Twitter

Abraham · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:30

Wyrdo said:
Yeah, that's why he said 'for the most part'

but it's not for the most part, most people on there, especially who were on there prior to mid jan, use it in a considerably more useful way than that

Knubje · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:37

It's ok to like Twitter Abraham, honestly, no worries

Azagoth · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:40

I don't use Twitter, I much prefer the OcUK fora search function.

Ciphon · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:40

Twitter sounds sooooooo awful... I think Facebook / MySpace in generally are prettty awful.. but Twitter just sound so bad!

And now Microsoft are trying to turn Hotmail into some social networking site? I'd much rather have the new's displayed on the main page than some crap about my "Network"

mrk · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:45

i USED tWITTER ONCE AND EXPECTED IT TO BE AMAZING AFTER HEARING ABOUT IT ON THE CHRIS MOYLES' SHOW ONE FINE MORNING BUT WHAT i WAS GREETED WITH WAS SOMETHING VERY PLAIN AND BLAND AND LACKING......IT'S EXACTLY AS ONE PERSON PUT IT, A WEBSITE FULL OF FACEBOOK STATUS UPDATES.

HECK THERE'S EVEN AN APPLICATION TO WELD THE 2 NETWORKING SITES TOGETHER SO YOUR TWITTER UPDATES BECOME YOUR FACEBOOK STATUS CHANGES.

YAWN.

Edit*
Caps lock was on, my bad....too much to go rewriting especially about Twitter...

Neodite · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:46

Holy caps batman.

I have yet to make a twitter account, but i supose there could be a good use for it, a large group of freinds keeping each other updated etc.

Dunno ill create an account now and see what the fuss is about, lol

Abraham · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:47

Knubje said:
It's ok to like Twitter Abraham, honestly, no worries

It just frustrates me that because of the media attention it's got it's automatically seen as being equivalent to a facebook status and it's only purpose being as plenty of people in this and previous threads seem to think, to report mundane day to day activities.

CliffyBiro · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:48

http://twitter.com/smcgahan

hamesy · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:50

After hearing loads of people go on about it, I thought I may as well sign up to see what all the fuss is about. Signed up, logged in and thought to myself what a load of ****. Deleted my account within 15 minutes of signing up.

Knubje · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:51

Abraham said:
It just frustrates me that because of the media attention it's got it's automatically seen as being equivalent to a facebook status and it's only purpose being as plenty of people in this and previous threads seem to think, to report mundane day to day activities.

Maybe people have bought into the hype, visited the site and came to their own conclusions about it being a bunch of facebook status updates?

Neodite · 25 Feb 2009 at 16:54

Knubje said:
Maybe people have bought into the hype, visited the site and came to their own conclusions about it being a bunch of facebook status updates?

I dont get facebook status's either. My partner and freinds/family are forever updating it... i think mine gets changed once a week :rolleyes:

shifty_uk · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:10

skippi90 said:
http://twitter.com/smcgahan

How interesting.

HangTime · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:10

The more I think about it the more it seems like a good idea, I know people who update their facebook status several times a day (usually saying they are bored, depressed, asking questions, or making some vaguely amusing gag about something they've seen on tv) and can't help but feel that they'd be better suited to Twitter. One of my more geeky friends obviously uses Twitter in some group with work-related people as he's got it linked into his FB which constantly gets updated with random techie questions which nobody else would give two hoots about.

The worrying thing is it is slightly contagious and I've started setting 'amusing' FB status' sometimes. Bleh.

In some ways, it's the modern day equivalent of /away or nick|BLABLA on IRC. You know, some kind of way of saying what you're doing, sometimes to try and promote how super cool you are. I even used to have a /bed alias to change my nick to BedTime, tehehehe!

CliffyBiro · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:13

shifty_uk said:
How interesting.

I am a simple fellow.

krooton · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:13

At least facebook has some uses, like photo hosting and events organising.

[ASSE]Hinchy · 25 Feb 2009 at 17:19

Even if it was fun for following celebrities, surely loads of people make fake ones pretending to be celebrities, much like facebook?

I just really don't see the point, nor could I imagine myself sitting on a website updating people with what I was doing throughout the day.

Christo · 10 Mar 2009 at 14:57

Ive recently got a little addicted to this - there's a real community aspect to it, almost like being a member of a bulletin board. Im following friends/celebrities I find funny (David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Richard Bacon etc) its actually good fun..

~J~ · 10 Mar 2009 at 15:07

Christo said:
Ive recently got a little addicted to this - there's a real community aspect to it, almost like being a member of a bulletin board. Im following friends/celebrities I find funny (David Mitchell, Jimmy Carr, Richard Bacon etc) its actually good fun..

The David Mitchell one is brilliant.

Just got home and seen the mess. Heavens to mergatrude! It's not that bad, but Kim and Aggie would seriously flip.

CliffyBiro · 10 Mar 2009 at 15:08

krooton said:
At least facebook has some uses, like photo hosting and events organising.

You can do the same on Twitter

Azagoth · 10 Mar 2009 at 15:13