Comments on: Wholesale Fail Whale: Developer’s Twitters

By: Jessi

Jessi — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 01:44:28 +0000

I have one, too. I’ve never commented at RPS but have been reading for quite a while. I tried out Twitter early last year and didn’t like it at all….found it a waste of time. A month ago, I decided to try my hand at it again and while it’s still a waste of time for the most part, I’ve found it to be an interesting waste of time here and there, so I’m sticking with it now.

By: Enlargement

Enlargement — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:00:33 +0000

I am amazed with it. It is a good thing for my research. Thanks

By: GothikX

GothikX — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 20:24:15 +0000

I have one, but use it once in a blue moon. Stalk– following people on twitter would consume the precious little free time I have left.

By: Hmm-hmm

Hmm-hmm — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 12:28:59 +0000

I keep getting dragged into these things. First it was just face to face, phonecalls, letters. Then e-mail. Message boards. ICQ. Various IRC channels. AIM. MSN. Now I’m also on the dutch version of MySpace. It always gets to a point where I simply decide to scrap most of the means of digital communication. I’m already wondering when I should dump that MySpace thingie.

So, Twitter? No thanks, really.

By: wcaypahwat

wcaypahwat — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:07:34 +0000

I signed up, and it turns out not a single person I know uses it. So now im just following people from here. And ms. Alexander.

By: Darren Torpey

Darren Torpey — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:06:50 +0000

Yeah, the video that Mark put at the bottom seems to completely contradict what he’s saying about Twitter. It’s everything he actually wrote that reflects a lot of what Twitter is good for. (The casual-conversation-with-interesting-people effect, if you will.)

By: Alonzo

Alonzo — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:34:47 +0000

good to see it’s still there.
I dont use twitter because i dont know anyone that uses it. A surprising number of computery-types still dont even know it exists, it seems to be a very specific to certain groups kind of thing.

By: eyemessiah

eyemessiah — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 21:34:17 +0000

I watched the intro to twitter video on the “why he was wrong” page you linked to.
The guy says something about how you don’t tell your all your friends that you are having coffee because they don’t need to know and then goes on to ask but what about the people who want to know? I am more worried about who these people who want to know that I am having coffee are, what is wrong with them and how quickly I can get a restraining order enforced against them.

Mark says “Maybe Tweets are the digital equivalent of all the snorts and grunts and trumpetings and flicking of tails by which herds of animals maintain contact and cohesion…”

Which basically sums up everything that horrifies me about the modern internet. Orgy Porgy!

By: Darren Torpey

Darren Torpey — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:50:53 +0000

For those interested in a rather intelligent look at Twitter: Mark McGuinness wrote a great article about why, despite the bad initial impression he got (and most of us get) about Twitter, he was wrong about Twitter (and why it's actually quite great).

By: eyemessiah

eyemessiah — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:49:46 +0000

I don’t use twitter because I don’t really get it. That said I’m not really interested in blogs (as a technology I mean – I do read one and technically I have my own!), or online social networking and I only just tolerate forums because people stopped longform-insulting each other on usenet.

I get enough small-talk and chit-chat in RL!

By: Frans Coehoorn

Frans Coehoorn — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:24:49 +0000

Yes, I have one and I use it like one time a month. It’s very awesome.

By: Yontan

Yontan — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:45:37 +0000

Finally got around to sorting out my account afew months back at the insistance of Willeth. Turns out he was following some pretty interesting people. ShawnElliott floods my twitter page with a constant supply of links and every now and then I feel an urge to stop following him, then he sends out an absolute gem of an internet find!
It’s like playing an MMORPG, hours of grind for that one moment glory/hilarious bug that somehow makes it worthwhile.