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Read more.The official 'hot new trend' of today's internet is microblogging site Twitter, but why?
Last edited by Scott B; 23-02-2009 at 06:51 PM.
Twitter is blogging for those with insanely short attention spans, who still insist on, as stated in the article, 'showing off'.
Typo:
"I guess the exhibitionist in me is already catered for by having my writing in the public domain and I probably border on all the other categories too."
I'd have to stick with the ego-related reasons in justifying twitter. The very word 'followers' is conducive to making it seem worthwhile to anyone who doesn't try to think too deeply.
The point of twitter is to tweet things. Duh!Originally Posted by HEXUS
A maximum of 140 characters? That's less than an SMS! What sort of intelligent thought or important information could be conveyed by such a message? I can understand the point of a service like Facebook – to keep in contact with scores of people you met but don't know well enough to (intrusively) call them. But this... Don't people have anything more useful to do – either in their job or in their free time? The time wasted on all these social networking services and blogs must come from somewhere...
smalls things & small minds maybe? Everybody wants to feel popular and 'followed', this is just an easier way of doing it then trying the real world!
Like Facebook & Myspace it becomes oh-so tiresome very quickly. The advantage being it lacks the stalkers, spam & scams of FB & MS, but ultimately dull.
So much easier still to MSN or text, or just pick up the phone for a chat.
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I can see twitter being useful on a large project, where many people need to know where a VIP is, eg film director etc
haven't heard of it being used like that, but makes sense to me..........
One can never stop saying Thank You
A friend of mine used it last year when he did the Mongol Rally. We'll probably use it when we do the Africa Rally later in the year
wow, that Africa Rally looks schweeeeeeeeeet. Wonder what I'd do with my kids, tho..........
One can never stop saying Thank You
the birds round here can tweet a hell of a lot more than 140 characters!
especially at half 6 on a morning :|
BRING ON THE DOUBLE GLAZING IN THE SUMMER!
I read that it was used quite a lot during the 13 September 2008 Delhi bombings (falling under the 'Realtime news' category). Personally, I've not used it, and currently have no inclination to do so.
See Funkstar's image below, I seem to have arsed up trying to get it to display properly.
Originally published here.
Last edited by Scott B; 26-02-2009 at 08:39 PM.
PeteSmith (26-02-2009)
Scott B (26-02-2009)
i call shenanigans. its obviously 4 goons off the apprentice and some berk from a 50's b movie
Vodka
No, it move, but then I couldn't embed it, so saved it and added it to my Hexus GallerySee Funkstar's image below, I seem to have arsed up trying to get it to display properly.
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