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rogermugs · Mar 4, 2008, 12:32 AM

At first I thought, this is the dumbest idea i've ever heard of... why would anyone care about this? Then i started posting during class one day and the next thing you know I have people following me.
I never say anything of any value.

noone I know follows me... but I just keep posting because people are "following".... although if they're anything like me they may just follow me so I'll follow them and then turn off notification... but then whats the point?

I'm curious if any of you have anything worthwhile to say... gimme your username and I'll see if i can follow...

rogermugs - on twitter... what about ya'll?

Twitter / rogermugs

Peter · Mar 4, 2008, 02:35 AM

no, sick of twitters instability.

RAILhead · Mar 4, 2008, 06:13 AM

I did while it when it first started, but now it's just another annoying way for people to quip at one another.

Dakar the Fourth · Mar 4, 2008, 07:14 AM

Nope. I believe there was a thread started on this about a year ago if you're interested to read those responses.

Atheist · Mar 4, 2008, 07:39 AM

Looks like yet another way to waste time.

osiris · Mar 4, 2008, 08:09 AM

No, I don't have twitter. I have armed couriers deliver my information instantly.

Oisín · Mar 4, 2008, 08:12 AM

Do I “talk rapidly and at length in an idle or trivial way”? Yes, constantly (this should hardly come as a surprise to most people).

Do I own a Twitter account? No way in hell.

zro · Mar 4, 2008, 08:44 AM

Nope. Never saw the point and I sure have no need that it fills.

Kenneth · Mar 4, 2008, 12:06 PM

I do. Unlimited SMS plan is mandatory.

Railroader · Mar 4, 2008, 05:14 PM

Did.

Don't.

Won't.

Chuckit · Mar 4, 2008, 05:27 PM

I read a few people's Twitter logs occasionally, but I don't have a Twitter account myself.

rogermugs · Mar 4, 2008, 05:37 PM

"I don't own a cell phone or a pager [nor do I twitter]. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me they just say "Mitch," and I say "What?" and turn my head slightly." - mitch hedberg

-you just reminded me of this

Chuckit · Mar 4, 2008, 05:50 PM

I don't really feel like I have anything useful to say in 140 characters and prefer not to create useless chatter.

rogermugs · Mar 30, 2008, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

I don't really feel like I have anything useful to say in 140 characters and prefer not to create useless chatter.

character count = 114....
would you consider this post of yours to be useless?

OwlBoy · Mar 30, 2008, 02:25 PM

Originally Posted by rogermugs

character count = 114....
would you consider this post of yours to be useless?

BAM OWNED!

Oh, and I do use twitter. I be OwlBoy there.

-Owl

BlueSky · Mar 30, 2008, 02:35 PM

Twitter will be the final reason God decides to destroy Earth on account of too much useless noise.

Just flicked a booger across the room. It was awesome.

Jawbone54 · Mar 30, 2008, 02:52 PM

Yeahhhh...I Twitter. A bit.

Twitter...

scaught · Mar 30, 2008, 03:07 PM

What I want is to be able to send a picture and a bit of text from my iphone to a webpage like twitter. Someone make that happen and I'll probably even pay for it.

Kenneth · Mar 30, 2008, 04:15 PM

If you subscribe to the MacBreak Weekly Podcast, you will hear the mentioning of twitter many many times.

Mithras · Mar 30, 2008, 04:18 PM

I use MoodBlast to simultaneously update Twitter, Facebook, and my iChat & Skype statuses. It's the way this sort of thing should be done

Chuckit · Mar 30, 2008, 04:34 PM

Originally Posted by rogermugs

character count = 114....
would you consider this post of yours to be useless?

An excellent point and well-made. But that post was just a reply to your post, which was a lot more than 140 characters. If all posts were 140 or less, or if I were expected to come up with my own 140-character posts ex nihilo, I don't imagine I would have a lot to say — much like with Twitter. (For instance, this post is more than double that limit, and it's still pretty light on content.)

Mithras · Mar 30, 2008, 04:45 PM

For sale: baby shoes, never worn.

Oisín · Mar 30, 2008, 06:31 PM

Originally Posted by scaught

What I want is to be able to send a picture and a bit of text from my iphone to a webpage like twitter. Someone make that happen and I'll probably even pay for it.

Flickr.

Helmling · Mar 30, 2008, 06:38 PM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

An excellent point and well-made. But that post was just a reply to your post, which was a lot more than 140 characters. If all posts were 140 or less, or if I were expected to come up with my own 140-character posts ex nihilo, I don't imagine I would have a lot to say — much like with Twitter. (For instance, this post is more than double that limit, and it's still pretty light on content.)

I love how you made a point of making sure this post was more than 140 characters.

Jawbone54 · Mar 31, 2008, 12:03 AM

Originally Posted by Chuckit

An excellent point and well-made. But that post was just a reply to your post, which was a lot more than 140 characters. If all posts were 140 or less, or if I were expected to come up with my own 140-character posts ex nihilo, I don't imagine I would have a lot to say — much like with Twitter. (For instance, this post is more than double that limit, and it's still pretty light on content.)

Admit it. You were had.

Chuckit · Mar 31, 2008, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by Helmling

I love how you made a point of making sure this post was more than 140 characters.

Heh, I honestly didn't. If I were just stretching for >140 characters, I wouldn't have overshot it by like two and a half times. Like I said, his post was awesome and it made his point well — you can fit useful content into 140 characters. But I still don't think I could generally convey a lot of interesting information that way.

Twitter version: Not everything is a pithy riposte.