Twitter anyone? - Page 4

Zerai · 03-17-2009, 06:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Tripamang

ICQ? IRC.. it had group chats, private chats, encrypted chats. File transfers, file bots, trivia bots...

ICQ was trash imo, fucking trash.

I used both. I consider them seperate tools. ICQ (and other IM tools) are more for single person communication. No worries about servers and shit like that, just sign on and done.

IRC to me is more a group interface.

kaxfenix · 03-17-2009, 07:38 AM

do you use in game emotes in your tweets to, like you do on this msg board? It's like pointless on top of pointless

Zeste · 03-17-2009, 08:38 AM

I think it's pretty funny how many times "industry contacts" has come up, like all of a sudden if you don't Twitter you aren't gonna get hired by your high powered Tweeting prospective employers!

Employers should actually look for people with facebooks/twitter accounts, so they know who to not hire and/or monitor. They should check to see if you are tweeting during work hours.

"Johnson, I see you were twittering at 10:31 am, when you were supposed to be working on the Gleemonex account."

"Well boss, some people in the industry just tweeted about som-"

"You're fucking fired."

@Johnson: omg I just got fired!!!11eleventy!

PerritoBites · 03-17-2009, 08:40 AM

I almost never use twitter as an "this is what I am doing now". I use it to micro blog... basically as an RSS feed to know what is going on. For example... I look at Leo Laporte's show and he sends a twit whenever he starts streaming new content. Other podcasters do this as well... I have a couple of Techblog websites I follow as well so it does work out like an RSS feed... but in a different way. I try to read all the posts on my actual RSS feed, I don't do that on twitter. Twitter is just a "what is going on right now" sort of thing.

The posts I make are mostly Re-twits of interesting stuff I see or things I am making that are interesting or that might require interaction... Instead of making a post in FoH and asking people for help, I just twit it

Twitter is not just people saying what they ate for breakfast.

-----

Anyways... anyone here use twitter as a general blog and not as a personal blog? I'll add you!

Dumar · 03-17-2009, 08:40 AM

yeah, i'd really like to know what insight a potential employer would gain from your tweeter account. it's not a blog; it's one sentence updates.

Zarcath · 03-17-2009, 09:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Dumar

yeah, i'd really like to know what insight a potential employer would gain from your tweeter account. it's not a blog; it's one sentence updates.

Find out if they're raging alcoholics? immature? dangerous? Because you can certainly glean enough about a person from 1 interview than you can from a weeks worth of twitter posts.

Soygen · 03-17-2009, 09:48 AM

I created a Twitter account a few weeks ago just to check it out and within 10 minutes of joining, I had 2 people "following" me. I thought, hey this is kind of neat. I click on their profiles and it's some spam account trying to get me to buy ringtones or something. Yeah...

Northerner · 03-17-2009, 03:27 PM

I think Twitter would have wider adoption if the terminology didn't sound quite so fucking retarded.

Personally I find that between email, text, IM and actual phone calls/VM, I am more than capable of keeping in communication with people. I'll be honest, at some point more connectivity stops producing more communication and for me I think Twitter is past that point. If it works for you then of course that's great but I think I'll pass even if it does make me look like a dinosaur.

Dumar · 03-17-2009, 03:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Northerner

I think Twitter would have wider adoption if the terminology didn't sound quite so fucking retarded.

Personally I find that between email, text, IM and actual phone calls/VM, I am more than capable of keeping in communication with people. I'll be honest, at some point more connectivity stops producing more communication and for me I think Twitter is past that point. If it works for you then of course that's great but I think I'll pass even if it does make me look like a dinosaur.

twitter allows you to be seen communicating with other people. you don't show up at club by yourself. you go with others so people there can see you conversing with them. it's really the same principle.

Murr · 03-17-2009, 04:23 PM

I think it's useful as a many-to-one update feed relationship. I can follow Christopher Walken and John Hodgman and other interesting people who I happen to find interesting whereas on something like facebook they wouldn't be able to broadcast in the same way.

Of course it gets abused by people talking about the consistency of the shit they just took. So do text messages, email, forums.. it doesn't mean the tech itself is stupid. I do find the "fad" around it right now annoying, but the site can be interesting and/or useful. I got a few games that broke street date by searching twitter for keywords and reading some tweets about people that got it early themselves and going to whatever store they went to.

Aetos · 03-17-2009, 04:48 PM

just curious but how is twitter any different from facebook's status update?

Northerner · 03-17-2009, 05:08 PM

Well, it isn't quite just a status update. I'll freely admit that it is excellent for one-to-many dissemination of real-time information or even many-to-many in a circle. Most people don't really seem to use it that way though but more as a micro-blog type of thing or even a log of status updates essentially.

It has potential as tech, I just don't know that I like what it is in essence. I really just don't care what people are doing at all times and I sure as hell don't want them knowing what I am doing at all times. I'm far to private for that and even with pretty close friends. Hell, I log on my PS3 as an alt user often enough.

Screamfeeder · 03-17-2009, 06:11 PM

People I have decided to not hire because of information on their MySpace/Facebook/Twitter: 20+

People I have decided to hire because of information on their MySpace/Facebook/Twitter: 0

GL

Mario Speedwagon · 03-17-2009, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Screamfeeder

People I have decided to not hire because of information on their MySpace/Facebook/Twitter: 20+

People I have decided to hire because of information on their MySpace/Facebook/Twitter: 0

GL

This. Twitter is just one more way to get yourself fired, and most companies have firing because of facebook posts down pat already.

Zeste · 03-17-2009, 07:24 PM

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Originally Posted by @cuppy

# I want some corn beef and cabbage tonight...with gravy and potatoes...i wonder where I can get some. =(

13 minutes ago from TweetDeck

So I sorta get it now. Twitter is like a giant IRC that people can sit and post to all day from their phones, only you can only read 1 person at a times chat, and you have to sit and fucking figure out where the "@person" conversations are coming from.

03-17-2009, 08:38 AM	#48 (permalink)
Zeste Oooooooooooohhhh, yeeeeeeeeeesssssss Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 4,378 +69 Internets	I think it's pretty funny how many times "industry contacts" has come up, like all of a sudden if you don't Twitter you aren't gonna get hired by your high powered Tweeting prospective employers! Employers should actually look for people with facebooks/twitter accounts, so they know who to not hire and/or monitor. They should check to see if you are tweeting during work hours. "Johnson, I see you were twittering at 10:31 am, when you were supposed to be working on the Gleemonex account." "Well boss, some people in the industry just tweeted about som-" "You're fucking fired." @Johnson: omg I just got fired!!!11eleventy! __________________

03-17-2009, 04:23 PM	#55 (permalink)
Murr Token Gnome Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: San Diego, CA Posts: 2,089 +17 Internets	I think it's useful as a many-to-one update feed relationship. I can follow Christopher Walken and John Hodgman and other interesting people who I happen to find interesting whereas on something like facebook they wouldn't be able to broadcast in the same way. Of course it gets abused by people talking about the consistency of the shit they just took. So do text messages, email, forums.. it doesn't mean the tech itself is stupid. I do find the "fad" around it right now annoying, but the site can be interesting and/or useful. I got a few games that broke street date by searching twitter for keywords and reading some tweets about people that got it early themselves and going to whatever store they went to. __________________ rogue \| mage

03-17-2009, 04:48 PM	#56 (permalink)
Aetos Registered User Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: CT Posts: 514 -29 Internets	just curious but how is twitter any different from facebook's status update? __________________

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03-17-2009, 07:38 AM	#47 (permalink)
kaxfenix Registered User Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 153 -29 Internets	do you use in game emotes in your tweets to, like you do on this msg board? It's like pointless on top of pointless

03-17-2009, 08:40 AM	#49 (permalink)
PerritoBites （￣ー￣） Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: PR, UY, ROC Posts: 2,507 -20 Internets	I almost never use twitter as an "this is what I am doing now". I use it to micro blog... basically as an RSS feed to know what is going on. For example... I look at Leo Laporte's show and he sends a twit whenever he starts streaming new content. Other podcasters do this as well... I have a couple of Techblog websites I follow as well so it does work out like an RSS feed... but in a different way. I try to read all the posts on my actual RSS feed, I don't do that on twitter. Twitter is just a "what is going on right now" sort of thing. The posts I make are mostly Re-twits of interesting stuff I see or things I am making that are interesting or that might require interaction... Instead of making a post in FoH and asking people for help, I just twit it Twitter is not just people saying what they ate for breakfast. ----- Anyways... anyone here use twitter as a general blog and not as a personal blog? I'll add you!

03-17-2009, 09:48 AM	#52 (permalink)
Soygen 100% Pure Soy Monk Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ft. Lauderdale, FL Posts: 7,447 +107 Internets	I created a Twitter account a few weeks ago just to check it out and within 10 minutes of joining, I had 2 people "following" me. I thought, hey this is kind of neat. I click on their profiles and it's some spam account trying to get me to buy ringtones or something. Yeah...

03-17-2009, 03:27 PM	#53 (permalink)
Northerner Shiny Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Calgary Posts: 1,761	I think Twitter would have wider adoption if the terminology didn't sound quite so fucking retarded. Personally I find that between email, text, IM and actual phone calls/VM, I am more than capable of keeping in communication with people. I'll be honest, at some point more connectivity stops producing more communication and for me I think Twitter is past that point. If it works for you then of course that's great but I think I'll pass even if it does make me look like a dinosaur.

03-17-2009, 05:08 PM	#57 (permalink)
Northerner Shiny Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Calgary Posts: 1,761	Well, it isn't quite just a status update. I'll freely admit that it is excellent for one-to-many dissemination of real-time information or even many-to-many in a circle. Most people don't really seem to use it that way though but more as a micro-blog type of thing or even a log of status updates essentially. It has potential as tech, I just don't know that I like what it is in essence. I really just don't care what people are doing at all times and I sure as hell don't want them knowing what I am doing at all times. I'm far to private for that and even with pretty close friends. Hell, I log on my PS3 as an alt user often enough.

03-17-2009, 06:11 PM	#58 (permalink)
Screamfeeder I MAEK ART!! Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 2,923 +167 Internets	People I have decided to not hire because of information on their MySpace/Facebook/Twitter: 20+ People I have decided to hire because of information on their MySpace/Facebook/Twitter: 0 GL