Someone please explain Twitter to me
October 17, 2007 | 2:15 pmok, so what’s the deal with Twitter? I mean, so, you set up an account, and then all you do is keep updating your status? That’s it? and then you get to post a widget (see right hand side column “what i’m doing”) that gives a live feed of what you’re doing, as long as you keep updating it.
The good news is you can update by IM (not sure why you would want to) or by cell phone SMS (that is handy, this morning, as i was running for the bus, i SMS’ed “I’m running for the bus” and hey presto! my blog readers knew i was running for the bus)… so, short of knowing when i went to the bathroom, you guys know everything i did today… but, um, what’s the point? we all know i’ll be bored with this, this time friday…
ok, so you can follow other peole, and, technically, the widget on the right could have the updates of all these other people. Right now, i’m following Steve Jobs (CEO of Apple has time to twitter, apparently) and Mark Zuckerberg, founder of facebook… how do i know it’s even them? …and again, I ask, what’s the point? Do i care that Bill Gates has Vista SP1 on his PC right now?
HELP! someone please explain twitter to me….
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ok, so i’ll slowly learning about twitter. turns out i can follow bill clinton too, whoo-hoo…
oh, and apparently, contantly updating your twitter with stuff about what you had for lunch or about your cat is considered boring… i’ll have to remember that one!
It’s like allowing people to cyber stalk you … weird.
yeah, exactly, not sure i actually WANT people to know where i am every single moment. To me twitter sounds like complete and utter navel-gazing, there’s a level of self-centeredness (very technical term) here that just baffles the mind.
It’s cool man. That;s why ya use it.
Funny thing is what if you have no friends who use twitter? So your twittering everytime you eat cheetos and go to the bathroom, but nobody even knows or cares. Maybe its for when you forget what you were doing, so you can check twitter and see oh yeah..I was watching the tube.
I don’t know, I’m with you, I don’t get it.