovietrussia, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Listening to Evan Williams (Twitter founder) on net@nite last week he comes across as a fairly decent guy, but he seems a bit washed up after moving on from Blogger. Opodeo wasn't exactly a great success - out of touch with the podcasting scene perhaps - and Twitter seems like more of a passing fad.
The big problem with Twitter is that basically no one cares what the hell you are doing. Most people think that they're interesting enough that people will want to know, but the simple fact is unless you're remotely famous people couldn't care less that you're sipping a latte at Starbucks. - TechTraction, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I thought the article was well written and very entertaining (inspired me to blog about it). I heard about Twitter a couple months ago. Checked out the site and quickly concluded: Twitter is IM status message without chat capabilities. No one beyond my immediate family and a few friends really care to know what I'm doing. Even those people don't want to know every detail of every waking moment. Good grief.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Well, you are talking about a group of people where a person can be famous just for being a famously drunk whore. No talent required, just money, low education, and an eating disorder or two.
- chozsun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3I signed up for a Twitter account about a month ago. When I was reading this digg and the article, I was thinking, "What in the ***** is Twitter?" That is how useless Twitter is to me. I signed up at the insistence of Scott Kurtz (of PvPOnline.com), looked around and thought, "meh".
- domokunt, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4twitter is dead
- byronm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Honestly, i never even heard of Twitter until now. So what is there to implode on?
- SuperRoach, on 04/04/2008, -0/+1A lot of the earlier posts failed to see its usefulness as a versatile, powerful link from real life to online prescence. I doubt it'll "die", but it will be useful to those that jump in to it. The main point is, you don't follow people or get updates about people who post about having eggs this morning. You follow interesting topics. Its like how podcasting took off.
- mredamon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Flukier, here is a realtime feed of twittering. http://twittermap.com/twittervision.
Personally I think this service has potential, if people think about what they say before they say it. Some twitters are putting thoughts or musings out there that are actually quite interesting.
But this is basically shorthand blogging, and you have complete control over who can read your comments and whose comments you read. It won't die anytime soon. - flukierdonut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just love how I get dugg down for asking a question...classic digg community..thanks for the answer mredamon
- rorowe, on 03/22/2008, -0/+1Twitter.com = microblogging. The value in it comes not from the service itself, but the network of people you follow. I, for example, follow many educators, technology theorists, and musicians, as well as friends that exist both in the "real world" and various other "social networks". Predicting Twitter's death is as silly as predicting the death of MySpace, Facebook, or any of the hundreds of networking services out there. In my opinion, if you hate it, ignore it.
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