X (formally known as twitter)

DavidHarveysMonkey

anyone here on twitter?

TwoRs

Yes - now and again. Blue Lou lives on there. He's the King of Twits.

Rudi

I went on it and the promptly forgot all about it

kaydubya

Twatter

someoneelse

I am. @propermag

Blue_Lou_Boyle

kaydubya wrote:Twatter

Yeah last thing you want to be doing is typing random thoughts into your iPhone & sharing them with strangers over the internet ..........

john_charles_is_god

:lol:Touche!

kaydubya

You are my bestist friends. Not strangers.

Facebook's for overweight women in offices that have loads of sick days and like the xfactor. Twitter's just for weirdos.

Blue_Lou_Boyle

kaydubya wrote:Twitter's just for weirdos.

been ace today with the darts final

kaydubya

To be honest. I've looked at it and I can't see what it does or what point it serves or why you'd want to look at it. And I can't make head or tail of the comments with all those symbols.

I shall resist it just like I did the Internet, then the iPod and the iPhone. The world would be better off without them all!!

Reggie_Perrin

I jioined it just to keep up with Leeds games via TheScratchingShed tweets but could never be arsed to. The whole thing seems a bit one dimentional whereas Facebook is multifaceted.

albert_herbert_hawkins

Facebook for friends,

Linked in for business

OMJ for everything else.

Twitter's wank. Very popular amongst singer / actress / whatever types I'm sure.

Blue_Lou_Boyle

you'll be saying audioboo is shit next

gorefidel

albert herbert hawkins wrote:Facebook for friends, Linked in for businessOMJ for everything else. Twitter's wank. Very popular amongst singer / actress / whatever types I'm sure.

Have you ever seen a profile on Linked in that was remotely accurate?Facebook if your into that kind of thing I get it. Not my thing, but I see the point. Second life, but for free. Be the person you want people to see you as. Without every leaving your bedroom.Linked in is just the worst. Its like the personal statement from hell on a forum where everyone is trying to sell themselves or bullshit how wonderful they are. At least on OMJ its bullshit about football and music, not 'what do you do for living' on constant broadcast.Twitter - I just don't get how anyone can be that interesting, all the time. I get journalists covering a story or running a beat/column and celebs getting their PA to post on there. Brilliant concept for real time work or breaking news updates, but beyond that 140 character streams of the mundane... nah, don't get it.Yeah, I am a luddite.

luxury_scruff

gorefidel wrote:At least on OMJ its bullshit about football and music, not 'what do you do for living' on constant broadcast.

It sometimes is for the clangers.

gorefidel

luxury_scruff wrote:
gorefidel wrote:At least on OMJ its bullshit about football and music, not 'what do you do for living' on constant broadcast.
It sometimes is for the clangers.

Goes right over my head, so I don't notice any of it.

gorefidel

No,its not from Private Eye, its Fry all by himself
[url]http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2009/nov/20/stephen-fry-twitter[/url]

[quote]Social networking · Stephen Fry technophile and a "twillionaire" having amassed more than a million followers on Twitter, yesterday explained what almost led him to commit "twitticide" last month and consider leaving the micro-blogging service.

"I don't know about you but whenever I read a blog I do not let my eye drop below half the screen in case I accidentally hit the bit where the comments reside. Of all the stinking, sliding, scuttling, weird, entomological creatures that inhabit the floor of the internet those comments on blogs are the most unbearable, almost beyond imagining," he added, getting into his stride and echoing comments made by fellow comedian David Mitchell earlier this year about the standard of online commentary.

"Their resentment, their desire to be heard at the most vituperative level, at the most unpleasant and malevolent, genuinely ill-willed malevolent, level is terrifying and I am very often simply not able to cope with that," Fry said. "Twitter is usually not like that... [but] I found that the @ mentions were just getting... I could see these comments that would just make me upset."

"I have no excuse for getting upset. I am a public figure and should be strong enough and thick-skinned enough to take it but sometimes when I am a bit low I just could not take it and I kind of lost it for a while and thought, shall I commit twitticide? I have slowly eased my way back and it is great, but I just have to be aware of that issue."

His "hiccup" came at the end of a month that saw Twitter hit the headlines after the Guardian was gagged from reporting a question in parliament about the actions of oil company Trafigura and the "twitterverse" rose up in protest at an article by Daily Mail columnist Jan Moir about the death of Boyzone singer Stephen Gately. Fry himself used Twitter to voice his own fury at Moir's column saying, "I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathsome and inhumane".

The Stephen Fry outcry shows how Twitter has changed . Fry was speaking yesterday in a panel discussion about social networking, alongside Twitter co-founder Biz Stone and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, organised by the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (Nesta). During the debate he was asked by Tom Loosemore, who heads up Channel 4's 4IP innovation fund, whether there was a danger with the micro-blogging site that people would merely use it as a way of speaking to like-minded followers rather than engaging in real debate.

"It's a very British question: this idea that somehow we have a duty to put ourselves in the position where our enemies are allowed to speak to us and we have to hear them," Fry retorted. "There is something faintly disgusting in someone who merely wants to have sycophantic voices cooing in his ear and licking his inner thigh... but on the other hand it is a bit much that somehow people almost feel they have a right to be heard in their insulting of me. If I don't want to hear people being unpleasant about me I should have the right to turn it off."

"It's not like a cold shower: you must have a certain percentage of people telling you you are nothing and it's damn good for you."[/quote]

Blue_Lou_Boyle

RT @gorevidel you really should be on stage fella #blokeswhohateeverythingnew #omj #baileysgetonit

gorefidel

Blue Lou Boyle wrote:RT @gorevidel you really should be on stage fella #blokeswhohateeverythingnew #omj #baileysgetonit

Shouldn't you have twittered that to your gimps, sorry followers.... :lol:I think Twitter/micro blogging is great for real time information feed stuff. Its just its x factorisation that amuses me. A lot. I wish I could figure out how they get funding for this stuff though. That is genius with no revenue model.

Blue_Lou_Boyle

gorefidel wrote:
Blue Lou Boyle wrote:RT @gorevidel you really should be on stage fella #blokeswhohateeverythingnew #omj #baileysgetonit
Shouldn't you have twittered that to your gimps, sorry followers.... :lol:I think Twitter/micro blogging is great for real time information feed stuff. Its just its x factorisation that amuses me. A lot. .

I think you've nailed itStuff as wide as the Mumbai shootings to anti-Griffin demos re Question Time, EDL in Leeds city centre etc, it's unedited reporting that you can't replicate anywhere else (well actually you can - so forget that). Its so immediate, most of it by people with mobile devices. Lots (most) of it is bollocks - but it doesn't take long to filter the bollocks outAnd yeah you have the x factorisation - but since I stopped following hanna montana and the proclaimers I'm over that ;)#omj #baileysgetonit