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Final Proof Of Twitter's Uselessness

Fiddytree

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Thankfully there is something useful in his first tweet.

“President to announce loan guarantee today for first nuclear power plant built in US in 30 yrs - 3,500 jobs for construction.”
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But Not even the White House Press Secretary (Gibbs) can save it from mediocrity.


“It’s been fascinating to watch just over the few days that -- that I've -- since I've joined it. I have enjoyed watching you all comment on women's figure skating and ski-jumping,”
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Methinks NBC did not appreciate the honesty of "Coco" O' Brien when his staff were mercilessly attacking Twitter and its posters for meaningless banter.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalp...-says-whs-voice-is-important-on-twitter-.html

Twitter sucks. /rant
 
Fiddytree said:
Thankfully there is something useful in his first tweet.



But Not even the White House Press Secretary (Gibbs) can save it from mediocrity.




Methinks NBC did not appreciate the honesty of "Coco" O' Brien when his staff were mercilessly attacking Twitter and its posters for meaningless banter.

@PressSec Robert Gibbs Says WH?s Voice is 'Important' on Twitter - Political Punch

Twitter sucks. /rant
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I'm not a twitterer but there are times when news events show up first on Twitter when they are missing on a regular Google News search.

It is not entirely useless.
 
I think the only time where I was interested in it was when the Iranian riots were occurring and Iran had a media/communications blackout. That must have been, two years after it (Twitter) started? Then after that, nothing interesting about it ever again.
 
Manc Skipper said:
Was there ever any doubt that it sucked?
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Watch CNN. Their embrace of "new media" over the past few years was why I started watching more Fox News in the first place.
 
It is what it is.

Twitter is useful for:

-Keeping track of barebones updates on breaking news
-Telling everyone about that awesome Animal Collective show you and your hipster friends saw last night
-Staring wide-eyed in disbelief at how mindbogglingly retarded most professional athletes are
 
RightinNYC said:
It is what it is.

Twitter is useful for:

-Keeping track of barebones updates on breaking news
-Telling everyone about that awesome Animal Collective show you and your hipster friends saw last night
-Staring wide-eyed in disbelief at how mindbogglingly retarded most professional athletes are
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1 for 3, thank god Twitter isn't a baseball player.
 
Gina said:
No, none whatsoever!

I don't get why people are so fascinated by it????:roll:
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I would think they are shallow and never have been deep thinkers. To me, it's like more pollution or ugly graffiti just cluttering up the landscape.
 
azura28 said:
I would think they are shallow and never have been deep thinkers. To me, it's like more pollution or ugly graffiti just cluttering up the landscape.
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Indeed. Some of it so self-involved. Why does the world need to know that someone just ate cereal for breakfast?
 
Gina said:
No, none whatsoever!

I don't get why people are so fascinated by it????:roll:
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People were saying the same thing about blogs 6 years ago.


I don't get all the hatred towards twitter. Seriously... what's the big deal?
 
azura28 said:
I would think they are shallow and never have been deep thinkers. To me, it's like more pollution or ugly graffiti just cluttering up the landscape.
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I know plenty of deep thinkers who use twitter.


EDIT: Bashing twitter is kind of like bashing a screwdriver. That's just what it is - a tool, for people to use however they see fit. Ranting about how useless screwdrivers are because some people chose to hit themselves in the head with them seems pretty pointless.
 
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azura28 said:
I would think they are shallow and never have been deep thinkers. To me, it's like more pollution or ugly graffiti just cluttering up the landscape.
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Except its a landscape that you never ever have to look at.
 
Dav said:
People were saying the same thing about blogs 6 years ago.


I don't get all the hatred towards twitter. Seriously... what's the big deal?
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I was one of those who slammed blogs, I mean personal blogs. The ones like a few of my family members updated religiously to tell whoever had the link, what the kids were up to that day. Funny thing, it could have been easily duplicated by copying the previous day's update. Now they use FB and sometimes Twitter, and I view both with the same disdain. Who cares to know they just put another load of laundry in????:roll:

Media blogs, reporting of news or events, I have no problem with those and I never disparaged them.

I guess if the media wasn't constantly reporting tweets, I wouldn't even know it existed and therefore it wouldn't irritate me. LOL
 
Sigh. Having looked at the Facebook thread I think I get it now.

"You damn kids and your fancy newfangled screwdrivers! Back in my day, we had to do it all with our own fingers, it would take hours but it built CHARACTER, now that's something your generation needs, because everything's going to hell that's why, blah blah blah go get me my fake teeth."
 
Dav said:
People were saying the same thing about blogs 6 years ago.


I don't get all the hatred towards twitter. Seriously... what's the big deal?
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I still bash blogs.
 
Gina said:
I was one of those who slammed blogs, I mean personal blogs. The ones like a few of my family members updated religiously to tell whoever had the link, what the kids were up to that day. Funny thing, it could have been easily duplicated by copying the previous day's update. Now they use FB and sometimes Twitter, and I view both with the same disdain. Who cares to know they just put another load of laundry in????:roll:

Media blogs, reporting of news or events, I have no problem with those and I never disparaged them.

I guess if the media wasn't constantly reporting tweets, I wouldn't even know it existed and therefore it wouldn't irritate me. LOL
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The media reports tweets because that is what Twitter has always been: a subscription-based system where there is no communication between individuals. It's like subscribing to a newsletter, except 140 characters at maximum. While blogs were filled with banter which was typically given with zero expertise, credibility, or external resources listed, Twitter is merely a popularity game.

Before the mainstream media copied the gameplay, the tech community could figure out no other use for the technology other than geek celebrity following. One would have thought, if you would listen to the yammering of the tech community, that if given technological wonders, they could turn it into something useful instead of what the "big idiot doodoo heads of the mainstream world" would do with it. The fact of the matter was, there was nothing useful they could do. They had competitions to see who could get the most followers, and most of the conversation about twitter focused around that celebrity culture (though this was geek celebrity culture). Now it's the same thing, except more mainstream celebrities have grabbed on to it.

This past week we have seen Kevin Smith use twitter to talk about airlines and their prejudice towards overweight people. While some of that was both interesting from a media and technology perspective, and to a small degree-social perspective, a great deal of the follow-up felt like mere celebrity culture, and I had to stop myself from reading any further (for about the 5 minutes I actually read, and then the small observations I have gathered since that story "broke").
 
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Fiddytree said:
I still bash blogs.
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Then you are a freedom hating elitist. Blogs are nothing but a tool, a tool which allows people to be heard throughout the world. Previously, that tool was only available to the elite who could write in newspapers or magazines, report on T.V., etc. Now people have that power, and it is driving the freedom hating elitists crazy, since they despise the public which they perceive as being so far beneath them.

Bashing blogs is like bashing books. Like books, there are plenty of specific blogs worth bashing... but to bash the medium in general? When the printing press was invented, the elite despised it, since, like today's blog bashers, they hated freedom. Yet even people who bash blogs today don't do the same with books, which makes no sense. There are plenty of useless blogs, yes, but YOU DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM. This is true with books too. Also like books, some get popular, and some don't. This is called the free market, another concept which elitists hate.

Luckily, the old crusty elitists will eventually die out and leave us younger people alone to not be told how to live and what websites to use.
 
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I would not be a freedom hating elitist if I believe that people should be free to write blogs, but I may be an elitist if I declare that most of the blogs that are in existence are utter crap in proportion to books. There are plenty of terrible books, I have no resistance to declare that, but the proportion is staggering. I have little issue with being considered an elitist to most of the internet, because quite frankly, I do not feel I am wrong about it and most people do not necessarily disagree.
 
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But Twitter is very useful to a certain subset of society ;)

Please Rob Me

Hey, do you have a Twitter account? Have you ever noticed those messages in which people tell you where they are? Pretty annoying, eh. Well, they're actually also potentially pretty dangerous. We're about to tell you why.

---break---

The danger is publicly telling people where you are. This is because it leaves one place you're definitely not... home. So here we are; on one end we're leaving lights on when we're going on a holiday, and on the other we're telling everybody on the internet we're not home.
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Fiddytree said:
The media reports tweets because that is what Twitter has always been: a subscription-based system where there is no communication between individuals. It's like subscribing to a newsletter, except 140 characters at maximum. While blogs were filled with banter which was typically given with zero expertise, credibility, or external resources listed, Twitter is merely a popularity game.

Before the mainstream media copied the gameplay, the tech community could figure out no other use for the technology other than geek celebrity following. One would have thought, if you would listen to the yammering of the tech community, that if given technological wonders, they could turn it into something useful instead of what the "big idiot doodoo heads of the mainstream world" would do with it. The fact of the matter was, there was nothing useful they could do. They had competitions to see who could get the most followers, and most of the conversation about twitter focused around that celebrity culture (though this was geek celebrity culture). Now it's the same thing, except more mainstream celebrities have grabbed on to it.

This past week we have seen Kevin Smith use twitter to talk about airlines and their prejudice towards overweight people. While some of that was both interesting from a media and technology perspective, and to a small degree-social perspective, a great deal of the follow-up felt like mere celebrity culture, and I had to stop myself from reading any further (for about the 5 minutes I actually read, and then the small observations I have gathered since that story "broke").
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You hit upon a segment of Twitter users, celebrities, who are using it to obtain or keep themselves relevant and hey why not? It's free publicity if they tweet something stupid or that which the media deems "noteworthy". However, I find all of it completely lacking anything worth noting.
 
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Twitter is like a blog, except the entries are shortened to small messages, called "tweets". Twitter is also fluff, in that, in addition to reading someone's recipe, you can read someone else's rant about how Obama is a Communist Muslim Fascist who is not a US citizen, and cheated to gain the presidency, or how Bush was the antichrist that singlehandedly engineered 911 for his own benefit, and cheated to gain the presidency.

Browsing through Twitter is much like taking a tour of the local insane asylum. And, as for hard news, if I see anything on Twitter, I will first look to confirm it with a link to a legitimate source before making myself a laughing stock by posting it. :mrgreen:
 
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