Follow me on Twitter

Freefaller · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:00

chrisxuk said:
I find the more you use it, the better it gets. I've known a lot of people who have signed up, don't follow anybody and complain about how pointless it is.

Follow plenty of people who you are interested in, and your timeline gets created to suit you best, making it a much more enjoyable experience.

Celebs don't really interest me - but for things like the news I can see it being relatively similar to and RSS feed?

Doonhamer · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:07

Pretty much how I treat it to be honest. As a big old RSS feed feeding me storys from lots of random sources. Never tweet anything myself, just use it to keep myself up to date.

squerble · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:18

Followed - @karlbbb2

Damien. · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:29

Why not !

@Mercengineer

Marine/Boat based rants a lot of the time !

Rameses · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:37

Well I'm following everyone I could find so I expect some follow backs yo!

Only had 1 extra today boohoo.

xJcBx · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:44

AmTechFox said:
Only had 1 extra today boohoo.

Tefal · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:50

Freefaller said:
Without wanting to hijack the thread - can tweet experts help explain what the deal is with Twitter? Or is it just a tool for following celebrities and their shennanigans?

It's face book status updates without the rest of face book.

Marky · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:51

AmTechFox said:
Yes Marky, there IS a world outside of OcUK Forums!

Did you just refer to "a world outside of OcUK Forums" as Twitter?

Think you kinda did

Strife212 · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:52

Tefal said:
It's face book status updates without the rest of face book.

Pretty much but actual people you might be interested to hear their status updates use twitter, game dev news is often released on twitter these days for example.

DirtyJester · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:54

Can't you just do it on ere ?

mhk1058 · 22 Mar 2011 at 22:56

Freefaller said:
Without wanting to hijack the thread - can tweet experts help explain what the deal is with Twitter? Or is it just a tool for following celebrities and their shennanigans?

Basically an easy way to send the equivalent of a text to a lot of people. Celebrities get a lot of air time because they get a lot of followers. Basically an ego feeding poularity contest. You can find out what they had for breakfast and other exciting stuff.

Companies, busineses etc can keep a lot of people up to date with quick messages.

Having said that, I am trying to understand why it is so popular so I'll follow you

@markkneen

~>Dg<~ · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:05

twitter great for posting short lines of ******

Maccy · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:38

Gustov said:
Maccy, Scarysquirrel, Azza, what are your profiles?

Here's mine

http://twitter.com/#!/Sharpant89

I mostly tweet about football, music and films!

Mine's in my sig

marcus_667 · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:47

followed back anyone whos followed me

Tefal · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:50

Strife212 said:
Pretty much but actual people you might be interested to hear their status updates use twitter, game dev news is often released on twitter these days for example.

yes game devs love it as it means they don't have to answer difficult question from reporters and more importantly bugger all people read it so they can slip out "tweets" about removing features etc just before release without worrying out precious preorders.

Westyfield2 · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:52

Castiel said:
I don't get twitter.

I might start an account though......maybe.

I nearly joined Twitter the other day,

Then didn't

.

GothicCorpse · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:56

Twitters cool, leave it in the background like gmail, its not gonna hurt ya

Efour · 22 Mar 2011 at 23:59

I understand facebook but twitter what? Isn't it for famous people to say what they had for lunch ?

thedoc46 · 23 Mar 2011 at 00:10

I must be getting old.. Cos I really can't see the point of it.

thedoc46 · 23 Mar 2011 at 00:16

Subliminal Aura said:
Not meaning to sound harsh but here it is in black and white.

1 - You're very very late to the party, building communities now is harder than ever and will probably cost you more the longer you leave it.

2 - Forums, great, ocuk has had a great run with this but let's face it the money is with the young and it's highly unlikely they'll follow the forum route but rather discuss tech through social networks, it's quicker and easier. Once in you're sitting on a goldmine like dare I say your competitors are.

3 - Effort, where's the ocuk blog ? Where are all the fantastic builds and technical insights ? Build the blog link it to your sites - gain traction and THEN explode it on social networks - Facebook <-> Twitter and ping it to hell and back.

4 - Failure with current twitter campaigns. Social networking is about engaging people. You can't start a campaign sourced from these forums. As I hinted forum folk and twitter folk are two different breads. It's like you're breaking every single social networking rule out there which brings me to ...

5 - Detrimental social networking presence. Continue with what you're doing at the moment and it'll be bad for ocuk - and I mean financially - An @Spie twitter account is also a bad idea as followers want to know about the real @Spie not what he does for a living.

Sorry I had to get this off my chest as I'm tired of seeing you guys fail at this.

Look at this way - I've been on Twitter from the very start and have linked forum topics on many occasions, if you had a twitter presence I would have linked you too.

Final nail in the coffin { fearing the ban hammer }, your competitors actively scan tweets, follow and engage this is probably a reason why I followed them back but I'm not the only one - around 30 odd in my circle follow them too but none of us follow @overclockers_uk.

I seriously hope you guys can sort this out ... please ?

Are you a millionaire or just a know it all?