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To Twit or not to Twit. What the heck is Twitter?

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TR6BILL

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Being somewhat limited in computerese, what the heck is Twitter?
I kinda glanced at some twits twitting and noticed it looked suspiciously like text messaging or IM. Why bother? Heck, I just mastered smoke signals.
 
IT'S A TRAP!!! RUN!!!
 
TR6BILL said:
Being somewhat limited in computerese, what the heck is Twitter?
I kinda glanced at some twits twitting and noticed it looked suspiciously like text messaging or IM. Why bother? Heck, I just mastered smoke signals.
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I don't know what twitting is all about, I don't know how to text message and I have no idea what IM is, anything close to BM?

I assume that twitting is just another thing for the idiots out there to do instead of paying attention to their driving. If you drive an LBC or a bike serious injury or death lurks at every intersection.
 
Being the word nut that I am, I really like the derivation of the name "Twitter".

The slang definition of "twit" is "A foolishly annoying person".

Ironic and rather fitting, don't you think?
 
Mick - that's an interesting new avatar you've got there.....not a ---------* statement, eh? :devilgrin: hehehehehehe


* hmmmm...just noticed "political" & "religious" have the same number of letters!
 
tony barnhill said:
Mick - that's an interesting new avatar you've got there.....not a ---------* statement, eh? :devilgrin: hehehehehehe


* hmmmm...just noticed "political" & "religious" have the same number of letters!
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Go cut your grass, Tony!
 
See www.twitter.com For me it's making my life public and quite frankly I'm not that interesting! I refuse to twit so I guess that makes me a twitterless twit! Think I'll go take Agatha for a ride. :driving:
 
If Twitter is anything like Tagged.com, data mining is the name of the game. I received an email last week from a friend of mine through Tagged. It said he had sent me a photo and that I should log on to see it. My first thought was "Why didn't he just email me the photo?" So I go to the site and I have to go through this big long thing to sign up. Including address, phone #, cell phone#, favorite color, blah blah. One of the questions Tagged asks: "To help you locate friends, do you want us to search your computer for your friends contact information?" Long story short, my friend never sent me a message, Tagged sent it without his knowledge using information they collected. After I signed up, I went to his profile. A counter on his page said he had been online 35 minutes ago, a lie. Then a half hour later, I get a message to the email I used to sign up that my friend had sent me a photo. Dam they're fast! Mind you, the email I gave them is my junk account which I periodically delete and make a new one. The signup process also validates information as you go along. So I had to use Google maps to find a valid address. Some guy in Colorado may be getting mail for a Mr. Jack Whole in the future.
 
I was wondering about that tagged.com I got several messages supposedly from a distant "acquaintance" of mine. Looked fishy from the start.

As for twitter - it isn't at all like that "tagged" thing. I look at it as a form of "blog" (if you don't know what a blog is, then just go change your oil and don't worry about it). There are uses for it (companies/organizations post announcements on their twitter pages, etc) but for the most part I don't see the fascination.

Facebook is another story. Several people in our airplane club are active there. It works pretty well as a place to share pictures with your friends and send comments/info back and forth. The information isn't available to the general public, only those that are listed as your "friends" can see/access the stuff (if that's how you want it).
 
Twitter is basically a social networking site, similar to Facebook or MySpace, only without the games and stuff. It's USP is the fact that you can only put up a post of 140 characters, which means this post went over about ten words back.

Doonesbury satirized Twitter when Roland Hedley started posting. His Tweets are consistently inane, but he needs to post constantly or risk becoming irrelevant.

-Wm.
 
Have a mail box in the front of my house I get the paper I have 2 phones a email acount txt messaging, same time,fax a GPS in the car. I can speak to languages. Stick a fork in me I'm done.

There will be no twits here!
 
Steve said:
Unique Selling Proposition?
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Close. It's <span style="font-weight: bold">U</span>nique <span style="font-weight: bold">S</span>elling <span style="font-weight: bold">P</span>oint. That's years of retail experience talking-it gets in the blood. Anyway, Twitter's stripped down 140 character limit is what makes it different from Facebook, etc. That and, it's far easier to post on Twitter from a cell phone using SMS (although you let yourself in for text costs), as opposed to FB which-I think-requires some web browsing ability.

Not that I've bothered with Twitter. I like FB-I've gotten back in touch with several old friends since I joined, as well as some of my cousins I only ever see at holidays. But I don't feel the need to update everyone with what I had for lunch or my views on some random event or story. I prefer to keep for people I actually care about. (You lot here are among the elite, I may add).

-Wm.
 
Mickey Richaud said:
Being the word nut that I am, I really like the derivation of the name "Twitter".

The slang definition of "twit" is "A foolishly annoying person".

Ironic and rather fitting, don't you think?
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THAT is hitting the nail right on the head!! :thumbsup:
 
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