i dare you to summarize this in 140 characters or less. :p
anyway, i agree with most of this -- i use twitter pretty much as a permanent chatroom/linkspam service. :p most of the time i don't even care to update with what i'm doing (which is why i never saw the point of twitter until i realized it could be used this way), i try to post stuff that will get conversation going between friends. if i want something more serious, i move it to lj.
i dare you to summarize this in 140 characters or less Twitter fails as a communication platform. TRUFAX!
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I don't pay attention to what I post to Twitter and I recently decided to stop caring if somebody decides they understand the full extent of what I mean from 140 characters.
Why do you think celebrities took to Twitter like Draco to Harry's cock? the amount of love i have for your based solely on this sentence... IT IS NEVERENDING :DDD
but yeah, i agree completely. i think this is why i never joined twitter - i would be a fantastic listener (i'm seriously the creepy voyeur-ish person at the party, lounging on the couch and watching everyone else :P), but, even on facebook, i don't really use the 'status' option that much. (like the way some people on my list use their fb-statuses in a very twitter-esque manner. although. yeah. i get the feeling the status thing is facebook's reply to twitter :p i forgot my point)
This post has helped me understand why I find it hard to keep up with Twitter as a business platform. I want to post meaningful things - which is possible, though not easy, and I want to interact. I find it strange just to spam the world with chatter. I feel obligated to listen to other people's chatter and find that too much listening is overwhelming. I feel spammed.
It might be nice to use it as a way to chat with friends. I have one friend on Twitter who is extremely chatty, and I just don't get how he does it. But so far, when used for business, it is a lot like a constant advertising program on TV, and the rest is about links to various blogs. If I wanted to follow them all, I had to get paid for reading Twitter, because it would be a full time job.
I think a lot of people who used LJ before Twitter run into the same issue of feeling obligated to read everything on their feed and comment when they can, but there's so much on Twitter that this becomes impossible even despite the brevity Twitter provides.
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anyway, i agree with most of this -- i use twitter pretty much as a permanent chatroom/linkspam service. :p most of the time i don't even care to update with what i'm doing (which is why i never saw the point of twitter until i realized it could be used this way), i try to post stuff that will get conversation going between friends. if i want something more serious, i move it to lj.
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Twitter fails as a communication platform. TRUFAX!
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I don't pay attention to what I post to Twitter and I recently decided to stop caring if somebody decides they understand the full extent of what I mean from 140 characters.
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the amount of love i have for your based solely on this sentence... IT IS NEVERENDING :DDD
but yeah, i agree completely. i think this is why i never joined twitter - i would be a fantastic listener (i'm seriously the creepy voyeur-ish person at the party, lounging on the couch and watching everyone else :P), but, even on facebook, i don't really use the 'status' option that much. (like the way some people on my list use their fb-statuses in a very twitter-esque manner. although. yeah. i get the feeling the status thing is facebook's reply to twitter :p
i forgot my point)
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I think Facebook had the status field before Twitter did, but facebookers started using it as if it were twitter only recently.
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In other words, i concur.
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xD
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It might be nice to use it as a way to chat with friends. I have one friend on Twitter who is extremely chatty, and I just don't get how he does it. But so far, when used for business, it is a lot like a constant advertising program on TV, and the rest is about links to various blogs. If I wanted to follow them all, I had to get paid for reading Twitter, because it would be a full time job.
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