Your Twitter experience. DO TELL?

[lynchpatrickj]

Twitter seems to incite my paranoia like nothing else. Anytime anybody adds me on that thing (and they're generally local people I don't know) my mind goes into overdrive as I try to figure out who they are, how they think they know me, or why they're "following" me. It really creeps me out but I can't let it go without figuring out why people add each other on that thing. Ever get a "follower" who you'd actually like to meet?

Assuage my paranoia, call me a loser, but please tell me how you use Twitter.

 

[Szeph el raton]

We use it at the office to communicate inside of the team, therefore everyone has his updates protected.

Seriously, there is absolutely no use for it in my private life. It's like facebook minus everything but the status message. People just use it to tell other people stuff about their life that no one cares about and to get the number of followers as high as possible to feel like they are famous.

So either make your updates protected, live with the faceless mindless crowd of followers or, better, just delete your account there.

 

[mulansauce]

Originally Posted by lynchpatrickj

Assuage my paranoia, call me a loser, but please tell me how you use Twitter.

I don't.

 

[romafan]

What is twitter?

A twit is an annoying person.....

 

[Thomas]

I've heard of it but have not been motivated to look any further.

Will it help me expand my kingdom of dumb? My kingdumb? My sphere of dumbfluence?

 

[Dakota rube]

Twitter seems to me to be the height of egotism

 

[yerfdog]

Originally Posted by Szeph el ratón

We use it at the office to communicate inside of the team, therefore everyone has his updates protected.

Seriously, there is absolutely no use for it in my private life. It's like facebook minus everything but the status message. People just use it to tell other people stuff about their life that no one cares about and to get the number of followers as high as possible to feel like they are famous.

So either make your updates protected, live with the faceless mindless crowd of followers or, better, just delete your account there.

Why don't you just use Yammer or one of its competitors that are specifically built for business/enterprise solutions?
see http://www.crunchbase.com/company/yammer for summary and a list of some competitors

 

[mrkleen]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

Twitter seems to me to be the height of egotism

Agree 100%.

I dont need updates on where you are every 15 minutes, and I don't care what you ate for lunch. Get a god damn life.

 

[shoreman1782]

I know this was spam-bumped, but...

I enjoy twitter in that I like following the twitters of people I like. Michael Ian Black's and Stephen Fry's are pretty funny.

I'm not much of a twitter-er myself.

 

[VKK3450]

Originally Posted by Dakota rube

Twitter seems to me to be the height of egotism


+1, my girlfriend is in digital marketing and she is raving about twitter and tweets and crap.

I think there is already too much noise to cut through and the Interwebz needs a bit of a shakeout.

K

 

[Dakota rube]

Now that all the talking heads on television news are tweeting, I think it is safe to say Twitter has officially Jumped the Shark.

 

[Cas Ruffin]

Twitter is too much work. How interesting can you really be?

 

[Crawford]

Older, less-technologicaly with-it celebrity / newscaster, announcing to the world they are on Twitter:

"Yes, that's right folks, I'd like to remind you that I am now on the Twitter. Add me at @blah to receive my, uh, tweets... *looks off camera, whispers* seriously? tweets? is that right? what the ****. that sound ridiculi... yeah. okay. whatever... *looks back at camera* Yes, I will be constantly, uh, tweeting? twitting? twittering.

Then a lightning bolt hits him and puts him out of his misery.

 

[DeCaloFashion1]

Just started using it as a promotional tool @ work. Already running out of things to say

 

[shimmyt]

Really don't use it for personal use, but for following what's happening with my major work stuff (vmware, and powershell), as well as my local news (freep, and mlive.com) it's really quite useful. Now for personal stuff IM me or call, don't try to get me on twitter.