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Ray Cassick

So, anyone using it? Anyone able to point me to any advantages of it? Is it really used as much as 'they' want you to belive?

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Vincent Curry

Yup, there are a few people using it... Twitter accounts of Obama, Britney Spears hacked[^]

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Jim Crafton

Only a twat would twitter, tweet, or twitscend. I've got better things to do with my free time.

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Ray Cassick

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Ray Cassick

I think I can see some benefit of it as a networking tool though. If you have a bunch of people that actually care about what you are doing (not that I say I do, but you never know) then it looks like it can be a useful broadcast mechanism.

Jim Crafton wrote:

better things to do with my free time

I think that has more to do with the tools used than anything. If more apps had built-in support for it then you could tweet without even trying :) I am still getting used to that word...

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Peter Andersen CodeLean

I've seen people write stuff like "This is going to be bigger than Facebook" on their twitter profile. Amazing! I don't get it..

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hairy_hats

Updated for 2009: Try everything once, except incest, Morris dancing, and Twitter.

Todd Smith

Think of it as an RSS reader for 1-liners. Messages are capped at 160 characters I believe. "Hey I just got a CP MVP award!" "Saw Tropical Thunder last night and it rocked!" "ASP.NET MVC final has been released see http://blah for details" "Santa is a lie!"

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vaghelabhavesh

Ray Cassick wrote:

Anyone able to point me to any advantages of it?

Yes, it was the very first source[^] of the news during the Mumbai attacks.

benjymous

Yup - it's pretty much replaced my blog now for simple daily "what I'm up to" posts intended to keep friends and family informed of my doings. It's also far more convenient to post a "hey, this link is interesting" style post, than write a full blog post containing just links (and it's simple enough to integrate with an existing web page and show a "most recent twitter message" box) The big problem with Twitter seems to be that people feel compelled to subscribe to everyone under the sun, meaning their page gets full of lots of spam (and the half-conversation effect, where you subscribe to only one party in a two party conversation) - if you keep your subscriptions to a minimum of interesting sources, it's far more interesting!

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Russell Jones

It seems that the big new thing will always require less thought and action on behalf of the participants than the big last thing as this ensures that the users don't notice how useless the thing really is.

Shog9 0

Have you ever used an IM program, like GChat or AIM? Then you kinda know what Twitter is about. See, one day, someone was sitting around, chatting up a storm, and suddenly stopped and thought,

"Whoa... This would be great, if only I could be talking to everyone instead of just one person - The World should not be deprived of the wisdom dripping from my fingers. Oh, and I shouldn't have to listen to the dull replies of everyone else either, unless I really want to, and already know the person replying. And everything I write should be limited to 140 characters. Because I need to compose using my cell phone while I'm driving."

And The World replied, "Squeeeeeeeeeeeee!"

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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

Judah Gabriel Himango

I didn't get it either, and said so in a Lounge post last year. Now that I've been using it quite a bit, it's useful. I've found many times I wish to post a link to friends, write a short blog post, or a quick rant about something. Twitter is for that. I also use it to keep up on what friends and family are doing. It's not for everybody.

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BillWoodruff

Twitter is the equivalent free sample of crack cocaine that Big Brother is handing out to school kids in order to lead them into addiction whose side effect is the attention span of a gnat. best, Bill

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Jon Sagara

I use it to keep my finger on the pulse of the .NET community. People post a lot of interesting links.

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Steve Mayfield

Because I need to compose using my cell phone while I'm driving. which wouldn't work in the places have laws prohibiting reading or writing cell phone text while driving (an addition to hands free cell only laws)

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Shog9 0

No, it works better there - while the cop is dragging you out of the car, you get to Twitter about it!

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You're right. These facts that you've laid out totally contradict the wild ramblings that I pulled off the back of cornflakes packets.

Jim Crafton

Well what's wrong with email? If you need something a bit more realtime, then there's IM. Or if you need to truly "broadcast" there's IRC. Exactly what problem does Twatter really solve? Other than serve as a yet-another-implementation to an already solved problem. Hell if you think about it, it's just a blog that a whole bunch of people can subscribe to via an RSS feed that gets updated in real time.

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Jim Crafton

Steve Mayfield wrote:

which wouldn't work in the places have laws prohibiting reading or writing cell phone text while driving (an addition to hands free cell only laws)

If only those laws were inforced. I can't tell you how many times I've see idiots in their SUVs driving around oblivious to traffic while blabbing on a cell phone. Makes me wish for a light saber.

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Dan Neely

Gimmie a .30 cal machine gun. I want standoff range when blasting the idiots off the road.

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