Twitter?

[NutmegCT]

I'm admittedly inexperienced in many of the latest digital communications gizmos and fads.

A few mornings ago I saw a string of Twitter <span style="text-decoration: line-through">posts</span> Tweets streaming across the bottom of the screen on a cable news show. Then I realized that bazillions of Twitter posts are zapping around the 'net every day.

How do you *use* Twitter? I understand you can send those 140 character posts easily ... but who actually chooses a few topics and sits at the screen all day and reads them? Or do they just pile up in your email inbox and overwhelm you when you check email?

My naive brain imagines a major - and overwhelming - data overload.

Call me Cranky in Connecticut.
Tom

 

[JPSmit]

you don't want to use Twitter - arguably the most banal corner of the Internet. Even my son turned his back on it. Basically it is people telling the whole wide world what no one cares about.

Call me Cranky in Canada

 

[Basil]

you don't want to use Twitter - arguably the most banal corner of the Internet. Even my son turned his back on it. Basically it is people telling the whole wide world what no one cares about.

Call me Cranky in Canada

 

[elrey]

Twix are for kids, Twitter is for twits.

 

[NutmegCT]

Thanks guys. Glad to know I'm not alone in my thinking.

T.

 

[DrEntropy]

HUGE waste of bandwidth.

 

[drooartz]

A true case of an interesting technology being put to less interesting usage. The notion of a simple to use write-once read-many technology is very powerful stuff. Facebook is very similar in this regards

Unfortunately we humans don't seem to have very effective personal filters in place, so the mundane and inane is more often what gets posted, to the exclusion of meaningful content. Simply put, we're just not very good self-editors.

Shame, really, as it's quite clever stuff. Hopefully it'll all sift out some day and we'll be able to use the tools effectively. I can see the appeal, but the signal-to-noise ratio just isn't good enough in most cases.

 

[Banjo]

I used to think it would be cool to be able to read minds... But now that we can,...
Our only hope lies in the Proles. Cr@p! they got twitter. All is lost...

 

[Guest]

I used to think it would be cool to be able to read minds..

Phhhhh, as if....I'm not quite sure if I even know what ~I'm~ thinking. :laugh:

 

[coldplugs]

I used to think it would be cool to be able to read minds... But now that we can,...
Our only hope lies in the Proles. Cr@p! they got twitter. All is lost...

:lol:

 

[DrEntropy]

Too true. They're commonly referred to as "the mob".

May Siddhartha have mercy.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Aren't people who use twitter called twits?

 

[waltesefalcon]

Doh! I just noticed elrey's post. I guess I'm the twit now.