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- virtualonliner, on 01/21/2009, -3/+111Twitter = time waster, everywhere.
- Betrayal, on 01/21/2009, -10/+68I absolutely agree! Twitter is *****.
Why do we need to know what everybody is doing every 5 seconds and when everybody is going to the bathroom?
A huge time-waster fueling people's egos and narcissism. - chubbstar, on 01/21/2009, -2/+44you dont have to be european to think twitter is useless.
its just a glorified facebook status. - ZigaReLLa, on 01/19/2009, -2/+37yes it is a waste of time, even this comment :Z
- DorXtar, on 01/21/2009, -4/+29I guess this means I'm European. >_>
- GeneHoglan, on 01/21/2009, -5/+24I don't like it either. Oh, you just had breakfast. Good for you.
Who seriously spends a bunch of time online looking at statuses? If you want to know what people are doing why don't you do the social thing and umm... Call them? Thats worse then Myspace... - Reddog_x2000, on 01/21/2009, -2/+15Twitter is like any communications medium. It can be a valuable tool, both for marketing and personal communications. Or, it can be a distraction from more valuable activities. The key is in using it wisely.
- Paulorific, on 01/21/2009, -1/+12I'm so glad I didn't click to find dozens of comments about how good twitter is. It's retarded.
- mmittimm, on 01/21/2009, -2/+13I'm sure twitter is great and all, I could just never see the point in it. Maybe i'm missing something....
- jtrost, on 01/21/2009, -1/+10If I am using social networks at work, it's not to spread the good word about the company I work for. It's because I'm bored with the company I work for.
- eldinb, on 01/21/2009, -0/+9News about Twitter here on Digg is boring.
- upick, on 01/20/2009, -6/+14Well all social media sites are time wasters unless your marketing and promoting.
- akatsuki, on 01/21/2009, -3/+10Article lost all credibility when they said it was "too complicated". If you think that... well, let's just say if I was your boss, you would be collecting unemployment.
- tolgafiratoglu, on 01/21/2009, -1/+8twitter has nothing to do with innovation...just a simple diary. the simplest possible.
- brianpeiris, on 01/21/2009, -2/+9It's only a time-waster if you want it to be. You don't have to read every single tweet just as you don't have to read every single article submitted to digg.
- jrtcs, on 01/21/2009, -0/+7I had pancakes for breakfast. I thought it was important that you knew that.
- DulcetTone, on 01/21/2009, -0/+7Luckily, no one ever placed a twitter proponent in charge of anything more demanding than an espresso machine
- Kingoftherings, on 01/21/2009, -6/+12I think Twitter is a waste of time as well.
- unmarked, on 01/21/2009, -0/+6Twitter = time waster? Other time wasters: Watching TV, reading digg articles, reading newspapers, reading science fiction novels, going for a walk, laying at the beach, talking around the water cooler, and of course, sleeping -that one wastes so much time.
- macattacks10, on 01/21/2009, -0/+6It means both...
- crosquillas, on 01/21/2009, -3/+8"The other day I was complaining [on Twitter] about the fact that Sprint, my cellphone company, didn't have the new Blackberry. Ten minutes later, Sprint replied. Twitter is like a free focus group; they can monitor what clients are saying in real time."
This is a GOOD thing? - elfuego, on 01/21/2009, -3/+8Here's the thing about twitter: Asking questions of the hivemind (whether for gas or movie reviews) isn't really going to work unless you've got thousands of followers. Unless you're Kevin Rose or Wil Wheaton, you're better off asking a friend or coworker.
There could be practical applications: however, posting things like speed traps requires a specified and agreed-upon hashtag... #speedtrap is the sort of thing that, if everyone tweeted them when they spotted them, and more to the point, tweeted them to a hashtag you knew was specified for that... it would be all good. However, searching #speedtrap doesn't bring up much, and searching "speed trap" brings up a disorganized mess that isn't really going to help you.
The best application for twitter is when there's a lot of people using it, all of whom are focused on getting and sharing information on a particular subject, who quickly collaborate and organize. A great example of this was #darkTO. Here's a story on just that: http://www.we-magazine.net/2009/01/17/darkto/
I suspect monitoring tags during conventions like comic-con or pax, where that pre-determined and somewhat organized framework exists. And as someone who was on #darkTO, when it's working, it's absolutely astonishing how cool it is.
But 99% of the time, it's completely goddamned pointless. - octowussy, on 01/21/2009, -0/+4Why are there fifty posts about Twitter on Digg each day? Are you guys trying to convince yourself that it's useful and not just another vanity site?
- santixx, on 01/21/2009, -0/+4I agree, It's a waste of time.
*Tweets about that thought* - thecliffbar, on 01/21/2009, -0/+3I just want to point out the poster's complete lack of reading comprehension - how does "most European companies haven't even heard of Twitter, and some might think it's a time waster" mean "European companies say the social-networking tool is a time waster"? Paraphrasing the article is one thing, but this takes that to a new level.
- cubicledrone, on 01/21/2009, -1/+4Apparently in Europe mobile phones don't suck. Come to think of it, Europe has pretty decent high speed rail too. We couldn't build high speed rail in this country if we had a snap-together kit and instructions on DVD with block letter subtitles and Patrick Stewart as host.
- lostsymphonies1, on 01/21/2009, -2/+5Personally, I have always thought twitter was a waste of time. I don't need to need to be from Europe to understand that.
- LucasKane, on 01/21/2009, -1/+3I wish my fellow Americans thought the same.
Emergency situations withstanding. - dougs55, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Too bad I could only digg your comment up once. ;)
- Zowned, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2I agree that twit is another word for twerp but its really not another word for *****.
- inactive, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Come back when you can spell, lard-ass.
- willrs, on 01/21/2009, -3/+5twitter is just a social network for insecure people who need to think that people actually care about them.
- Sean23, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Just because some zips are zoops and some zoops are boops, doesn't mean all zips are boops.
- ryan83189, on 01/21/2009, -3/+5Twitter is the stupidest thing to come out of the late "Web 2.0". It's like a blog, with even less coherence or relevance of thought.
- gustsomejuy, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2The way I understand it the phone companies in the UK bailed on Twitter because the “text messages” cost too much!
- Sazafraz, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2I'm not surprised. It's the same case in Australia where barely anybody knows what twitter is. The only reason i know anything about it is because of diggnation and digg.. and i finally decided to get an account going 2-3 days ago for micro-blogging music
- cadmiumpaint, on 01/21/2009, -3/+5twitter is the ultimate exercise in narcissism.
- DulcetTone, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Blogs themselves are merely personal homepages of the 21st century. What changed? Oh, right -- the margins got bigger.
- johnpaul191, on 01/21/2009, -1/+3how is Twitter worse than flash games, myspace, youtube or probably 80% of the internet? That being said, how is Twitter worse than the crossword puzzle or sports section of a NEWSpaper?
- mkpaa, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Exactly. They staid in Europe. :)
- Paulorific, on 01/21/2009, -1/+3Why the quotes?
- Lunarbunny, on 01/21/2009, -1/+3http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
- alexanderhorre, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Twitter is an amazing service. Frankly, it beats digg to the punch more often now; especially if you follow the people of industry that feed news to those that use Digg - I see it first. It's a more interactive RSS feed. When you organically built the people you want to follow, you build conversation -- the very thing e-business is dying to capture -- around news links, blog posts.
Twitter isn't about constantly saying "I'm eating dinner." It's not simply "what are you doing." It's more "What are you doing with your information you want more of?"
I follow industry leaders in my career. I follow my close friends. I follow interesting people my friends are following. You built a community that shares great news, commentary, and frankly, through the nature of early-adopters, building the next big thing in search: real-time search. - Typhoon2009, on 01/21/2009, -3/+5Life is a waste of time
***** you all - PaulOwen, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2In Europe, Twitter users are called 'Twits'. A twit is another name for a Twerp, or a *****.
A ***** is another word for a female nether anatomy. - inactive, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Most of you did. Oh hell, I just proved your point.
- algaeturd, on 01/21/2009, -1/+3Europeans have it right...it's for pretentious time wasters.
- krueger038, on 01/21/2009, -0/+2Cielo can mean either sky or heaven.
- lemur, on 01/21/2009, -0/+1It can refer to heaven, but the connotation does not change the denotation. I'm merely pointing out the fact that they named the coffee drink something that is supposed to sound very poetic and sophisticated but, in reality, isn't. In terms of Spanish, this isn't very high language.
- MM2Mud, on 01/21/2009, -0/+1While I agree twitter is complete *****, the creators do have some intelligence. A service that allows you to post useless details about your boring life on the internet appeals to the masses that know nothing further of the internet than Facebook, Youtube and Myspace.
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