twittering? more like FWITTERING away your time...can someone

[katty]

please explain to me WHY tweeting, twitting, twittering.. TYPING is(every thought bubble you have) so damn attractive? yeah, you can call it 'texting' all you want...it's still boring, old typing.

[NYCGirl]

1. Psssssttt…

What you just posted is boring, old typing.















And so is this.

[gatorboy]

4. And at close to 140 Characters I believe they just made a tweet.

Congratulations!

[katty]

10. i guess so - if you say so - guilty as charged!

[Bill McBlueState]

2. your profile says you've done that around 9000 times on this website

Others' motivations for posting to Twitter may be similar to your motivation for posting on DU.

[mikelgb]

3. You should tweet that.

but you'll have to truncate to 140 chars

[librechik]

5. heheheh...cell phones R kewl...

soon enough their brains will rot out from the microwave exposure and nobody will even remember how to tw...tw..do that. Welcome to the future.

[NYCGirl]

6. Wouldn't want that. I'm going back to using 2 Dixie cups and a string for

my communication!

[gatorboy]

7. I prefer using my howler monkey to pass on information.

Hold on, I'm getting a call.... Oh shit. It's a party line.

[NYCGirl]

8. LOL! But my Dixie cups need no feeding or cleaning up after!

Not as cute, though.

[stuball111]

9. I joined the twitter thing..

But never could figure the attraction, let alone how to work it. Just a fad I suppose, It's much more fun arguing here at DU:hi:

[Chemisse]

11. I agree - it is really not the same, imo - nt

[ecstatic]

12. I don't get it either

but I've always been a private person.

[Codeine]

13. In contrast, your short, content-free post was what? Fucking Proust?

Jesus, is it Cranky Old Person Day at this place?

[katty]

17. lordy, don't get yr knickers in a bunch!!

[proud2BlibKansan]

14. I love it

It's a quick and easy way to read the news. I have so little time during the day and reading Tweets takes little time.

[KamaAina]

15. I'm following a national disability rights action using it

http://twitter.com/nationalADAPT

Gov. Perdue (R-Complete Waste Of Oxygen) has apparently granted them a meeting with his chief of staff tomorrow! :wow:

[Princess Turandot]

16. It's good for receiving alerts on things you are interested in, for one thing..

I've a firefox add-on that puts a Twitter link on my bottom browser bar. As one example, I follow some landmark preservation groups which 'tweet' when they post new news on their web sites.
The add-on lets me know a new tweet arrived. I could set these up as Google alerts or RSS feeds etc. but using Twitter to learn about them is faster than going to a web page every day, reading then deleting alert emails etc. I click on the twitter icon in FF, a little message box pops up, I see what they posted abt in abt 2 seconds, then either go to the web page via their link, or go back to what I was doing.

It's also useful in my case to let some people know that I'm still alive lol since I'm not the most diligent email-er and I hate talking on the phone.

[katty]

18. got it-sounds like it really is working for you - glad to hear it