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NutmegCT

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I've been hearing and reading more and more references to "the number of Twitter posts has skyrocketed".

I think I understand that anyone with a Twitter account can post on anything they want and click "send".

But who reads the "tweets"? Do users actually just sit around all day reading them?

Thanks.
Tom the Frugal Luddite

PS - My kind of Tweety Bird:

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yup - people "subscribe" to others tweets. Even my son won't go on twitter.
 
JPSmit said:
yup - people "subscribe" to others tweets. Even my son won't go on twitter.
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Thanks JP. So how do you "get" a tweet? does it come via email, or to a FaceBook page, or to a "Twitter app", or ...?

I guess what I'm getting at is, do you have to keep staring at a screen as the tweets come in?

T.
 
In a word, Tom, yes.

There's a "word limit" and you need to set up an account and an app.

To hijack (and mangle) a Douglas Adams quote: "Mostly useless."
 
startech47 said:
Planning a campaign?
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:lol: Yep, sounds like Big Bird's goose may be cooked. :jester:


Tell you what, I'll vote for Tweety! It's been how many years and he aint got e't yet! :wink:

Not bad for a bird brain!
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Basically Twitter is a platform that allows you to broadcast messages up to 140 characters long. Think of it like sending a text message on a phone. The difference is that Twitter is a blind broadcast. The message isn't sent to anyone in particular.

Other people sign up to read your tweets by "following" you. The important aspect here is that your tweets need to somehow be interesting enough, or you need to be interesting enough, for people to follow you.

I'm a tech person, but I think Twitter is stupid. It is one of the most self-centered means of communication I've ever seen. It's the digital equivalent of my three year old standing next to me and yelling, "Hi Daddy! Hi Daddy! Hi Daddy! Hi Daddy!....."

I'm certain some people have found valid uses for it, but I haven't.
 
Jody's explanation is good, however there is a knack to using it. You "follow" only those you want to follow, and once you build that you see only messages posted by those people. You can direct the "tweets" to specific people or contribute to conversations. To do otherwise is like drinking from a fire hose.

Twitter is only useful if you make it so, it's just another tool and isn't easy to get the hang of, I'll grant you.
 
I'm with Jody.

I'll fire up an e-mail client and send the missives. "Tweets" are time consuming, and akin to Jody's three-year-old's utterances, indeed. :wink:
 
To me, honestly, it just seems like another web-forum (but a mobile one).

I can't keep up with the stuff I'm already on and do not need another distraction.

But I do see it as a business and news tool.

I don't need it in my business and I already read The Times every day.
 
JodyFKerr said:
Basically Twitter is a platform that allows you to broadcast messages up to 140 characters long. Think of it like sending a text message on a phone. The difference is that Twitter is a blind broadcast. The message isn't sent to anyone in particular.

Other people sign up to read your tweets by "following" you.
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I can't imagine that anyone could possibly be so bored as to want to follow anything I could think of tweeting....
 
Aren't people who use twitter called twits?
 
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