Why is Twitter just now the "It" thing?

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  • Wobbie
    Wobbie Posts: 31,578
    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 Princess
    Who 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
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    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!
    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • justam
    justam Posts: 21,415
    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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.
  • pearljgirl2010
    pearljgirl2010 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.

    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 mcdaniel
    xavier mcdaniel Somewhere in NYC Posts: 9,464
    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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  • rrivers
    rrivers Posts: 3,698
    I think TOO connected is absolutely a good way of describing it.

    I agree.
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  • rrivers
    rrivers 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
    "We're fixed good, lamp-wise."
  • JaneNY
    JaneNY Posts: 4,438
    I like twitter. I've been on since last year. Its like blogging lite. I can't be bothered with facebook or myspace, but I can come up with 140 characters every so often, and if you pick who you follow carefully, its a nice addition to life. Pearl Jam has a twitter, you know.
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  • Who Princess
    Who Princess out here in the fields Posts: 7,305
    All this week the comic strip Doonesbury (yeah, I'm an old hippie, I still read it) has been making fun of Twitter. Today's panel pretty much summed it up:

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    "The stars are all connected to the brain."
  • I don't see what the difference is in Twitter and the whole 'status' thing on Myspace and Facebook.

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  • chiquimonkey
    chiquimonkey Posts: 9,337
    i resisted twitter for the longest time (as i do most technologies lol), didn't get the point of it at all. but apparently it is a good marketing tool so i broke down and gave in. even made a blog too (http://b-drawn.blogspot.com) ....i'm cruising into the 21st century at the speed of sound, yep :lol:
  • It's only a waste of time if you constantly use it as a status update machine. It's really fun and informative if you follow the right people - comedians you like, celebrities you want to keep up with, news sites you follow, that kind of thing. Plus, when you have a good one liner and there's no one around, you can immortalise it on twitter. 8-)
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  • HermanBloom
    HermanBloom Posts: 1,764
    It will be popular until the next thing; remember when myspace was the thing?
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  • chiquimonkey
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    It's only a waste of time if you constantly use it as a status update machine. It's really fun and informative if you follow the right people - comedians you like, celebrities you want to keep up with, news sites you follow, that kind of thing. Plus, when you have a good one liner and there's no one around, you can immortalise it on twitter. 8-)
    yeah it's not as bad as i thought. i guess i was thinking of the people that update EVERY single thing they're doing!

    thanks for the add on my blog by the way, at least i think i'ts you, same avatar :D my twitter dealie is twitter.com/bdrawn in case anybody wants to know what i had for breakfast (kidding hehe)