Starrfall on 17/7/2009 at 20:04
Facebook provides better information and so is more valuable? I don't think it's a very extreme comment. I think the nature of twitter limits its value in the grand scheme of things.
See the thing is it's not that I don't want to know the information posted on twitter (well, I don't want to know a lot of it) but that I want to know more than twitter can provide.
MY NEEDS ARENT BEING MET HERE OK
Stitch on 17/7/2009 at 20:07
Twitter does one thing an it does it very well. Arguing that a haiku isn't a sonnet seems kind of silly.
Besides, how does Facebook provide better information? They're two completely different things--one is a personal feed, the other is an all-in-one social networking site.
Edit to reflect your edit: my problem with Twitter use isn't the character limit, but instead the fact that people all too often write "tweets" that don't stand on their own. A tweet of "going to get a haircut" is boring but self-contained, whereas "I just can't understand it" makes me see red.
june gloom on 17/7/2009 at 20:09
Quote Posted by Kolya
A waste of time that just helped to organise an uprising for freedom and democracy in Iran. To the point that the American government asked Twitter to hold off their maintenance works.
And if millions of people use it you can roll your eyes as much as you like, it's still significant.
If I were to take a look at internet forums in general, wouldn't I come to the conclusion that they're mostly a waste of time, where lil idiots spout insults at each other? Does that make this forum worse a laser beam as well? (rhetorical question!)
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http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/twitter_creator_on_iran_i)
Starrfall on 17/7/2009 at 20:11
And yet I think there are better ways to accomplish that thing (well maybe not so much to accomplish as to present) It's not comparing a haiku to a sonnet, it's comparing a haiku to another haiku except in this one the author wrote "wonder" instead of "wondering" to make the syllables fit. (and then they yell at you for saying "dude your haiku sucks") And I certainly don't think twitter does anything well enough to call anyone who doesn't think it's awesome neophobic.
I mean I can tell kolya I think twitter is the awesomest thing ever if you want but I'll be lying (again except for shaq - but I think thats a different case)
edit to reflect your edit to reflect my edit: but "going to get a haircut" with pictures I can comment on is less boring. (Also to get pickier and more personal, I don't really like the way twitter is set up functionally for some reason. If there's a button I've missed that'd let me see people's posts to each other all at once I'd start changing my mind.)
heywood on 17/7/2009 at 20:48
Twitter is just an interim solution for mobile blogging. If you've got an old phone, or no data plan, or a web site whose interface isn't suited for mobile use, you can just SMS your blog updates. Not everybody is equipped for Facebooking on their phone... yet.
I think Twitter became a fad because some busy celebs started using it to give a quick shout out to their peeps while waiting at the airport or restaurant, where they couldn't sit down in front of the computer to compose a blog entry.
Starrfall on 17/7/2009 at 21:04
inventing the term "twitterfree" itt
Koki on 17/7/2009 at 21:13
Quote Posted by Stitch
Twitter does one thing an it does it very well.
Yeah, it does the thing nobody needs perfectly.
gunsmoke on 17/7/2009 at 22:32
Quote:
Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful'
:D:D:D
Martin Karne on 18/7/2009 at 01:25
Looking at the red button.
It looks both tempting and dangerous.
