I’d deadbolt your doors if I were you. Just to be safe!
Not sure. But if you sit when you pee just so you can tweet, then it makes you a twitter sitter (which is probably just as bad).
About the only value I’ve seen in Twitter so far is when following events as they unfold, such as the Boston bombings. And the irony is that you can often follow those tweets without actually using Twitter, as was the case last Thursday night when the Boston Globe on their Boston.com website had a page that was just streaming tweets from their reporters out in the field.
Then again, I don’t bother with Facebook either, so I guess I’m just not “in touch” with the social media fad anyway. Somehow I’m surviving.
I follow a bunch of programmers and people into code art. They frequently post updates to their repositories there and/or links to other interesting projects. It’s a great way to grow your peripheral vision for communities that interest you. For example, I follow a lot of indie game developers and discover, through Twitter, a lot of games that I may otherwise never have discovered. That said, it takes a while to build up a good list of people to follow.
Twitter is good for mobile. It’s easier than finding a single website to follow or using an aggregator. I’ve tried a bunch of news aggregator apps for iphone, but Twitter is still my personal news choice. I actually don’t have any followers or tweet, I just use it to consume news and occasional funny tweets.
I think we had a post for listing good Twitter handles to follow, but it didn’t live long.
I suppose I would need to get a phone with internet before I could tweet. I think I can live without it, but if it is your thing feel free.
I do a decent amount of my interaction with twitter via the desktop. It’s definitely easier to click through to “full story” links on a real browser than anything in the mobile space.
Heh. That’s so cute that you think deadbolts help.
I saw a Twitter post the other day that made me laugh in it’s truth and simplicity. It was something like :
“Twitter is like Game of Thrones in that there are 140 characters and there is always something terrible happening.”
Actually the opposite, which is why i prefer ‘real’ face to face communication over anything else. In general i have little interest in many of the current trends the internet has allowed, it seems like a manufactured market place where clever sales people can make a bunch of money, over the actual benefit of what their ‘service’ provides compared to what my current technologies of choice can offer (a phone to talk to people that are not in my location, a games message board to keep up with gaming news etc).
The caveat on that is that i also completely see the value and importance of the internet and completely get the value to building a better global society (via wider awareness of issues etc) through it’s use. If you can filter out the crap it is one of the most awesome inventions of the modern era imho.
Sure if you have the internet then facebook and twitter is free (at a cost in terms of privacy etc), but yeah for me i have no need of those services, my life manages just fine without them and the downsides i’ve experienced with them are not worth my time dealing with, but each persons levels of tolerance are different. But as Fishbreaths venn diagram kind of illustrates, even if tongue in cheek, much of this new technology is most often appreciated/used/exploited by what i’d consider damaged personalities, which sounds harsher than i mean, but yeah there is some dirty truth in it.
Also the more me remove ourselves from our humanity via technology, the more danger we have of losing an important sense of our balance and place in the world, and from that many of the big problems we see across our modern societies arise. So yeah technology is awesome, but it is also not awesome.
Actually it is a bit like Usenet, except for the clever 140 word limit - stops people banging on like they used to do on Usenet.
I want some awesome twitter feeds…
Sokwoo Lee is that you?
when I stream a game, I tweet the link to the stream. That’s about the limit of my tweets
Apparently, it’s the place where you should boast of knocking cyclists off their bike…
“I knocked a cyclist off his bike. I have right of way, he doesn’t even pay road tax”
Would you be surprised to hear that the tweet went viral and that, before long, she got this in reply?
The article linked above is worth reading. Because not only was she not kidding (the cyclist has come forward and been interviewed by the BBC), but she also posted pictures of other examples of her driving skills on her Facebook page:
Ms Way was quickly identified from her Facebook page and the police were sent other examples of her poor driving: she had taken taking photographs of herself tailgating other motorists, and even photographed her speedometer showing a speed of 95mph.
Or maybe that’s an object lesson in how NOT to use Twitter and social media for you. I get confused so easily…
Wendelius
I have to assume that the number of people per capita too stupid to live has remained more or less constant over the millennia* and it’s just that social media and global news have made it easier to learn about them.
*Goddamn it, chrome, millennia is how you spell it, as is capita. Fucking incorporate /usr/dict already, and stop with this emergent usage dictionary bullshit.
I’m pretty sure that value is fixed at “1”.
Ah. Yes. Indeed. The number of people too stupid to live per capita is hopefully fractionally less than one, however.
Stop saying “per capita”. That means “per person” (literally, “per head”)-- you’re saying “number of people per person”, which makes no sense no matter what you surround it with.
What you’re probably trying to say is, “The percentage of people too stupid to live has remained more or less constant.”
My dear Zylon, “the number of people too stupid to live” is hopefully less than the total number of people, so the phrase does have some meaning, even if it is admittedly very awkward and clumsy, and indeed only was written by accident in the first place.