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2 edits | Re: Twitter Schmitter.... Twitter is one of those things where I understand completely how some people could be repulsed by it. Incessant information flowing everywhere, constantly. Most of it by people who have nothing particularly interesting to say.
As somebody who traffics in information though, I have to say I've found it useful -- despite the fact I couldn't understand what it was for initially.
At this point, every single major ISP has a Twitter presence, so getting questions answered has gotten easier, which is great. It also does a great job giving these massive, seemingly apathetic companies a very real human face, which I also think is great. | |
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| Re: Twitter Schmitter.... said by Karl Bode  :Well, you do get feedback though. It's just different. Right, but you can totally ignore it if you so choose and it doesn't really screw with "your" timeline.
For example, if I @ reply you from my Twitter account, no one but you can see that, unless you choose to @reply to my @reply and even then, your followers can only see your @reply, not the original comment.
It's a great platform for companies to distribute critical information and for self-centered celebrities to make sure they stay at the center of attention. (ha)
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2 edits | Re: Twitter Schmitter.... All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. You'll see the idea of instantaneous info exchange just incorporated across apps. I also expect in short order, corporations will greatly restrict what their employees can say and/or do via Twitter because there's PR risk involved in acting like a human being and speaking your mind (imagine the horror of that!  ).
Still, where Twitter is right now, there's value in the info being exchanged. Especially for bloggers -- given there's countless corporate employees who are chatterboxes and give up info you couldn't otherwise obtain from traditional support and/or PR. | |
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| Re: Twitter Schmitter.... said by Karl Bode :All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. I expect in short order, corporations will greatly restrict what their employees can say and/or do via Twitter because there's PR risk involved in acting like a human being and speaking your mind. Still, where Twitter is right now, there's value in the info being exchanged. Especially for bloggers -- given there's countless corporate employees who are chatterboxes and give up info you couldn't otherwise obtain from traditional support and/or PR. I totally agree. I very, very rarely post on Twitter, but I do follow several companies and people I enjoy hearing from. I think the fact that others can't clutter up the page is what makes it so valuable. You don't have to worry about the signal-to-noise ratio ... it's all signal.
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| said by Karl Bode :All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. You'll see the idea of instantaneous info exchange just incorporated across apps. I also expect in short order, corporations will greatly restrict what their employees can say and/or do via Twitter because there's PR risk involved in acting like a human being and speaking your mind (imagine the horror of that! ). Still, where Twitter is right now, there's value in the info being exchanged. Especially for bloggers -- given there's countless corporate employees who are chatterboxes and give up info you couldn't otherwise obtain from traditional support and/or PR. I hope corporations are smart enough to only allow media relations/PR employees to use twitter. PR disasters, vengeful employees saying bad stuff on purpose to screw over the company, employees handing out proprietary trade information (like admitting they a policy of no capital investment and redlining), employees defaming customers, unresponsiveness being turned by the blogosphere into accusations of genocide, antisemitism, fascism, racism and pedophilia. | |
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| Re: Twitter Schmitter.... I'm not talking about "vengeful" employees out to screw the mothership. That seems strange to even infer from what I posted. I'm simply talking about good, regular employees expressing themselves. I think Twitter, as it is RIGHT NOW, allows some insight to these companies that you're not going to see down the line. | |
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| said by Karl Bode :All true. But it is the beginning of something and still has value in terms of information exchange. I imagine in three years, Twitter won't even be relevant. You'll see the idea of instantaneous info exchange just incorporated across apps. hey they have instant exchange apps now they are called messaging clients, it's not hard click on the name of the person on your list, open the chat window and talk. A huge chunk of all corporations and people already have them both at work, home, and their cellphone and it works great, the fact they got involved in Twitter to say the exact same thing they could say on there is a waste of time for everyone and just them trying to be trendy. The average time someone uses a blog or Twitter or any new social interaction tool is roughly around a month maybe two at most before they stop using it.
People get bored with things very quickly and twitter is going to go down that same path I think a lot sooner than expected. It's the continual cluttering of the internet with more and more trash.
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| said by Matt :said by Karl Bode :Well, you do get feedback though. It's just different. Right, but you can totally ignore it if you so choose and it doesn't really screw with "your" timeline. For example, if I @ reply you from my Twitter account, no one but you can see that, unless you choose to @reply to my @reply and even then, your followers can only see your @reply, not the original comment. It's a great platform for companies to distribute critical information and for self-centered celebrities to make sure they stay at the center of attention. (ha) OMG dumb stupid and waste a time
just ask me a question via instant messaging thank you , that is unless i have some crazy desire never to have privacy and am some weirdo that requires absolutely LOADS a attention cause somehow i don't get any in conventional means
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Looks like you guys have been on it for roughly
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| said by Karl Bode :Twitter is one of those things where I understand completely how some people could be repulsed by it. Incessant information flowing everywhere, constantly. Most of it by people who have nothing particularly interesting to say. As somebody who traffics in information though, I have to say I've found it useful -- despite the fact I couldn't understand what it was for initially. Twitter is dysgenics thats support ADHD. You can't fit anything intellectual into 160 characters. | |
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| Re: Twitter Schmitter.... said by Karl Bode :I disagree. For example: "There is no normal." Then I want a part of it, because that would make me 'unique'.
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| All I have to say is "It's about time!!!"
But seriously, there seems to be a large amount of folks here who just don't get it. And you're right, I guess it's not for everyone, but it doesn't hurt anything to have one, and can certainly help whatever cause you're touting.
And after taking several "e-bashings" whenever I'd post anything about Twitter, I feel somewhat vindicated now that DSLR has officially taken the plunge as well!!
(I've been on Twitter for almost 2 1/2 years, way before most anyone knew what it was or before it was mainstream) At least now people know what I'm talking about when referring to Twitter, whether they use it or not.
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| Re: Twitter Schmitter.... I've had a Twitter acct for about that long--set it up to work with Remember The Milk, which I was trying out, 'cause it was the only way at the time to do one or two specific things with notifications. I still have the RTM acct but don't use it anymore--don't need any of its features. Anything I might use Twitter for now is better served by using a feed reader, so I don't use that anymore either (and, yet, that acct still picks up the occasional follower... which amazes me no end).
The funniest thing I've seen in this Twitter thread is those with a mix & match of hating all things Twitter and/or Facebook and/or My Space and/or whatever "social networking" site/tool used by "the masses" or "celebrities"; it's just so funny how threatened some people feel about things they don't use that others do--that "too kewl for skewl" attitude (which falls apart with others having the same attitude about the things they use). Religious zealots, anyone?
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| Re: Twitter Schmitter.... said by fatmanskinny :said by Cheese :No thanks, not interested. Agreed! Twitter and Facebook both remind me of AOL Chatrooms. Wait until they start charging. People will then run back to texting and e-mailing and maybe, dare I say it, picking up a phone and calling someone. You sound like my grandma, only instead of calling someone, she kept telling me to get off the phone and go see them face to face.
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(Facebook? never been there myself)
(Surprisingly, the post I replied to got mod'ed [taking away the relevance of the Latin], about which all I can say is: why bother? I think someone is being overly sensitive, esp. given the self-deprecation it contained. Oh, well... TGIF.) | |
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2 edits | Re: I'll stay here Hey, I asked in the forums earlier this week, so if anybody feels like they can do a better job cooking one up, please feel free. I'll take the best of the bunch.
Also, if anybody can design a better background design than I did via Photoshop in about half an hour, I'm completely open to that as well. | |
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| Re: I'll stay here said by Karl Bode :Also, if anybody can design a better background design than I did via Photoshop in about half an hour, I'm completely open to that as well. My son made up mine, when your story created the need for the graphic.
He really likes yours.
He'll try to fabricate something if you can give some direction. Favorite evil dictator, dream political party, something no one knows about you.... That sort of thing.
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| Re: Followed said by Karl Bode :Much obliged. Yea, OK. I'm there. Now what?
This is my 3rd+ reply to you. I think that means I'm stalking you.
I guess the black altar, candles and array of fuzzy telephoto pictures of you, kind of gave it away.
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| Re: Twitter, LoL Your submissions to the OSOD Thread give it real substance. I'm glad you keep posting there.
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| Twitter == Two-Way RSS I work in web development building and maintaining a platform used to share and collaborate information. It has a lot of social networking aspects built in, so I've jumped onto all the social networks to see what the trends are and what really works for people.
What I like about Twitter is that it's sort of a series of interleaved RSS feed where I can directly interact with the sources, rebroadcast, converse, etc. I really enjoy it. Glad you're on there now.
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| Re: Ok I am a follower....We will control the horizontal..... I looked at Twitter about 6 months ago for the first time, didn't understand what it was for, and since I really didn't understand it, I didn't know what I was looking at. I created an account, looked around as if I'm peeking in the window of an abandoned house, and walked away.
Since you're on there now, I'll give Twitter a second shot.
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clubs: | I don't do twitter. I tried before, I just can't get into it. Plus I have my house already... I don't need something else to watch.
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WHO F'CKING CARES IF you have one or all, or like someone like me why bother with the CRAP.
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1 edit | Re: Why is it... Because when we migrated to the Broadband Reports domain it became important to retain the DSLReports.com domain for pagerank. It created a disassociative personality disorder I hope we can someday remedy, but it's something people have to just workaround until that day comes...
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| Re: Why is it... said by Paulg :To this day I still use dslreports.com.. I guess I'm part of the problem, not the solution Me too. If they had a shorter URL, I'd use that.
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| ..... Why? I was on google and I typed in "what are" and now if freaked the **** out of me, it was funny but a bit unexpected. BTW "what is" will give you a laugh too.
Anyway great week we are working on a movie at school, just a group of us kids(I say kids but we are in college.).
And how would I google this? "compare and contrast the antislavery movement before 1830 with the abolitionists movement after 1830" and "Explain the forces behind the spread of slavery, the political conflicts if cause and the eventual compromises made by opposing factions. Describe some of the ideological arguments plantation owners used to justify slavery". How would I google to find that information? I need it for school and I am on my own to find it. | |
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| Re: shameless plug said by TCub : welcome to twitter It's kind of like hearing "Welcome to Buffalo", only it isn't.
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| This may be my favorite Random Fortune to date. Random fortune from 'peq'
Bar'f zvaq, bapr fgergpurq ol n arj vqrn, arire ertnvaf vgf bevtvany
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| What's the point? Why should I go to DSLReports Twitter page to see the days headlines and main topics of discussion with links when I can just go to www.dslreports.com and be done with it?
I think social networking is pretty retarded to begin with, but Twitter, no matter how hard I try to wrap my head around it, is just asinine. I fail to understand the concept of it and am baffled at how popular it is. And being limited to 140 characters, just about every tweet I've ever had the displeasure of reading is so nonsensical to the point I cannot comprehend what is trying to be said.
What's even worse is people who follow celebrities, no I really don't care what Oprah had for lunch, no I don't care what's on Ashton Kutcher's mind, why does anyone, or should I say ne1? And I'm willing to bet 99% of these celebrities don't even post their own tweets, they're probably made by some publicist or assistant. | |
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| Re: What's the point? said by Steve Mehs :What's even worse is people who follow celebrities, no I really don't care what Oprah had for lunch, no I don't care what's on Ashton Kutcher's mind, why does anyone, or should I say ne1? Because feeding your stalkers is now cool. | |
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| I agree with about 75% of your comment. I dont understand what the point of having a DSLreports or any other company twitter page would be. Cant the company simply post the same infomation on their own site?
I don't understand the whole celeberty thing either. All celeberies are pretty much, more or less, living products. They were once famous because they were REALLY good and worked hard on what they do.. now their just overpaid, white, party animals but thats a whole other subject. | |
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| said by Steve Mehs :Why should I go to DSLReports Twitter page to see the days headlines and main topics of discussion with links when I can just go to www.dslreports.com and be done with it? I use Google Reader myself--it aggregates news items from across multiple sites (which is the point).
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Only thing that is irrelevant in all of this is Twitter itself. It's a stupid concept, there is no point to it, and in 2 or 3 years from now will be forgotten about. The sooner the better. Things come in waves. AIM is just about dead, PedophileSpace is dead only a matter of time for Twitter and Facebook.
**Ooooh look at me, people care what I'm doing right now, people care what's on my mind, follow me on Twitter** LAME!
And I still have yet to comprehend why checking Twitter is better/easier then coming to this or any other site only to get the same exact information. When I signed up for this atrocity of the English language and reasonable thought, I started following Orbitcast, a satellite radio news site, but what idiot would just go to a site, only to get links to go to another site. Sometimes I wish it was 1995 again, before all this stupidness. Heaven forbid if some 16 year old girl can't update her Facebook every second of the day. This social networking crap needs to go.
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| Re: What's the point? said by Steve Mehs :Twitter is only big because of celebrities. Possibly, but, to be honest, I don't even believe in the concept of "celebrity"... I just don't care--and I don't care what other people are up to or what stuff they use. Twitter is a tool that's either used or mis-used just as easily as any other tool. Whether it succeeds or fails as a tool depends on how useful it is to those who use it; so if I don't use it, then why should I give it a second thought regarding whether others do. I don't. It has no effect on me whatsoever. I'm not into social networking. I'm not into blogging. BFD if someone else is. | |
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His tweets CANT BE BEAT!!!
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That's me, all the way!!
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