Comments on: Tweet This: Nobody Gives a Fuck

By: chelsea

chelsea — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:41:17 +0000

I use Twitter for a completely different reason than you think,
you think people are just showboating around, being attention “whores” saying “oh look at me, pay attention to me!”
When I twitter something, I honestly don’t expect people to read it and @reply me with ass-kissing messages, I twitter either @replies or information.
Twitter has many other uses than just social networking.
I’ve heard about some of the news stories on TV hours later when they were already linked on Twitter.
I honestly think this post was not fully thought through.
Twitter is not just a bunch of people desperate for attention (although some need it desperately) it’s also people Tweeting to inform, to enlighten and reading tweets to gain knowledge. imho

By: Bob

Bob — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 08:03:59 +0000

Yes, People actually think people care??? hahhah a waste of mind, these sites will be used for people to exhibit sales tastics and better play of human emotion. Be very carefull a warning 2 all!

By: Giuseppe Rosati

Giuseppe Rosati — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 20:12:49 +0000

I could be completely wrong about this, but I personally believe that within 5 years Twitter will cease to exist entirely or will morph into something very different than what it is today. Why? For a few reasons, number one because I agree with you that it is completely and utterly useless and is probably more of a detriment to society than a benefit. And number two because it will continue to have difficulty finding ways to monetize the site (look at the lack of success that facebook is having with monetization). I think Twitter is receiving loads of hype right now because it is an entirely new and innovative concept (and for that it must be commended) used by smart and leading edge early adopters. Unfortunately the other 98% of the world population will have no use for it whatsoever, and when they don’t come around as many expect them to, Twitter will begin to die a slow and painful death.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 01:19:34 +0000

I have to agree that Twitter is about 95% worthless noise, at least with the people I have on my contacts list. There are about 3 or 4 of them that post about 10 times a day with the most boring information. Things like “I’m doing 3 tons of laundry” or just quoting some random song lyrics that don’t really mean anything, but they just thought were cool. For example, today was typical, I came home and had 30 tweets in my twit messages and every single one was completely useless and wouldn’t be even good for a follow up for any conversation I would want to start to connect with them later. I mean w00h00, lets talk about laundry or the local cafe raising the price of a cup by 5 cents cause it’s so interesting. Most of these kinds of posts are self-pleasuring and I’m sure the people following them don’t want to see.

So, yeah, occasionally there is some good information like “this activity is happening” which is a bit better then the tweety twits talking about farting or bowel movements.

The activity tweets are good for a scene/clique group for people to find out about activities, but most of these are purely very casual acquaintance material. They’d bother to invite you directly if they really thought they wanted you there or wanted to be sure you got a message before the activity happened. Some kinds of tweets like “look at this news article” can be useful, also.

So, yeah, Twitter is sometimes useful, but the signal to noise ratio is outrageously bad, it fosters quantity over quality and encourages distraction and multitasking if you get it sent as SMS. Those are my main issues with twitter.

On the plus side, you’ll soon learn which of your friends are self-involved and spew so much garbage that you’ll want to unfollow or block their Tweets very quickly.

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By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 04:26:21 +0000

Thanks for this great post. I also think that Twitter and most Web2.0 coolaids are trash.

And you made fun of Aidan Henry.

I have to add your blog to my AJAX RSS page!!

By: stephane gauvin

stephane gauvin — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:51:56 +0000

microblogs certainly have useful applications. I teach onLine and no other means is as convenient (to act as “social glue”). IM is too evanescent. Mails too one-to-one. Blogs too cumbersome, etc.

LAFD on Twitter is an excellent example of a public service.

Most tweets are pointless. Just don’t subscribe to their authors