Twitter.....?
Can someone explain to me what twittering is?
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Informing random people on the interwebz what you had for dinner.
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Pretty much. It's only any use if you're a celebrity.
It enables celebrities to talk with their fans on any subject whatsoever. But for normal folk, it's rather pointless. |
Is that not blogging?
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It's blogging in short, tiny bursts.
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Blogging is like the "Try me!" button on a toy. They're only on the popular ones and most of them time they don't even work.
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It’s a micro-blogging service. There are other micro-blogging services, like Laconica and Identi.ca, but Twitter is the biggest and most well-known. You use it to submit short messages of 160 characters or fewer. This is the standard number of characters allowed in an SMS, and it’s easy to submit a message to Twitter via text message.
The nature of the messages you send is completely up to you. Most people describe things their doing or thoughts they have that they’d like to share with those that ‘follow’ them, i.e. subscribe to their messages. This can be useful for informing people if you’re going on holiday, or being evacuated from a hurricane, or publicizing how impressed you are with a new piece of technology, or a film, or the weather. Whatever. If you use the status feature on Facebook, you’re already microblogging. My Facebook status automatically updates when I submit a ‘tweet’ to Twitter, because I don’t see the point in having them differ or manually updating them both. There are other quasi-microblogging platforms about. MSN personal messages are a good example, and if I could have that update automatically from my Twitter account too, I’d be pleased. Some other uses of Twitter: companies and organizations can keep their customers and supporters informed of events, special offers, new products and such. My university’s computer and library services have accounts that publish details of closures, downtime and new exam timetables. If you have the know-how, you can hook up various parts of your house to automatically update their own Twitter accounts so you can, for instance, be informed of every 10 gallons of water you use, if a window has been left open, what appliances you’ve left plugged in, whether your plants need watering. In short, microblogging is a powerful and versatile platform. Not everyone will want to use it, but I personally love it. It’s like RSS for thoughts, and its application is limited only by your imagination (and ability to keep messages short). |
It's like a microblog or texting.
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I'll stick with trolling others' Facebook status changes thanks.
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Alexfili, you followed this:
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Be fair, OANST. There’s only three minutes between our posts. Alex was probably typing up his when I posted mine.
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For you, it's more like Titter.
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If you shat a different shade of brown than you did yesterday, there are people who want to know so you should put it on Twitter. Having said that, I do have a Twitter account myself but most of the time I just put messages on there related to my blog, like announcing new posts and stuff like that.
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Although, I'm actually more amused by the idea that it took more than three minutes to write that. |
I occasionally start doing something midway through a post and come back, hit the send key and find my post is now stupid and/or offensive.
It's how I got my infraction don'tchaknow. |
Yes, yes. I'm sorry.
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Extremely, I know.
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* Maybe you deserve the Fail Whale |
bebo, twitter, Myspace, its all the same.
All a compleate waste of time. |
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Any joke that was there has been killed by our discussing it. |
Thank you for underestimating my sense of humour and killing my joke in one fell swoop. xxx
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You're welcome.
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i agree with crashpunk. complete bollocks.
what is it? i know really, don't start fucking explaining it. |
great another excuse to text message, so I suppose twitter is for those who are too freakin lazy to blog, and blogging is lazy to begin with. BAH!
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You could have just googled it.
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its a her.
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Tarp?
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