[m4k4v4li]

ok so I'm late to jump on the twitter train but just curious as to how some people get sooo into twittering

i find it pretty lame I just got it tho... im thinking of deleting mine

what do ppl use it for... aside from news

i mean ppl who have twitter are already on facebook... and theres status updates which imo are better than tweets

[StealthFighter]

i think twitter is just for attention whores who think other people care about what they think.

this video will answer all your questions

YouTube- Twitter Chick - L.A.F.A

[SkinnyPupp]

For me, Twitter is a communal messaging tool. Like a combination of MSN and IRC. It's cool to have that again, I made a lot of good friends on IRC, including !SG back in 1998, and I met my now-wife on there too :D

[raygunpk]

For me, Twitter is a communal messaging tool. Like a combination of MSN and IRC. It's cool to have that again, I made a lot of good friends on IRC, including !SG back in 1998, and I met my now-wife on there too :D

you have a wife?
NO WONDER.

[SkinnyPupp]

No wonder what?

Think carefully before you answer :)

[raygunpk]

i'll space it all out through different threads so i don't get so many infractions all at once

=)

[SkinnyPupp]

How about I just ban you now then?

[BaoXu]

tweeting is just mini-blogging. its just blog entries in 150 characters or less, sometimes with links to pictures or websites or music.

sometimes it is used to find out people's opinions on current events or issues (you can do a search query for key words and see what people are saying about it). sometimes people use it for advertising products. sometimes people use it to report news.

[threezero]

i have come to a conclusion that unless you are sum of celeb nobody gives a shit. however i have an account setup so i can get instant update on news and when new product drops.

fb is still king in status update

[vafanculo]

Twitting addiction is as dumb as being addicted to FB. I don't have a twit account but I do like to read Dana whites twitter once in a while tho
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[Drow]

i registered one a couple weeks ago and tweeted my friend telling him hes gay and i never used it again

[Ax2-Y]

i can honestly say that i have NEVER been to the twitter website and i have zero desire to do so. i could care less about what 95% of the status updates on facebook are trying to tell me too.

does this mean i fail at the internet?

[ilvtofu]

There's not much point unless you have a bunch of close circle of friends that regularly use it

StealthFighter's video has a few sweet rides :thumbsup:

[drunkrussian]

i've never been a fan but am forced to use it at work for work. If you're into a specific topic (let's say cars ahem) i have found that it's actually a really good source of news.

Picturing your friend linking you to the latest car news,pics etc., except it's not your friend and you have thousands of such links to choose from. All the big car companies, bloggers etc. have twitters too, so it's really a much eaiser way to pick and choose from lots of information.

So for information and reading and finding links, it's great. For the more social firendly facebook type stuff - meh

[MR_BIGGS]

If you use it to find information it can benefit you. Doing a search on certain people, businesses and organizations can get you information you may be looking for. I set up an account about a two weeks ago just to see if I could use it as a networking tool like LinkedIn to communinate with potential employers.

Being on it and looking at other people's profiles, it seems like every Tom, Dick, Harry and Jane has a damn blog linked to their twitter account. They seem to get a lot of traffic coming their way, but who honestly reads this shit. So people that are social media junkies are the ones that like this twitter thing the most in my opinion.

[NimbeeTT]

I never understood the twitter hype either... i have an account but i never post. When i do log on once every month or so i read the stuff people post and literally it's all just:

"Omg, stupid traffic."

"Time to take a nap"

"Gonna take a bath now, ttylkkkk"

I mean other than certain celebrities or like CNN tweets, people who use it for their own pleasure basically just posts every second of their life on the internet.
Am i the only person who thinks that it's pointless and dumb? =/

[SkinnyPupp]

I never understood the twitter hype either... i have an account but i never post. When i do log on once every month or so i read the stuff people post and literally it's all just:

"Omg, stupid traffic."

"Time to take a nap"

"Gonna take a bath now, ttylkkkk"

I mean other than certain celebrities or like CNN tweets, people who use it for their own pleasure basically just posts every second of their life on the internet.
Am i the only person who thinks that it's pointless and dumb? =/
That means the people you follow are morons. Find new friends ;)

[shawn79]

lol probably some girl who has a crush on you, got you into twittering thats because she wants you to follow her or her following you.

[gilly]

Well for me, facebook is people that you "know". Meaning your closest friends, family, people you met once, old/current acquaintances or even strangers. I never status update on facebook.

For twitter, I have a close group of friends that uses twitter and we tweet random stuff that happened that day or stuff they found interesting. Twitter is only effective if your close friends/family uses it on a regular basis.

I think following celebrities or people you don't know is kinda stupid and pointless unless they are SNSD. hah

[Tim Budong]

Twitter is the pinnacle of what Social Media has evolved to in the past few years. I did a small post in my blog about this subject.

regardless, there's a few people on RS that have HUGE twitter followings. may it be for fun or with a purpose at hand, twitter allows successful bloggers to further branch out to their readers by these small tweets.

It also allows the common folk to sign up, follow some celebs, some news and have twitter sources BREAK the news

Twitter is NOT useless, its actually now a big marketing tool

[Grandmaster TSE]

its a great networking tool, and if you're doing anything with marketing, its a great tool for business

[StealthFighter]

I think following celebrities or people you don't know is kinda stupid and pointless unless they are SNSD. hah

if it was yuri twittering about a self-breast examination, then that would make me change my mind about twitter

[The_AK]

Just don't post useless shit. If you want people to follow what you're saying, make sure what you're saying is meaningful and not some bullshit like Ashton Kutcher's posts.
"Currently sleeping, woke up, brushing teeth, taking a shit, wiping ass".

One actual example of how Twitter was used to a business's advantage is when my coworker expressing her disinterest about a service she was paying for (watching movies online). The business basically searched up what people were saying about their business and was able to figure out a resolution with her.

Or for example you just got yourself an iPhone and you want some information about jailbreaking it. Search it up

http://twitter.com/#search?q=jailbreak%20iphone

Overall, Twitter is not bad but its just not for some.

[Tim Budong]

Just don't post useless shit. If you want people to follow what you're saying, make sure what you're saying is meaningful and not some bullshit like Ashton Kutcher's posts.
"Currently sleeping, woke up, brushing teeth, taking a shit, wiping ass".

One actual example of how Twitter was used to a business's advantage is when my coworker expressing her disinterest about a service she was paying for (watching movies online). The business basically searched up what people were saying about their business and was able to figure out a resolution with her.

Or for example you just got yourself an iPhone and you want some information about jailbreaking it. Search it up

http://twitter.com/#search?q=jailbreak%20iphone

Overall, Twitter is not bad but its just not for some.

Great insight on twitter! Almost every website now has a twitter account in which they will use to further interact with the readers! Businesses alike will use to tool to run promos and contest and also provide customer service analysis based on the "trends" on twitter!

[Ronin]

4600 people give a shit about what I'm doing...

[raygunpk]

4600 people give a shit about what I'm doing...

4590 of them just want you to check out their pics

[Ronin]

4590 of them just want you to check out their pics

I have a tool that removes all spammers as well as all people that have less than 100 followers, 100 people followed and 100 tweets unless they're people I actually followed.

[MR_BIGGS]

I have a tool that removes all spammers as well as all people that have less than 100 followers, 100 people followed and 100 tweets unless they're people I actually followed.

Do you have a blog linked to your twitter profile?

[Ronin]

Do you have a blog linked to your twitter profile?

Yes

P.S. if a spammer follows you, just don't follow them back and they will automatically either be removed by Twitter or unfollow you in 3 days. Usually 3 days...I know what tool they're using.

[MR_BIGGS]

Yes

P.S. if a spammer follows you, just don't follow them back and they will automatically either be removed by Twitter or unfollow you in 3 days. Usually 3 days...I know what tool they're using.

If you didn't have a blog link or some link to your business on your twitter account, I'd be impressed with you just simply tweeting and having people follow you in such large numbers. Nonethless, 4000 is pretty crazy either way.

[SuperSlowSS]

its not who or how many follows you. it is who you follow.

[raygunpk]

its not who or how many follows you. it is who you follow.

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc61/blarneystoned/confus.jpg

[SkinnyPupp]

4600 people give a shit about what I'm doing...
You mean 4600 followed you back when you auto-added them, because they also want to have a large (completely meaningless) number of followers ;)

[underscore]

the only thing that pisses me off is the few friends of mine who have FB, Twitter and a blog, then a program that autoposts across all three. So they post on the blog and then Twitter tweets the title and a link to the blog and then FB posts the title and the link to the blog AS WELL as a link to the tweet. It's fucking ridiculous.

I will admit I follow two twitter accounts, well ok now only one (Newlywedsontjob and Shitmydadsays) but I have them in my Fastdial on Firefox. But 99.99% of what gets posted on twitter is useless. Aside from the purely comedic ones, I can't think of anyone or anything that I want to know every little update on, immediately.

[SuperSlowSS]

http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc61/blarneystoned/confus.jpg


It isn't a contest to see how many are following you. Most people try to be nice and do this if you follow me then I follow you thing. But really you should only follow the twitts you actually care about and find useful.

[miss_crayon]

I actually stopped using FB as much because I find Twitter being a better social networking tool+stay updated with your friends. Some might find it lame or the concept stupid, but tell that to those of us who use it daily and actually enjoy staying connected with others knowing what they are doing that very second.

[underscore]

^ that's called stalking

[Ronin]

It's true...Crayon stalks me on Twitter all the time.

[miss_crayon]

^ that's called stalking

Well if that's the case, stalking is helping me gain more business and network at the same time

[underscore]

so you know what all of your clients are doing at every second? yeah that's creepy.

[El Bastardo]

It helps you gain a better perspective on their ever-changing needs and react immediately.

[Yuffa]

I've had a twitter account for a long time but it certainly took a good learning curve to understand the language, converstaions and community.

What it is in Canada and definately different from the States and I am actually kind of glad that it's not being flooded by the "OMG I AM POOING" Twits YET.

If you follow the right people and interact with the right crowd.....Twitter definately gives you a headsup of what is happening around town and the supply and demand of your market if you are into business. There are tons of amazing PRs and marketing people making good use of the service while providing informative and creative entertainment for the day.

I'm having fun with it so far......:thumbsup:

[ilvtofu]

I lol'ed when you were talking about being flooded by poo

I throw some of those out there "taking a dump" or "I didn't eat any corn" then you get some texts telling you how disgusting you are

Don't really use it much anymore as it's pretty dull after a while and 140 characters is too limiting

[Mananetwork]

For me it was really hard to get into at first but it's all worth it. I've met so many amazing people and been to a lot of great events over the past year now. Glad to have done it because it's helped my business and who-to-know (follow) people in this city!

Plus I get to stalk Maggie .. and Ronin from time to time

[murd0c]

I use twitter for two reasons, NHL trade deadline and July1st free agents other then that I don't give two shits about what someone had to eat or what happened to them at work today.
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[Yuffa]

^ If you take the time to look into the better contents that people post....there is a lot of hidden treasures there. Treat it as like a website that you frequent...like a RSS feed with a real person behind each thread.....like the NSFW thread that you check everyday....:p

[murd0c]

Hmmmm really, can you post some examples :D
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[Gh0stRider]

lol..noob

[Meowjin]

facebook is for people i know but hate and twitter is for people I don't know but like.

[t8v6]

i mainly use twitter for following updates from businesses and organizations. Much more convenient and simple than facebook imo. facebook is geared more towards networking with friends and family.

[raygunpk]

^ If you take the time to look into the better contents that people post....there is a lot of hidden treasures there. Treat it as like a website that you frequent...like a RSS feed with a real person behind each thread.....like the NSFW thread that you check everyday....:p

you have no proof i go there 3 times a day

[Midnitez]

Great insight on twitter! Almost every website now has a twitter account in which they will use to further interact with the readers! Businesses alike will use to tool to run promos and contest and also provide customer service analysis based on the "trends" on twitter!

w3rd

i gets tons of interesting shit around the world tweeted to me......
it's like this revscene off topic section but simplified
no one says u gotta tweet about ur personal life..... all the time.....

[sonick]

I use it to stalk celebrities, get Vegas deals and hockey news.

I also find it VERY useful for breaking news.

[Big.Xero]

80% of the time I'm just talkin' jive. The other 20 i'm autoposting a tweet from my blog.