Do you use Twitter?

Never have touched it and no plans to. Of course i said the same thing about Facebook and I have a very quiet FB page collecting dust now after a few months of activity.

 

I have one...but I've noticed I normally only use it when I'm out drinking, as it curbs my drunk texting habit

Most of the people I follow are friends, or bands--- so I know when a new tour is starting, if an unexpected show is being played, that kind of thing.

Most of the people I follow are for entertainment value, rather than informational. Wil Wheaton is probably my favorite. Carrie Fisher always makes me giggle.

 

I'm still head-in-the-sand about it. I'd heard of it, and gone 'Lah lah lah lah'. Then Joe Rogan on UFC got excited about it. It was late at night and I was half asleep, so I joined, clicked to 'follow' Dana White, read a few incomprehensible messages, and have not been back since. It was an excersise in confusion which put me off. I feel like I am a member of the 'out crowd', though, because millions of people seem to be comfortably navigating it.

I'll enjoy following this thread, because I reckon, as has already happened, there will be posts giving hints on how it works and what it could be useful for.

 

Absolutely not. If I ever have to tell someone in two sentences that I plan on going to the bathroom I log onto here and tell them.

 

^ What he said
I got a facebook account but every 'friend" is family or near family

 

I briefly tried Twitter to follow a particular celebrity (I was invited to do so personally) but quit after finding it quite creepy. I had no intention of tweeting, yet within an hour of creating an account I had people following me. I soon deleted my account.

If nothing else, one-way conversations don't interest me much.

 

I love Twitter.

I follow (and am followed) by a number of friends. I also follow some people I don't know in person but like to hear what they have to say.

I write on it, not with the intent that it will be read (though I know it is) but rather I use it as a micro blog. Sometimes it is my random thoughts out into the ether, other times it's my ongoing commentary about the taxis I take.

One of the best twitter feeds I follow is a writer in Toronto that is known for his writing on his walks around the city. He has been tweeting his walks for the past year or so and, for me, it's like walking through Toronto with him.

 

@kefra

it took a bit to get used to twitter but now i quite like it. of course you can't say much in 140 characters, but that's kinda ok. i follow lots of lit journals and strange record labels and writers and musicians. and some political people/organizations. it's a fine link dump. not so many friends, though. follow me and i can start changing that.

 

why not walk around Toronto?

 

he lives in singapore.

 

so either get a ticket to Toronto or walk around Sinapore

 

umm. y'okay, bro.

 

i choose facebook. Twitter to me seems confusing

 

Yes. I enjoy tweeting and the true challenge is to write about a topic in less than or equal to 140 characters that people will understand.

@Sir_Jove

 

For people who claim not to use the service, there sure are a lot of opinions about what the service is an how it is used...

As mixedmedia has pointed out, I no longer live in Toronto. I do like to walk around Singapore and have even used it as an opportunity to post on Twitter about some of the discoveries I've made.

As for why I would like to read posts by someone that likes to post to Twitter as they walk around a city, you might just as well ask why do people read editorials about politics. Shouldn't those readers, instead of reading some person's insights or commentary, just become politicians?

Like anything, some writers have something to say and others don't. If you aren't interested, don't buy the newspaper, read the blog or follow on Twitter.