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cooby Nov 14 2015 08:48 AM

So do those of you on twitter have your phones tweeting all day long with inanities from celebrities and so forth? Doesn't it drive you nuts? Or am I imagining it quite differently from how it is?

d'Kong76 Nov 14 2015 08:58 AM Re: Tweeting

I'm in minority here, and believe Twitter is the spawn of Satan. It's ruined countless things about how the world communicates.

cooby Nov 14 2015 09:30 AM Re: Tweeting

Yeah. This thinking started last night actually when I saw on the news that a trending "tweet" was "Paris is Burning" and that was so far from the truth. The truth of the horror in Paris has nothing to do with fires. I have a friend on facebook whose posts are practically illegible because he puts a # in front of every other word. And otherwise what he would have to say would be interesting but that just makes it junk.

d'Kong76 Nov 14 2015 09:48 AM Re: Tweeting

#truthsister

Ceetar Nov 14 2015 12:13 PM Re: Tweeting

cooby wrote: So do those of you on twitter have your phones tweeting all day long with inanities from celebrities and so forth? Doesn't it drive you nuts? Or am I imagining it quite differently from how it is? I follow a few celebrities (Hi Anna Kendrick!), but what you see is what you choose to see. You pick the people whose tweets appears on your screen. it won't stop all the stupidity, like when you follow a Mets person during the offseason, but for the most part I get all the news and info and pictures i want

Nymr83 Nov 14 2015 03:08 PM Re: Tweeting

Ceetar wrote: cooby wrote: So do those of you on twitter have your phones tweeting all day long with inanities from celebrities and so forth? Doesn't it drive you nuts? Or am I imagining it quite differently from how it is? I follow a few celebrities (Hi Anna Kendrick!), but what you see is what you choose to see. You pick the people whose tweets appears on your screen. it won't stop all the stupidity, like when you follow a Mets person during the offseason, but for the most part I get all the news and info and pictures i want you wouldn't be reffering to a certain Mets writer who tweets about high school basketball all the time would you?

Zvon Nov 14 2015 04:25 PM Re: Tweeting

I'm on twitter but I have no idea what I'm doing there. I'll tweet stuff once in awhile, mostly Mets related. I have followers, mostly Mets people I chose to follow who followed me back. I assume they see my tweets. I just post em and run though. I'll check out my twitter feed while I'm posting but that's about it. I don't read twitter like I would fb or a msg board. To me it doesn't seem like something I'd want to follow. People saying random things all day. I just don't grok twitter yet (and when I finally do everyone will probably stop using it,lol). I don't add any "#"s to my stuff, and the few times I did I probably did it wrong. I use twitter for quick exposure but I have no idea if I get any exposure out of it. I tweeted this today. I applied scavenger art to an existing piece of graphic work I saw on fb, a tribute to yesterday's events. I added the color and the words, and then threw it back out there for sharing. No idea if it was shared. [fimg=400:h9pn1dla]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-fz45kIR3zbk/Vke_P4we5kI/AAAAAAAAjEM/zB6GwFbw5Vk/s596-Ic42/WE%252520STAND%252520TOGETHER1-z15.png[/fimg:h9pn1dla]

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr Nov 14 2015 05:38 PM Re: Tweeting

I'm thinking that "Paris is Burning" may likely have been intended figuratively, Coobs, though I don't doubt that you could find some pretty abhorrent Tweetstuff re: yesterday's events without trying too hard. I read a pretty succinct summary of Twitter the other day (via Tweet!), in which the person wrote that Twitter, during emergencies/world events is about "half up-to-the-minute, rapid-fire news that could not be disseminated with the same speed by any other means... and half of the worst things you could ever hear from a human mouth."

Ceetar Nov 14 2015 06:06 PM Re: Tweeting

Nymr83 wrote: Ceetar wrote: cooby wrote: So do those of you on twitter have your phones tweeting all day long with inanities from celebrities and so forth? Doesn't it drive you nuts? Or am I imagining it quite differently from how it is? I follow a few celebrities (Hi Anna Kendrick!), but what you see is what you choose to see. You pick the people whose tweets appears on your screen. it won't stop all the stupidity, like when you follow a Mets person during the offseason, but for the most part I get all the news and info and pictures i want you wouldn't be reffering to a certain Mets writer who tweets about high school basketball all the time would you? I don't follow that guy. his twitter is unprofessional and callous.

Edgy MD Nov 14 2015 06:40 PM Re: Tweeting

LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr wrote: I read a pretty succinct summary of Twitter the other day (via Tweet!), in which the person wrote that Twitter, during emergencies/world events is about "half up-to-the-minute, rapid-fire news that could not be disseminated with the same speed by any other means... and half of the worst things you could ever hear from a human mouth." The problem is that disinformation/misinformation spreads just as quickly with just as much authority.

Mets – Willets Point Nov 14 2015 06:49 PM Re: Tweeting

I don't follow lots of celebrities, and the ones I do post an occasional ha-ha as opposed to constant blather. I find it useful for keeping up on local politics and events as news media consolidation means that there are fewer reliable sources for such things.