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Post by **Doreen Peri** » February 3rd, 2009, 11:59 pm

do any of you twitter?

Post by **Lightning Rod** » February 4th, 2009, 12:30 am

in these days of economic chaos
one thing that I welcome
is an innovative way to waste time

Post by **Doreen Peri** » February 4th, 2009, 8:44 am

i know nothing about it. You can't even get into it to look at it and see how it works unless you sign up for it.

Just wondering what it is.

I hear about it on the news all the time. It's a widely used site.

Even Obama's camp has mentioned Twitter.

What happens there? Does anybody use it? How does it work?

Is it like facebook? or?

Post by **stilltrucking** » February 4th, 2009, 9:25 am

http://www.slate.com/id/2163861/pagenum/all/

twitter cartoon

Post by **Jacob** » February 5th, 2009, 8:01 pm

I don't really see the pint of Twitter, which is just used as a means to send miscellaneous updates...or so I think. Don't feel a huge need to sign up for things like that, especially when not lots of things are happening.

Post by **mtmynd** » February 5th, 2009, 8:23 pm

i heard said that twitter is where one answers the pressing question: "What are you doing?" within a limited about of words, i.e. there are only so many letters one can use in each posting.

Post by **izeveryboyin** » February 6th, 2009, 3:27 am

It's like the Facebook updates. In website form. Sort of. As far as I kow that's all you can really do with it. But I'm already addicted to facebook. Let's not add another cyber vice.

--k

Post by **judih** » February 6th, 2009, 5:14 am

friends who 'twitter' also 'twitter' on facebook. Once i'm on facebook, i already know who's stuck in traffic, who's typing just because they can, and who is alive.
It's all information.
i wouldn't twitter - i feel degenerate enough facebooking. i like being invisible except when i want to be.
but i text message with a cell. when it rings, i don't necessarily have to answer, but i like being able to read or send a text messages. E-mails hardly make a dent with a lot of people, but text messages seem to stimulate response.

instant messaging on the go - small planet, faster than a phone call, twitter makes sense for people who like those mini-seconds of contact with their friends too far away to visit.

Post by **Doreen Peri** » February 6th, 2009, 3:41 pm

Ohhh... I see. Well thank you all for the info! Interesting. I donno why anyone would want to just do the status thing over and over when facebook offers so much more!

jack, the article you posted was very informative.

judih, i think you summarized the 21st century electronic contact age quite well!

Post by **Dave The Dov** » February 8th, 2009, 7:28 am

I belong to Twitter!!!! It's good to see what others are doing. But I wouldn't want to wrap myself around it all the time!!!!

Post by **Jacob** » February 14th, 2009, 5:27 pm

izeveryboyin wrote:It's like the Facebook updates. In website form. Sort of. As far as I kow that's all you can really do with it. But I'm already addicted to facebook. Let's not add another cyber vice.

--k

This post explains exactly how I feel.

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