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Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: shmokes on March 24, 2012, 07:23:05 pm ---Twitter is so much worse. Twitter is just facebook minus every potentially useful feature. I don't get it.

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Here is social networking as I see it in a nutshell shmokes....  There are people like you and me, who prefer to actually talk to people one on one either in person, on the phone, or in a forum like this one.  These people want to converse, exchange ideas and have a legitmate discussion.

Then there are other people who only want to communicate on a very superficial level....  they want to give the illusion of having many interpersonal connections without all the pesky interaction and meaningful conversation.

 Twitter is the pan-ultimate expression of this.  Someone can post a tweet about an event in their life as if they are talking to someone but in reality they aren't talking to anyone in particular.  It's the real world equivelent of going to the top of a building in the middle of the night and screaming "I LOVE _____!"
On the flip side people that have no relationship with you at all can wander in and post comments as if you wanted their opinion, they know the poster enough to give a valid opinion or anyone cares.  It's the equivelent of yelling back to our rooftop screamer "NOBODY CARES!  SHUT UP!"

If you read some actual twitter feeds, be they from famous people or not, you'll notice that my examples aren't much of an exaggeration in terms of the content of a typical tweet.

I think it's a fairly good observation, but of course that's just my opinion. 

knave:
On occasion I get a tweet from some local businesses that they are hosting a cool event I may want to attend. that is the only use I have found for Twitter.

dextercf:
About twitter.. I used it to calm my curious side today.
As I was riding the bus on my way home, we where "pushed aside" by 4 firetrucks and a ambulance. I was of course curious as to what had happen, so I grabbed my phone and logged on to the local newspapers website. Nothing.
Sendt a quick text to my brother in law, who are working as a supervisor on the emergency center (911).
Checked facebook and posted a question if somebody knew something, then logged on twitter and there I was informed by the local police departments twitterfeed (to which I subscribe, or follow as is the twitter lingo).
Even before my brother in law replied, I have gotten the information through twitter.

Twitter was also quite usefull, alongside facebook, when we had the now called "22. July event" which you might have hurd about (link here). Communications, vital, was supplied to the people involved. Also used twitter and facebook to recruite blood donations and other kinds of help that was needed.

But yeah, aside from this. Twitter is kinda rubish in the daily.
There are quite a few people here in Norway worth following, and about 90% of them are everyday people giving jokes and random stuff that cracks me up from time to time.

yotsuya:
I follow writers and news outlets on Twitter, and it's very useful. I don't tweet or follow regular people on it, though. That's what Facebook is for.

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