Twitter: and I thought Facebook was inane...
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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
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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
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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.
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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
Just track him down on the Twitter!
The narrow specialist in the broad sense of the word is a complete idiot in the narrow sense of the word. Advertise here – minimum three posts per day are guaranteed.
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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
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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 hate all of these social networking worthless rubbish. I think twitter gives the average idiots with IQ of may be 40 +/- 5, a chance to tell the world (tweet or twaat or wtfever) about every minutia of their extremely dull and lonely life. This gives them the feeling that they're "socially active", while actually they sit in the toilet for hours, tweeting about their stinky farts. Whether or not the world gives half a shit about their mindless tweets would be a completely different thing to think about. Yeah, there may be this 1% of "interesting" tweets, but I won't give a dead rat's ass to wade through the 99% drivel. I have enough things in my life to have myself engaged with, and I have "real" friends, so I couldn't give a damn about arsebook either.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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The 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
Yeah, our modern innovation is to turn the flow of sewage around 180 degrees! Yay for Progress!
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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
Lord must help you. I once and just one saw Twitter (the time I created my account over there). It is bullshit. I usually create logins with my fake id for the sites that I cannot trust. So I did the same with Twitter and thank God I did that.
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I hate all of these social networking worthless rubbish. I think twitter gives the average idiots with IQ of may be 40 +/- 5, a chance to tell the world (tweet or twaat or wtfever) about every minutia of their extremely dull and lonely life. This gives them the feeling that they're "socially active", while actually they sit in the toilet for hours, tweeting about their stinky farts. Whether or not the world gives half a shit about their mindless tweets would be a completely different thing to think about. Yeah, there may be this 1% of "interesting" tweets, but I won't give a dead rat's ass to wade through the 99% drivel. I have enough things in my life to have myself engaged with, and I have "real" friends, so I couldn't give a damn about arsebook either.
“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell
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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
I use it to follow various well-known people in the developer community: * Scott Guthrie[^] * Scott Hanselman[^] * Ayende Rahien (aka Oren Eini)[^] * Jeff Atwood (of Coding Horror fame)[^] * Joel Spolsky[^] * DHH (creator of Ruby on Rails)[^] * John Resig (creator of jQuery)[^] * etc. I like to see what these people are talking about, in somewhat real-time. It's useful to me as another information source. I use it alongside Google Reader and news sites like Hacker News and Reddit. Sometimes you get links that you otherwise wouldn't get; sometimes you just get the info quicker than you would via blogs/news sites. It works for some people, and it doesn't work for others. If nothing else, I urge you to find and follow some people who are influential to you. Give it a couple of weeks, and if it doesn't work for you, abandon it. YMMV.
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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
I haven't been on twitter very long and already it has been useful in the area of professional networking. I got a job offer, got some valuable info on a framework I use, and got updated on the status of VS2010. I also find that it helps me network with professionals who would be less easy to approach via other contexts, but maybe that's just me. Ignore the drivel, and don't follow people who post it - follow only the people who actually post useful things. And if that narrows it down to nothing for you, then I guess Twitter is not for you. :)