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I still don't get Twitter

There were another two entries on News.com today about Twitter, and I keep asking, who cares?

If you're not familiar with the service, it's like short attention span blogging that can blast everyone with text messages with whatever you post. You can do RSS or view on the Web as well. But honestly, so what?

I mean, aside from Tyler who posts lots of pictures of himself balancing beverages on his knees and sporting Crocs and shades (;)), who needs this? Not only am I not interested in giving the world a play-by-play every time I take a shit, but I'm even less interested in seeing other people do it. It's like the people who change their status on Facebook ten times a day. I just don't care.

It really strikes me as a short-lived tech fad for narcissists and the people who love them. I'm starting to realize that some people spend way too much time being plugged in (and this from someone who makes his living doing so).

Posted: May 30 2007, 10:04 AM by Jeff | with 10 comment(s)
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mxmissile said:

"play-by-play every time I take a shit"

I'm sure Twitter users dont care if you run or pass, they want to know what color it is!

# May 30, 2007 12:56 PM

rams said:

Must be a generation-<whatever> thing. I dont get it either. But you have to give it to Scott Hanselman for leveraging the service cleverly to generate the awareness about diabetes.

# May 30, 2007 1:08 PM

Derek said:

I also don't get the idea.. Or the usefulness of the service. But I agree that Scott probably used it most effectively in raising people's awareness of diabetes.  As for the rest, I really couldn't care.

# May 30, 2007 7:28 PM

szukuro said:

A friend mine once said (more or less): "If you don't get Twitter [or other similiar sites for that matter], then it's not for you". I guess he was right. I don't get it either, but seems like a lot of people do, so it's probably meant for them.
# May 31, 2007 8:01 AM

Ted Jardine said:

My sentiments exactly. I was explaining it to a friend the other day who hadn't heard of it, and the same response.

I'm thinking like @rams above that it's a generation thing - the problem is I start thinking I'm old for not getting this one (and I'm only 30).

# June 6, 2007 12:34 PM

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# March 14, 2008 4:53 PM

davidinark said:

I played with Twitter and just don't understand the appeal.  I'm not even sure it's generational.  I have never heard of Scott whatever nor the diabetes thing.  Guess I have too many other things on my plate.  Once someone can show me the "true" benefit of Twitter, I'll just ignore it and shrug my shoulders whenever the topic comes up, and say, "So?"

# April 17, 2008 9:13 AM

Dee said:

I made a twitter account to try and see what the deal was. I never found a single use for it.

# May 13, 2008 1:18 PM

chris said:

People don't want to be alone. And they sure as hell don't want to appear to be alone.

Watch people walking down the street alone. Or eating in a restaurant alone--they keep checking their cell phones to show us all that they are not alone.

Must be the same twisted energy that powers Twitter.

# June 19, 2008 7:20 AM

Natetronn said:

I think maybe your right. I never realized I did that, the check the cell phone thing, until just now. I kind of like being alone sometimes though, maybe that's why Twitter doesn't appeal to me much. I don't ever text either, maybe the two are related.

# July 9, 2008 1:32 AM
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