Haven't opened twitter in ages but I remember reading Tina Fey's page a while back, it was random/awkward/funny...

Hopefully you'll update here in a few weeks or however long and post whether you are a convert, or you just got briefly suckered by the hype.

Part of the problem, however stupid, is the terminology. 'Tweet'. 'Twittering'. It's ****ing terrible. But then again, I still hate the term 'Blog', 'Blogger' etc. Stupid terminology can make it hard to see the positives in a technology.

And ultimately, with this 'microblogging' there is absolutely no reason that 'Tweets' are updated any faster updates than 'Blogs'. When I look at a page of 'Tweets' (ffs, kill me now!), it looks much less useful, enticing, informative etc etc etc than even the most basic Wordpress site. So yeah, I still don't get it as a standalone. As rapid web publishing develops into lots of these different components / services that can each be embedded into web pages in all sorts of different ways, then it will be much more interesting. But as a standalone service, it does nothing for me atm.

John Mayer, Ian Poulter, Shaq, Swisher, Yung Juc, Mark Cuban

I understand this point of view.

For example, with Wordpress you can email-to-post, so by sending an email from your phone you can post a new entry. There is also an iphone WP app coming out for easy posting w/ pictures, etc.

With twitter, however, you can still SMS to post, which means you can have something online within 20-30 seconds of learning about it... it's going to be pretty hard to beat that. Additionally, people generally expect higher quality for full blogs compared with twitter. Posting a 9th grade style text message live on twitter is perfectly acceptable, and so are normal web abbreviations.

Open twitter app, click tweet icon, type 140 chars or less, hit send is very ****ing fast.

Worst things about twitter these days:
People #who #abuse #the**** #outof #hashtags
Random spamfish who follow everyone who follows any celeb twitter. No I don't want twitter.com/internetwhore12 following me just because I decided to follow shaq. **** off.

A must have for twitter/firefox users.

http://twitterfox.net/

this is what I like best with twitter - just seeing what random topics most people are talking about. Then something will pop up that I hadn't heard on the news yet, and I'll hear about it there first.

It's also a good time waster to type random crap in the search box to see what tweets (?) come up.

lolll

I am now following Dids on twitter, my expectations are quite high.

@the_real_Davey?

I just want to say tytytytytytyty this is so awesome.

Ok, there is one other thing re: the twitter phenom that is starting to really piss me off. Demonstration:

@Franchise 60: you and Dids should probably just get on with it and start dating.


Somehow we have managed successfully to direct our comments to a particular poster without needing to use '@', but suddenly now, adding that character makes what was previously cloudy, now crystal clear? It's an EXTRA CHARACTER!

Umm... you don't understand the technology or how 3rd party aps like Tweetdeck (seriously gtfo some fire fox extension) use that @ sign.

As an expert at getting pissed off at stupid things, caring about an extra character is the height of dumb.

I'm not talking about on Twitter or related apps - I'm talking about ppl using them in forums posts.