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Twitter: I just don't get it..
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No. You two FIND it to be that.
I find it to be very usefull. I don't follow a single celebrity. I use it like an RSS aggrigator, that I can talk back to.
Today - I've posed questions about Mars rovers, and the official twitter feed ( I know who that is ) and a Mars Rover driver, and someone else all on the Mars Rover team have all chipped in with ideas and suggestions and they've gone off to have a look at what some friends and I found.
Last month - I was asking questions of one of our BIS government ministers - I ended up getting a phone call from a government department to fill me in the details of what I was asking about.
And actually - I lied - I do follow a celebrity - Adam Savage from myth-busters - who posts cool pictures from the set when they're making a new series.
I find it to be very usefull. I don't follow a single celebrity. I use it like an RSS aggrigator, that I can talk back to.
Today - I've posed questions about Mars rovers, and the official twitter feed ( I know who that is ) and a Mars Rover driver, and someone else all on the Mars Rover team have all chipped in with ideas and suggestions and they've gone off to have a look at what some friends and I found.
Last month - I was asking questions of one of our BIS government ministers - I ended up getting a phone call from a government department to fill me in the details of what I was asking about.
And actually - I lied - I do follow a celebrity - Adam Savage from myth-busters - who posts cool pictures from the set when they're making a new series.
As is making sweeping disparaging statements about things that simply don't do it for you.
P.S. djellison - I didn't know Adam Savage was on there. I bet he is an interesting one. Thanks for the heads up on a new person to follow.
http://twitter.com/donttrythis - I also used to follow Grant - but he was posting too much and was a bit annoying.
I found him, in spite of twitter's not-so-fantastic search feature.
Thanks though. I know what you mean, some people just have bad tweeting etiquette. Ha! there's a sentence I never thought I'd write.
Pretty much sums it up.
Only if you follow their "What are you doing?" question like sheep.
Others have modified it's use, beyond what the creators were looking for.
You can send messages to people not in your friends list on Facebook.
Recently I tried hunting down an extension for an old application suite I still use, I needed the source code and stumbled upon the coders Facebook account. It was private so I sent him a message, the source was dead and buried but nevermind (he was also a friend of a MR regular too, small world!).
I didn't get it, either, for a long time. But spend a little time with it, hook up with some friends, start following people and organisations that interest you, and before too long, you'll have more useful information and interaction than you can deal with. And some good jokes.
Personally, I don't have a great deal to say on there. I'm a bit private, not organised about it, nor do I use it as a business tool... but it's a way of keeping in touch with people and news with very little commitment (if that's what you want), unlike a FaceBook page or emails.
There's a very good reason why it's taken off so quickly, and that's because it's powerful and easy to use. Those who dismiss it out of hand are only depriving themselves of something that is extremely useful.
I follow a bunch of nice people here from MacRumors, some other friends, some news and political commentary stuff, some music news... and of course, David Lynch.
Personally, I don't have a great deal to say on there. I'm a bit private, not organised about it, nor do I use it as a business tool... but it's a way of keeping in touch with people and news with very little commitment (if that's what you want), unlike a FaceBook page or emails.
There's a very good reason why it's taken off so quickly, and that's because it's powerful and easy to use. Those who dismiss it out of hand are only depriving themselves of something that is extremely useful.
I follow a bunch of nice people here from MacRumors, some other friends, some news and political commentary stuff, some music news... and of course, David Lynch.
I still get people following me even though I have never posted anything at all. I taught a seminar once on facebook/twitter.
This baffles me. People like to text, right? They like to mms, right? Twitter lets you do this for free. Just get a good app, and it's free texting. You do not have to make statements like "i am on the toilet" or "i am sitting down"... That's just that stupid freaking commercial that people see that makes them think that that is all Twitter is good for.
I must admit - Stephen Fry is possibly in my top-5-people-on-the-face-of-the-planet list. But I gave up following him. Too much, too much.
Then don't use it.
Simples!
Or were you just trying to spread your spammy signature links around with a few random pointless posts?