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Why is Twitter just now the "It" thing?

musicismylife78musicismylife78 Posts: 6,116
edited April 2009 in All Encompassing Trip
Hasnt it been online sine 2006? Why is it just in the last few months when EVERYONE seems to be on the damn thing?
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  • The JugglerThe Juggler Posts: 49,309
    what is twitter?
    www.myspace.com
  • mca47mca47 Posts: 13,301
    Me being on myspace and facebook is more than I can put up with.
  • milarsomilarso Posts: 1,280
    I don't know why it's the it thing.
    But I do know that this if effing funny.
    http://twitter.com/cwalken
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  • FinsburyParkCarrotsFinsburyParkCarrots Seattle, WA Posts: 12,223
    I started a Twitter account back in October, and within a few minutes I got an email saying "Barack Obama is now following you on Twitter". I didn't see the need to do any more with it, after getting all that validation before I'd even begun. 8-)
  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I don't use it so I'm not going to pretend I know why it's so popular. I think a lot of people got familiar with it during the presidential campaign who might not have used it before. I remember reading that during the hostage situation in Mumbai last fall a lot of people made contact through Twitter because they couldn't make phone calls so now the media seems to be using it much more.
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  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    apparently Shaq had one and there was an article in some newspaper, and it suddenly exploded. i'm not into it... i'm a facebook kinda girl.
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  • Sian-of-the-deadSian-of-the-dead Posts: 8,963
    I don't even know what it is :?
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  • chimechime Posts: 7,839
    I think in the UK it got more popular as Stephen Fry uses it a lot and mentions it in a lot of his interviews.

    I'm not on it but I have been and read his before :mrgreen:
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:
    I started a Twitter account back in October, and within a few minutes I got an email saying "Barack Obama is now following you on Twitter". I didn't see the need to do any more with it, after getting all that validation before I'd even begun. 8-)

    8-)
  • TravelarTravelar Kalamazoo, USA Posts: 3,410
    milarso wrote:
    I don't know why it's the it thing.
    But I do know that this if effing funny.
    http://twitter.com/cwalken

    Hahaha.... that was hilarious.
  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    It's just one more thing I'm going to ignore. I really don't have time for all these different types of networking sites. It's such a waste of time!!
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Yea, I got started on it in early 2007. The community was small and it really wasn't that well known so it kinda flew under the radar for a while. Nowadays it's all over the media, and there are some pretty cool apps to keep you connected wherever you go (I'm addicted to a desktop twitter app called TweetDeck) so it's definitely more accessible. I'm still not sure how i feel about it - they call it a 'community' but it feels like people shouting into an empty room to me at times, and I think there is such as thing as being TOO connected. Still, every now and then something will happen to draw me back so I'd say it's pretty addictive.
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  • libragirllibragirl Posts: 4,632
    I guess because all of the celebrities are using it now. I don't know , until a month ago I never knew it existed:P
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  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    I think TOO connected is absolutely a good way of describing it.
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,317
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    apparently Shaq had one and there was an article in some newspaper, and it suddenly exploded. i'm not into it... i'm a facebook kinda girl.

    That was actually pretty funny as most things from Shaq are. That being said, I'm a facebook kind of guy. More than two status updates per day is a little excessive, which is what Twitter is in my opinion.
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Speaking of Twitter, I just saw this:

    http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/i ... tter-slam/

    A war of "tweets" between Chris Cornell and Trent Reznor...
    I smile, but who am I kidding...
  • ledveddermanledvedderman Posts: 7,761
    I still don't understand what Twitter is
    E8toX.gif

    http://www.reverbnation.com/brianzilm
  • aNiMaLaNiMaL Posts: 7,117
    Twitter has got to be the dumbest thing ever.
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    doesn't twitter interface with Facebook? you type a line like what you are up to from your phone and all your facebook friends can see what you are doing (ready to take a dump, giving the dog a bath, etc.)

    I feel stalked on reunion.com. they send spy reports and tell you who looks at your profile.
    this man has me confused with somebody else and typed a message to me yesterday. let's say my name is posted as Betty Boop on there. He wrote a strange name in the subject (which google told me is a street) and he wrote in the email, "hello P.B. Boop." I replied to him that I don't know what the subject line is and that is not me. I did not understand the extra initial he put in front of my name! I changed my age to be like 70 yrs old.
    I'm deleting the account soon but it is inconvenient b/c I have to call to do it.

    do any of you guys ever feel that these fun things we are doing like texting, emailing or blogging is like work?
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  • DeLukinDeLukin Posts: 2,757
    Yea, it definitely feels like work sometimes. Part of my job is to understand how new technologies can work in higher ed so I get to play with them and call it 'work.' But to answer the question, "What is Twitter" I guess it could be described as micro-blogging. You set up an account and talk about really anything you want in short posts called Tweets. Tweets are constrained to 140 characters, so it forces you to be concise. You can follow other people's Tweets and they can follow you and before you know it you have a community of people who are following each other. I've found it to be a great way to ask questions, point to cool content that I've seen, or just be funny and irrelevant. It's actually a great way to keep in touch with people who work in different departments or outside of my place of employment. It's not as formal as an email and reaches more people than IM and is just really fun to do. If you haven't tried it, set up an account and follow pearl jam's tweets. It's definitely an interesting social media experiment...
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  • WobbieWobbie Posts: 30,488
    DeLukin wrote:
    I think there is such as thing as being TOO connected.

    These days, it's as if everyone is connected......................but not really.

    Know what I mean? :cry:
    If I had known then what I know now...

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  • Who PrincessWho Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    By coincidence this article appeared in my local snoozepaper today: :geek:

    http://www.star-telegram.com/living/story/1252771.html

    How Tweet it is: Life's great passages Twitter-fied

    From the Bard to Beyonce, we re-imagine their works of genius reduced to 140 characters.
    BY ALYSON WARD
    <!-- e --><a href="mailto:award@star-telegram.com">award@star-telegram.com</a><!-- e -->

    In case you hadn’t noticed, Twitter is taking over the world.

    In the past couple of months, the 3-year-old microblogging service has gone mainstream, embraced by the establishment and media. Twitter, for better or worse, seems to be here to stay.

    In case you don’t know how Twitter works, here’s a quick tutorial: the user (you), publishes updates and random thoughts, allowing friends (and any interested bystanders) to know what you are doing and thinking right this minute. These posts are called tweets — but don’t think that makes them too adorable to be taken seriously. Because tweeting is power. Where we used to be able to bore just our friends and family, now we can bore the whole world with the minutiae of our lives.

    But here’s the catch: You have to be brief. Twitter allows only 140 characters for our thoughts.

    In a world where even John McCain is tweeting his meetings (twitter.com/SenJohnMcCain), this means we’d better get used to condensing our thoughts to 140 characters.

    Text messaging has trained us alrdy to abbrvte in awkwrd ways, cutting out vwls when ncssry. And MySpace and Facebook taught us to believe that everything we think and feel is very important and needs to be shared with the universe. Twitter, then, is the next evolutionary step, the natural combination of all that informal chatter and Internet-based narcissism.

    It seems that eventually, we’re all going to be communicating every thought through spontaneous bursts of semiliterate language, 140 characters at a time.

    This will require practice. Those who are accustomed to proper punctuation and careful wording, who like the way a complete sentence looks and feels, are simply going to have to get over it. Just tweet & move on, ppl. Tweet & move on.

    So. To prepare for the future, we’re turning to the past, to some of the most famous, elegant passages in the English language — and, OK, some really long pop songs — into tweets. When Twitter finally takes over the world, an era of short and tweet talk may lie ahead.

    Literature

    How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

    EBB: @RobertB How much do I love you? <3<3<3<3<3 This much!!!

    Robert Frost’s Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

    RobFrost: Out in the woods and it’s snowing. Losing my cellphone signal. SO pretty but Ive got to get home. Will post pix of my horse in the snow!!

    Walden by Henry David Thoreau

    HDT: Spent 2 years in the woods. Hardcore: no heat. no DVR. Deep thoughts about muskrats. Id like 2 see YOU farm ur own beans, suckers.

    Love Story by Erich Segal

    JCavilleri: <3 = never hvng to say ur sorry.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby

    Fitz: Gatsby throws great parties. He loves Daisy. A green light at night, some ennui, a car accident, a shooting. Everything’s about money. Sigh.

    The balcony scene from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet

    Juliet: Why does he have to be from the one family we HATE? UGH life is not fair.

    Romeo: @Juliet Hey psst I’m down here. Maybe I won’t be a Montague anymore. U can call me whatever u want.

    Juliet: @Romeo Ur gonna get killed if u get caught. How did u get here?

    Romeo: @Juliet I’m here because I <3 you.

    Juliet: @Romeo LOL how do I know you mean that?

    Romeo: @Juliet I swear by the moon!

    Juliet: @Romeo Um no. That thing comes and goes all the time. Anyway this is 2 much 2 soon. I <3 you 2 but maybe we cld take it slow.

    Romeo: @Juliet Wut so is that it? Ur just going inside now?

    Juliet: @Romeo Look my nurse is calling me. If ur serious, propose to me 2morrow.

    Romeo: @Juliet OK tomorrow a.m. Send a mssngr. This is going 2 work out great.

    TV and movies

    Law & Order

    DetLupo: Totally gonna solve this crime in 43 minutes. Duh-Dun!

    Sex and the City

    CarrieB: Having deep thoughts lately about relationships. OMG are those manolos??? <3

    The X-Files

    Mulder: @Scully There r aliens. They took my sister!

    Scully: @Mulder Mulder ur craz— (BRB: abducted)

    American Idol

    Judges: No one in America can sing. Wait, u can. Heres a record deal. (BTW DRINK COKE.)

    Government

    Declaration of Independence

    AmericanPeople: We don’t belong to England anymore. WOOT.

    Preamble to the Constitution of the United States

    Framerz: Hey we wanna set up a good country with rules that work 4 everyone. Check out this Constitution: (http://tinyurl.com. . . .)

    John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address, 1961

    JFK: Dont ask what ur country can do 4u. It shld be the other way around.

    Ronald Reagan’s speech at the Brandenburg Gate, 1987

    RonR: Rlly sick of all this division and drama. Just OVER it. Mr. Gorbachev tear down this wall!
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  • justamjustam Posts: 21,412
    imalive wrote:
    DeLukin wrote:
    I think there is such as thing as being TOO connected.

    These days, it's as if everyone is connected......................but not really.

    Know what I mean? :cry:

    Yes.

    It's superficial connection and it hinders deep connection. What an enormous waste of time!!! :|
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  • fightingthesuburbsfightingthesuburbs Posts: 142
    Delukin explained it really well

    It can be useful, depending what you want to do with it. I've been on for about 2 years.

    Since I edit a car blog I twitter about what cars I'm driving which days. And other car news. Followers are mostly car buffs and PR/social media types.

    It sure doesn't generate much traffic to my site but I'd hope builds some brand recognition.

    On the other hand if you follow certain people it is a powerful news gathering service. I get news of interest MUCH faster on Twitter vs. RSS, websites etc.

    The celebrity thing is interesting and Dave Navarro has even replied to some of my posts. He has a Dodge Challenger SRT8 btw.

    I think it's actually less impressive as a social networking tool and much more impressive as a newsgathering and entertainment tool.

    In an interesting side note, Demi Moore and Aston Kutcher are actually a bit groundbreaking on it. It really could kill the paparazzi and celeb magazines and sites like TMZ if you're into that stuff. Plus it seems actors and musicians have a LOT of free time on their hands.
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  • fightingthesuburbsfightingthesuburbs Posts: 142
    Oh almost forgot someone in the PJ camp runs their twitter feed
    http://twitter.com/PearlJam

    Favorite tweet was this one yesterday
    Watching all the Ten Special Deluxe Editions get unloaded off the trucks!
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  • John Briggs 2008John Briggs 2008 Posts: 1,024
    It's just the latest trend. Like facebook and myspace it will become standard and no longer atrend. Takes afew years. I remember skype and jabber going through the same process.
  • pearljgirl2010pearljgirl2010 Shillington, PA/Tuckerton, NJ Posts: 3,428
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    apparently Shaq had one and there was an article in some newspaper, and it suddenly exploded. i'm not into it... i'm a facebook kinda girl.

    That was actually pretty funny as most things from Shaq are. That being said, I'm a facebook kind of guy. More than two status updates per day is a little excessive, which is what Twitter is in my opinion.

    exactly! Plus, I don't think anyone cares THAT much what I'm doing alllllll the time :-)

    although, the new Facebook format is kinda like Twitter.
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  • xavier mcdanielxavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,317
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    xavier mcdaniel wrote:
    pearljgirl2010 wrote:
    apparently Shaq had one and there was an article in some newspaper, and it suddenly exploded. i'm not into it... i'm a facebook kinda girl.

    That was actually pretty funny as most things from Shaq are. That being said, I'm a facebook kind of guy. More than two status updates per day is a little excessive, which is what Twitter is in my opinion.

    exactly! Plus, I don't think anyone cares THAT much what I'm doing alllllll the time :-)

    although, the new Facebook format is kinda like Twitter.

    I don't think that's a coincidence. I remember when facebook began getting more people on it, my space began having features such as the status update.
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  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    whoprincess wrote:
    I think TOO connected is absolutely a good way of describing it.

    I agree.
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  • rriversrrivers Posts: 3,698
    aNiMaL wrote:
    Twitter has got to be the dumbest thing ever.

    You are right, animal.

    This article really explains it well: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=925316
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