Do you twitter?

[SmileyRose]

Poll question: Do you twitter?

I have never been on it and see no point. Nothing against anyone who does, it's just not appealing to me. Wrong generation maybe, I dunno.

Inane poll I know, but I curious since the last week has given us at least 30 "twitter" posts regarding various RW whackjobs.

[flvegan]

1. No. n/t

[Pab Sungenis]

2. Yes.

Twitter name is @sungenis

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. No, and I don't know how you do it, either...

:shrug:

[DesertFlower]

11. me either. i don't know how to

text either. :hi:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. I haven't done THAT, either!

I guess I must be retarded, lol!

:hi:

[blonndee]

4. No, I'm a facebook addict.

I much prefer facebook, lots more action. :)

[SmileyRose]

6. There's another one I don't understand.

The local money guru Clark Howard and various career gurus claim social networking sites are perfect for getting a great job. The only person I know who facebooked lost her job because she was facebooking at work. :)

[blonndee]

22. Oh gosh, I wouldn't think it would help anybody get a job!

In fact, I think most people's experience w/FB might be closer to that of the person you describe :) I'm not THAT addicted, but I do find it great to keep in touch with my friends. Many of us are really busy with graduate school and teaching, so we don't run into each other or even talk on the phone as often as we would like. Facebook is a quick and convenient way to communicate and have fun wherever we are and whenever we'd like. It also has a lot of fun and silly apps and ways to post pictures, links, etc., to share with others.

[Lex]

5. Yes. Interesting if you know how to use the # hashtags and who to follow.

nt

[WorseBeforeBetter]

7. It's fun to bash wingnuts on Twitter.

And I like the 140-character challenge, with as few abbreviations as possible. I follow The Nation, Rails-to-Trails, Mark Morford, my local indie paper, etc. And I just applied to a job at a local hospital I found through my newsfeed...we'll see.

[salvorhardin]

8. Yes

I use Twitter all the time. In fact, I met most of my friends in this city originally via Twitter. I'm @neuralgourmet.

[donheld]

9. No but I can get twitterpated.

[XemaSab]

10. I can twitter, drive at 80mph and macarena simultaneously.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NZjHKfbbiQ

[Bryan]

13. I go over there and rubberneck sometimes.

My life is not interesting enough to make Twitter-length messages interesting, but when I'm online, I like to view the pages of semi-celebrities who've learned how to work it, like Warren Ellis and James Urbaniak.

[Norrin Radd]

21. Ooh! Didn't know James Urbaniak had one. Thanks for the heads up.

[Contrary1]

14. Well, that depends.

As myself...no.

As a pompous, jackass, right wingnut, who has a radio show and also appears on a news network...??
Repubs sure are gullible. :evilgrin:

[Raine]

15. No, I don't have time for it

plus even if I did I wouldn't cause I have an addictive personality and don't need to get hooked on it. :yoiks:

[Zavulon]

16. No. I had to create an account because I lost a bet, but

as you can see, I have done nothing with it: http://twitter.com/zavul0n .

Still, 20 people follow me even though I have yet to uncork a single tweet since creating this account at least a couple of months ago. I'll never understand Twitter.

I haven't logged in since creating the account and can't even remember the password, so I guess the answer to your question depends on what your definition is: if "to twitter" means "having an account," then yes. If anything more than that at all is required, then no.

[T_i_B]

17. Signed up 2 weeks ago

Twitter actually had a very fine time of things yesterday when a glut of activity on that site caused #Trafigura and #CarterRuck to become the numbers 1 and 2 trending topics, and caused a gagging order preventing a national newspaper from reporting on parliament to be lifted.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=191x28287

[Vidar]

18. No.

[DesertRat]

19. Yes. And

I'm over 50.

[JI7]

20. it's only useful with things like election updates, or with what went on in Iran protests

and similar things.

but i don't care to read about every moment of a person's life.

[Soylent Brice]

23. only in the privacy of my own home. n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

24. Other.... twittered a bunch but now taking a break. It's frustrating keeping tweets

to 140 characters. :)

[last_texas_dem]

25. Yeah

I've been surprised at how much I enjoy it, as I've found other "social networking" sites (Facebook and company) kind of lame...

Maybe I enjoy twitter 'cause I'm not using it for "networking," but more for following news and political commentary, and keeping up with a few of my friends. It helped that my three best friends and I all got on around the same time, so we always had someone to talk to; I think many sign up and quickly drop off 'cause they feel like they're just kind of sending a bunch text messages to no one (since they know no one else or very few others, and thus their "tweets" go unresponded to) and don't see the point of it.

Oh yeah, I'm @catfiss if anyone wants to follow... I follow a few other DUers on there.

[bigwillq]

26. I have an account

but don't use it very often.

[JitterbugPerfume]

27. no

I have no idea how , nor do I care.

[baldguy]

28. After my 6th or 7th cup of coffee I twitch sometimes.

Does that count?

[NYCGirl]

29. Yep, you can find me as @baileymarkham NT

[tabbycat31]

30. yes and I like it

[Razoor]

31. dont see the point

I dont think I have that much of a interesting life to tweet about but I have facebook and I rarely update my status on that.