Twitter?

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6549 Posts Couve / Hood Honored Founder

Does anyone here use Twitter? I like Facebook but Twitter I just don't get.

Pete · Since 29 Oct 2007 844 Posts Opinionated

I don't get it either.

hilton · Since 15 Aug 2008 806 Posts Opinionated

Temira is encouraging people to use Twitter to post onsite wind reports.

"Speaking of, if you’re on Twitter, don’t forget to tweet your windsurfing/kiting onsite reports. Windsurfers, tag with #gorgewind, and kiters, tag with #gorgekite. In your tweet, include location, average sail/kite size, time, and current conditions."

It could be quite useful if enough people were posting up-to-date and accurate reports from all the launch sites.

Chooch · Thu Aug 27, 09 10:53 am

Yeah I don't get it either. Plus the name is fucking annoying.

Blue · Since 03 Jul 2007 469 Posts I used to be Obsessed

Sella · Thu Aug 27, 09 11:14 am

If it rhymes with "Shitter"...something's up. Seriously, I don't get it either and social media dominating the future of business communication doesn't have me sold yet.

I do like nwkite and 2nd Wind FB updates however.

jbruxer · Since 24 Jul 2005 398 Posts Beaverton, OR Obsessed

jbruxer is at his computer replying to a post about twitter on nwkite.....oh, wait, crap....wrong application. Laughing

I agree with the rest of you in that I just don't get it.

Onad · Thu Aug 27, 09 12:09 pm

It's for celebrities, movie stars and pro athletes. You know; for people that have lives soooo interesting, other people want to follow their every move… Rolling Eyes

Don't let your boss see this: http://www.calgaryherald.com/business/fp/Companies+clamp+down+Twitter+Facebook+study/1913526/story.html

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the author's profile page and delivered to the author's subscribers who are known as followers. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends or, by default, allow open access. Users can send and receive tweets via the Twitter website, Short Message Service (SMS) or external applications. While the service costs nothing to use, accessing it through SMS may incur phone service provider fees.

Since its creation in 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Twitter has gained notability and popularity worldwide. It is sometimes described as the "SMS of the Internet"[3] since the use of Twitter's application programming interface for sending and receiving short text messages by other applications often eclipses the direct use of Twitter.

Twitter is ranked as one of the 50 most popular websites worldwide by Alexa's web traffic analysis.[4] Although estimates of the number of daily users vary because the company does not release the number of active accounts, a February 2009 Compete.com blog entry ranked Twitter as the third most used social network[5] based on their count of 6 million unique monthly visitors and 55 million monthly visits.[5] In March 2009, a Nielsen.com blog ranked Twitter as the fastest-growing site in the Member Communities category for February 2009. Twitter had a monthly growth of 1,382 percent, Zimbio of 240 percent, followed by Facebook with an increase of 228 percent.[6] However, only 40 percent of Twitter's users are retained.[7]

KidCorporate · Since 10 Jul 2007 563 Posts Addicted

thefiestysoldier · Since 24 Aug 2009 7 Posts Happy Valley New Member

Users of Twitter post everything they are thining every second of the day, I have an account but dont post updates, just follow people (subscribe to their updates). It can be useful such as CNN's feed which can break news before it is even on TV. I personally dont care what my friends are thinking about 24/7 and I dont want to tell everyone what I'm thinking about 24/7. One other kind of useful thing about it (not really) is that some people create accounts for their plants and set up a program to update twitter when they need water.

shymac · Since 20 Jul 2005 919 Posts Home Valley, Wa. Bigfoot

Twit for sure... You can follow http://twitter.com/Slingshot_Kite

Get up to date ya' heard before it hits mainstream... Cool

K4L · Since 19 Jan 2009 483 Posts Obsessed

In general it is retarded IMHO. But certain aplications work, as mentioned the Temira wind reports which I apreciate when looking for the live wind and post to when I can, and Slingshot type info.

Tommy · Thu Aug 27, 09 11:42 pm

The wind update/site report idea is a good one, and it could work if everyone were carrying around an iphone or blackberry and got coverage everywhere they went. But then, I kind of like not carrying around an iphone or blackberry and not getting coverage everywhere I go...

KitesurferRO · Since 22 Jun 2009 84 Posts Â

What Does Google Think of Twitter?

http://mashable.com/2009/08/11/google-twitter-search/

pkh · Since 27 Feb 2005 6549 Posts Couve / Hood Honored Founder

The wind reports thing is kind of interesting, I guess my buddys and I have been doing that for years. The problem with that is:

1) The conditions almost always change by the time you get to the beach

2) Why do I want to tell everyone in the world that conditions are good at the spot I am at?

3) There's these wind sensor doohickey's that give you a real-time scientific assessment of the wind, not somebody's opinion of the wind an hour ago.

Anyway, Twitter has some interesting potential uses. I am just tired of it getting so much airplay. Its like a few years ago when everyone was talking about "Blogs" ... really who gives a shit if you know the latest buzz word.

Guess I am just a disgruntled, set in his ways, old school web user who gets nostalgic about Mosaic and Trumpet Winsock Shocked

... actually to hell with that, remember BBS', 2400 baud modems? that shit was illmatic. Wink

forrest · Fri Aug 28, 09 7:14 am

Ah, the good ole days.

Seriously, the problem with twitter is that it should exist entirely on your mobile platform and not even bother with your PC. That's how most people that use twitter use it. Who wants to sit in front of a PC and refresh twitter home page over and over? But getting all the updates from your friends on your phone is pretty sweet. For me it's a way of following a bunch of security researchers and what they're working on so I can stay up to date with my job.

Gman · Since 11 Feb 2006 4911 Posts Portland Unstrapped