Poll: Twitter popularity

Twitter, love or hate

  • Yes I have a page and like it

    Votes: 117 21.7%

  • I don't have a page, but like it

    Votes: 31 5.8%

  • I don't use it and I don't like it

    Votes: 218 40.5%

  • I use it but don't like it.

    Votes: 17 3.2%

  • Pancake.

    Votes: 155 28.8%
  • Total voters
    538
toon_mad said:
yes, but i dont need to talk to them through a pc screen :rolleyes:
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So it's not that you don't want to know someone else's business or that you don't want them knowing yours. It's that you don't think you should use technology to do it? I have friends all over the country, should I not phone them?
 
i tried to use it buts theres just too much going on... i could literally read through all the stuff on my feed, refresh and there'd be another load waiting
 
didnt get on with twitter, too much happening and quite hard to get round it for a newb.
i think its got its uses though, i kind of like the show of celebs on there making quite normal posts :p
 
I use it mainly for getting breaking news and sport using TweetDeck rather than having multiple browser windows for lots of different sources.
 
I think it's both useful and not depending on what you do with it, like if you use the search feature to see if a website is down for others or to get some quick bit of info or news, like when something big happens lots of people can get the info out fast, also adding a bunch of interesting people or news feeds can be alright, however i think for most people it's a pointless way to communicate as i doubt many people have lots of followers or even any worthwhile stuff to post.
 
Radiation said:
however i think for most people it's a pointless way to communicate as i doubt many people have lots of followers or even any worthwhile stuff to post.
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not sure how it's pointless, even in that respect, if someone wants to read what you've got to say they can follow you, if you've no followers there's no point posting anything.

I have 270ish followers, and sure a lot of those won't actually see stuff I post, but a surprising amount do. So long as what you're posting is interesting it will get shared around, or spark a conversation. If that's not what you want to do, then it's the wrong medium for you. People go on and on about twitter being used for celebrities, but I know the majority of people I actively communicate with on mine, we're still just sharing links, or interesting things on the whole, but it doesn't need to be a corporation or a celeb to be interesting.
 
It's absolute garbage.

Just makes some big headed people feel like they have to share everything they do, with everyone.

:mad:
 
For those who actually have a proper use for it it's a useful tool however for those who like to update people with what their doing, eating and sich every 2 second it's an annoyance so... PANCAKE!
 
Robboftw said:
It doesn't relate to everyone, it just seems like a good place for originally somewhat big headed people to further annoy everyone further :p
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Then don't follow them. I have found plenty of people that are like the one I quoted, I don't follow celebs as a general rule and find it a great way to learn about new technologies etc. Yes there are annoying people on Twitter, but you can easily avoid them totally.
 
I'm of the "don't use it and don't like it" persuasion. It's bad enough people updating FaceBook on a continuous basis, I really neither need nor want another stream of information about the minutae of peoples lives - if they're important enough to me that I care what happens to them daily then I'll generally find out in the old fashioned way, if they're not that important to me then why would I want this extra information?

However Twitter is easy enough for me to ignore except for the proliferation of mentions in the media, I wouldn't be totally surprised to discover that there was a bet at the BBC to see how many times it could be dropped into reports as the hip and happening news source until it became so popular.
 
semi-pro waster said:
I'm of the "don't use it and don't like it" persuasion. It's bad enough people updating FaceBook on a continuous basis, I really neither need nor want another stream of information about the minutae of peoples lives - if they're important enough to me that I care what happens to them daily then I'll generally find out in the old fashioned way, if they're not that important to me then why would I want this extra information?
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Twitter isn't really about the author. That's a big difference between Facebook feeds and Twitter, which is why facebook changed it's feed wording.

Think of it in terms about blogs. I don't read my friends blogs to find out about them, I read it because I'm interested in the work they do or their opinion on a certain subject. I do the same with Twitter. I don't read people's feeds to see what they up to socially, I use it to read their opinions, links and see what cool stuff their working on.
 
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