Twitter: and I thought Facebook was inane...
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
Well back in the day if an idea popped into your head and you wanted everyone to know, you had to just shout it out loud so everyone could hear. The problem with this technique was you would be limited to only being able to annoy the people in the local area. That's where Twitter comes in ...
- Rob
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
Christopher Duncan wrote:
is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Only < 1% of twitter users are actually less than 18 years old. :) More than 90% are 25 years and above. [EDIT] Twitter Demographics[^] [/EDIT] So no, it is not a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thoughts. Look at How to demo twitter[^]. If things mentioned in the article do not appeal to you, then do not bother to waste time browsing twitter.
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megaadam wrote:
Why?
C.Duncan has been using Facebook and now Twitter as well. As you can clearly infer from all this, he's having his mid-life crisis - and his intrinsic reaction to it seems to be to metamorphose into a 16 year old girl. Hopefully this will be a temporal phase, and the old cynical radar detector dependent Corvette owner will be back with us soon.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
and his intrinsic reaction to it seems to be to metamorphose into a 16 year old girl
What a stupid reaction. Real men metamorphose into a 19 year old boy having more money than they should.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
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megaadam wrote:
Why?
C.Duncan has been using Facebook and now Twitter as well. As you can clearly infer from all this, he's having his mid-life crisis - and his intrinsic reaction to it seems to be to metamorphose into a 16 year old girl. Hopefully this will be a temporal phase, and the old cynical radar detector dependent Corvette owner will be back with us soon.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkNishant Sivakumar wrote:
radar detector dependent Corvette owner
Have I told you about the new high tech missle launcher I've installed on the hood of the Vette? By the way, what were your GPS coordinates again?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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megaadam wrote:
Why?
C.Duncan has been using Facebook and now Twitter as well. As you can clearly infer from all this, he's having his mid-life crisis - and his intrinsic reaction to it seems to be to metamorphose into a 16 year old girl. Hopefully this will be a temporal phase, and the old cynical radar detector dependent Corvette owner will be back with us soon.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com link -
Christopher Duncan wrote:
is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Only < 1% of twitter users are actually less than 18 years old. :) More than 90% are 25 years and above. [EDIT] Twitter Demographics[^] [/EDIT] So no, it is not a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thoughts. Look at How to demo twitter[^]. If things mentioned in the article do not appeal to you, then do not bother to waste time browsing twitter.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
and his intrinsic reaction to it seems to be to metamorphose into a 16 year old girl
What a stupid reaction. Real men metamorphose into a 19 year old boy having more money than they should.
Personally, I love the idea that Raymond spends his nights posting bad regexs to mailing lists under the pseudonym of Jane Smith. He'd be like a super hero, only more nerdy and less useful. [Trevel]
| FoldWithUs! | sighist | µLaunch - program launcher for server core and hyper-v serverI did that years ago. Hence the first Corvette. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Of course - there's also the 40-somethings typing random thoughts in the hope that it'll make them look cool to their 16-yr-old kids... :rolleyes:
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I sort of suspected that. And then he refers to "a client asked me to". Unfortunately I think he is in the first stage: denial. Hang in there Chris. You gonna make it.
........................ Life is too shor
Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance, social media. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Christopher Duncan wrote:
Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Of course - there's also the 40-somethings typing random thoughts in the hope that it'll make them look cool to their 16-yr-old kids... :rolleyes:
The quickest way to kill social media is for the grownups to show up. Quick! Somebody find me a grownup!
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Anger, denial, bargaining, depression, acceptance, social media. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
radar detector dependent Corvette owner
Have I told you about the new high tech missle launcher I've installed on the hood of the Vette? By the way, what were your GPS coordinates again?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
Christopher Duncan wrote:
By the way, what were your GPS coordinates again?
:-D
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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I've never fully figured it out but people use it to delay-chat with each other in public. It's as if everyone's phone's SMS inboxes were publicly exposed on the www.
Regards, Nish
Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
My latest book : C++/CLI in Action / Amazon.com linkThe digital version of public sewers. The Romans would be so proud.
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Trending topics are least common denominator garbage. Twitter has plenty of value if you are smart enough to figure it out.
jond777 wrote:
if you are smart enough to figure it out.
I think everyone would agree that this pretty much rules me out. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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jond777 wrote:
if you are smart enough to figure it out.
I think everyone would agree that this pretty much rules me out. :)
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
I remember when MySpace came out. My daughter (was 14 or so then) came to me & said, "Dad, can I use the computer to 'check my MySpace'?". I remember saying, "You wanna check your whaaaa??" I have been in IT for 25 years. To this day I still don't understand these social networking sites. It seems that everything you post is visible by damn near everyone else, and it's all mindless nonsense. Now, everyone can see you make a fool of youself, instead of only a select few. Why would anyone wanna do this?
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
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Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics. Yeesh, what drivel. Is there any actual value to Twitter, or is it just a bunch of 16 year olds typing random thought?
Christopher Duncan www.PracticalUSA.com Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes Copywriting Services
Christopher Duncan wrote:
Logged in to Twitter, clicked on some of the trending topics
That's a bit like wandering into a newsagent and picking up magazines at random - really unlikely to hit your interests. better to put some keywords in and find some halfway decent people and follow them. However even that is not going to yield much success as a tweet is just too short to contain meaningful information so yes - pretty inane.
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I remember when MySpace came out. My daughter (was 14 or so then) came to me & said, "Dad, can I use the computer to 'check my MySpace'?". I remember saying, "You wanna check your whaaaa??" I have been in IT for 25 years. To this day I still don't understand these social networking sites. It seems that everything you post is visible by damn near everyone else, and it's all mindless nonsense. Now, everyone can see you make a fool of youself, instead of only a select few. Why would anyone wanna do this?
Everything makes sense in someone's mind
Kevin Marois wrote:
It seems that everything you post is visible by damn near everyone else, and it's all mindless nonsense. Now, everyone can see you make a fool of youself, instead of only a select few. Why would anyone wanna do this?
Someone forgot what it is to be a teenager... That's like 50% of their life. mindless nonsense making you look like a fool.