News - Twitter goes down ? world copes

[unreal]

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Seek help...

Seriously......

Haha seriously?

What I posted was completely rational and frankly informative point of discussion from an alternative point of view, I am supposed to have an intelligent discussion with this?

[aidanjt]

Why because he thinks Twitter is a useful tool and you don't? Whats to say you aren't the one who should be seeking help?

Do you know what twitter is?.. An intardweb database which has a text field smaller than 1st generation (1990's) SMS which almost entirely contains the collective brainfarts of humanity. It's the 21st century equivalent of using a micro-screwdriver made of plastic to drive 3" wood screws.

[Saracen]

Personally, I'm militantly disinterested in what happens on, or to, twitter. Ditto facebook, etc.

If people enjoy them or find them useful, then good for them. But me? Not interested in the slightest.

[unreal]

Do you know what twitter is?.. An intardweb database which has a text field smaller than 1st generation (1990's) SMS which almost entirely contains the collective brainfarts of humanity. It's the 21st century equivalent of using a micro-screwdriver made of plastic to drive 3" wood screws.

I don't actually know where this ball of hate generates from but that must be a personal issue... but I don't see how you can compare screwdrivers to a worldwide free communication device, what a bizarre analogy.

Brainfarts? Surely that wouldn't have let me talk to my greatest idols within the music industry. ALL of my music idols bar one (who's JUST got an account) i've had a conversation with, and I've even networked with them through this.

Now thanks to twitter I'm going to a meeting with them next week here in London when they get here from LA.

I think you're being really ignorant and thinking that one annoying person on twitter you saw simply represents every other member there.

[Singh400]

Do you know what twitter is?.. An intardweb database which has a text field smaller than 1st generation (1990's) SMS which almost entirely contains the collective brainfarts of humanity. It's the 21st century equivalent of using a micro-screwdriver made of plastic to drive 3" wood screws.

Sorry, but thats what you think Twitter is.

[aidanjt]

I don't actually know where this ball of hate generates from but that must be a personal issue... but I don't see how you can compare screwdrivers to a worldwide free communication device, what a bizarre analogy.

Brainfarts? Surely that wouldn't have let me talk to my greatest idols within the music industry. ALL of my music idols bar one (who's JUST got an account) i've had a conversation with, and I've even networked with them through this.

Now thanks to twitter I'm going to a meeting with them next week here in London when they get here from LA.

I think you're being really ignorant and thinking that one annoying person on twitter you saw simply represents every other member there.

ignorant:-
# uneducated in general; lacking knowledge or sophistication; "an ignorant man"; "nescient of contemporary literature"; "an unlearned group ...
# uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field; "she is ignorant of quantum mechanics"; "he is musically illiterate"
# unaware because of a lack of relevant information or knowledge; "he was completely ignorant of the circumstances"; "an unknowledgeable assistant"; "his rudeness was unwitting"

I know what twitter is. It's the lack of ignorance which has me rooted in my disdain for twitter. It's yet another poorly reinvented wheel where prior implementations were already long since invented, refined, and are far superior. BTW, the fact that your favourite musicians use twitters says nothing more than the 'service' is a fad.

Here's the other problem with twitter, nobody cares about your every waking thought. You're irrelevant, deal with it.

[kalniel]

Feeling your age aidanjt?

[unreal]

I know what twitter is. It's the lack of ignorance which has me rooted in my disdain for twitter. It's yet another poorly reinvented wheel where prior implementations were already long since invented, refined, and are far superior. BTW, the fact that your favourite musicians use twitters says nothing more than the 'service' is a fad.

Here's the other problem with twitter, nobody cares about your every waking thought. You're irrelevant, deal with it.

LOL I'm really glad I'm not this negative about free things in life!

I probably am as 'irrelevant' as the next guy, but I hardly signed up and started using twitter in seek of relevance. And I don't use it in that manner too...

The service may indeed be a 'fad' if and until something better comes along, does that mean I should hold out on using it until something you vision as perfect is crafted? It still does the job and does it well. Fad or not, I would not have been able to talk to people I would have dreamed to be able to talk to 5 years ago if I wasn't on here.

What I simply can't understand is why you have so much hatred for this free non-intrusive service and why you can't understand that many people out there like myself find it useful - you're border-lining on a simply childish manner here. But apparently your hatred for it is from it being nothing more but a 'reinvented wheel'? I see it as one of many many great representations on why the internet and the freedom of speech and thought it represents is core. It was the perfect medium for Iranians to express their opinions and experiences with the election, as well as see that the world supports their fight.

Everyone who assumes it's a facebook status field for the masses needs to rethink of their early impression of the service.

[Tarffie]

To be fair to Twitter the fact there's news reports about it being down for an hour is testament to how much they've improve the quality of the service. Back when I used regularly it a couple of years ago it used to be quite the achievement if it managed to stay up for an entire hour in one go.

[unreal]

It was down due to a DDoS attack too (Facebook was too I think)!

[nightkhaos]

*sigh* As always when Twitter is mentioned the same agrument:

1. Why would anyone want to hear about all your waking thoughts? Twitter sucks.
2. Person in number 1, you're missing the point of twitter, why don't you try it and find out for yourself.
3. Twitter is so backwards, how can you say anything important in 140 characters?
4. Person in number 3, it's actually quite easy try it for yourself and don't be ignorant of that which you don't want to understand.
5. Person in number 4, please get a life and go back to the real world.
6. Person in number 5, that wasn't very nice. Please enjoy the following insults for my amusement.
7. Retort
8. Counter Retort
9. Questioning of sexual preference
10. Suggestion that person in number 9 be quiet
11. Notation that person in number 10 creates a vacuum
12. Riposte
13. Add-on Riposte
14. Counter Riposte
15. Counter-Counter Riposte
16. Nonsensical Statement Involving Plankton
17. Response to Random Statement and Threat to Ban Opposing Sides
18. Words of Praise for Fishfood
19. Acknowledgement and Acceptance of Terms

Linky removed by Admins... it was just a bash quote.

[Biscuit]

i was out drinking and telling real people about how i felt...

[unreal]

I LOVE fishfood!

[Orbixx]

Twitter becomes intrusive when I become aware of it and its concept. It achieves nothing. It does nothing new. People only use it because of the media, buzzwords and general marketing and the craze on social networking at the moment. Facebook actually serves a reasonable purpose and provides several useful facilities and I can totally understand why some people wouldn't use it and can also understand why a lot of people do use it.

Twitter however allows you to read and post extremely limited amounts of text. Stupidly small amounts. Sure it's free and sure it doesn't make you use it. But it's comparable to the Crazy Frog. It's annoying as hell, pointless and although you're not forced to listen to it, you may hear it at certain times when other people play it or when it's advertised on TV - and that makes you hate it because you hate everything about the annoying little sod. Same with Twitter, it's mentioned in the media ALL the time for some peculiar reason, the BBC seem to get half their news from the bloody site.

It's another stupid craze that will slowly die out as the years go by. People who praise Twitter in technological terms fail to do so without spouting marketing BS to cover up for their lack of material.

Anybody who disagrees with me should drive their head at the highest velocity possible to and from their keyboard repeatedly until they either fall unconscious or find that some sense may have been knocked into them.

[Biscuit]

i dont think a keyboard is sharp or tough enough for that purpose, just move it out the way and go straight for the desk or floor.

[scaryjim]

*sigh* As always when Twitter is mentioned the same agrument:

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