This is a tasty bit of thought provoking info. Thank you, TwoCarrotSnowman.
In a way that called him and anyone else who uses Twitter a twit. If you’d given your second post first, I don’t think anyone would care. As it is, it came off as threadshitting.
Note to mods: A statement of opinion, not an attempt to moderate the threaeshitting rule.
Personally, I don’t bother with the following part. My account exists to reply or tweet at people, usually online content creators. It just often is better than email or any other contact method at getting to them.
If I want to see what someone has said, I check out their Twitter page directly.
BigT your help isn’t needed. I dealt with this guy a week ago. Your opinion isn’t appropriate in this thread and it is Jr Modding.
Drop it.
I find it the best way to keep up with breaking news. My twitter feed is mainly politics, and I generally keep that out of other social media.
Now, bearing in mind that current moderation SEEMS to imply that “I don’t use twitter” is considered theadshitting, let me say this:
If all you want to do is read someone’s twitter feed, you don’t need an account and you don’t need to follow them. It’s there on Twitter’s website.
You’ll miss out on “push” notification of new tweets. For my use case – organizational Twitter feeds used as notification/news service, such as Blizzard’s @Blizzardcs feed – I don’t need notification. I need to see if there’s a current notice that affects something I’m trying to do, like login server problems for World of Warcraft.
More like a bulletin board than a ticker tape.
So I don’t twitter actively, and I don’t follow. I just use Twitter as a status and notice website.
I only use twitter for political news. I follow my local & state officials (and a few others), and of course The King of Twitter, Donald J Trump. IMS, when I started following my local politicians, I began to see their responses to The Donald’s tweets & it’s hilarious. Ted Lieu in particular is very vocally opposed to Donald’s fake news, so it’s pretty entertaining.
If you are not a fan of the President, then check out #trumpregrets, for some catharsis.
That is not true, as evidenced by other posters who have said they do not use it and we’re not mod noted. Calling those who do use it “twits” as part of your declaration that you don’t use it, crosses the line.
Other president-related advice. If you want to catch the occasional DJT-tweet, but don’t want to contribute to his follower-count, follow accounts like @MatureTrumpTwts (which retweets his rants with an accompanying mention of whatever imporant issue he should have cared about, like the marine aircraft crash or the mosque bombing) and @realDonaldCntxt (WP posting about which TV-show he’s responding to when it’s not clear what he’s on about), or politically active people you actually like who’re likely to comment on his tweets.
Many people think Twitter is nothing more than a cesspool of racist bigotry, but they’re wrong. It’s also filled with misogynistic rants too.
For me, Twitter just doesn’t allow enough space to express yourself. In 140 characters, all you can really do is have a URL to something else, or rant. It’s a perfect platform for certain political leaders who shan’t be named. (Cough! Trump! Cough!).
However, there are tailor-made occasions when Twitter becomes absolutely essential:
- Quick notifications. I am part of a committee that takes care of an eruv. It’s a religious thing, so I won’t bore you on the details. However, we need to let people know whether or not the eruv is “up”. Twitter is perfect for this. You open the app, write a few words, and press the Tweet button. Instantly, hundreds of other people get the status. It’s especially helpful that you can setup your smartphone to get these alerts without wading into the stench pit that is Twitter.
Even better, I can connect other things to this Twitter account. We have a webpage, and our Twitter feed appears on the webpage which means looking at our webpage, and you get the latest status on the eruv. I have also created a Facebook account and connected that to the eruv’s Twitter feed to that. Now, people can follow the eruv’s status on Facebook.
So, by just using Twitter, I can provide updates in three different ways and it’s completely automatic.
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Customer Service. Since Tweets are public, I’ve found I can get the best customer service on Twitter. Companies are anxious to look good, so sending a customer service query gets you answers really, really fast.
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When the hellmouth has opened up and civilization as you know it has ended. I live in New Jersey and when Super Storm Sandy hit, the entire state – except for four tiny communities – had no electricity for days. Without electricity, there is no gasoline because you need electricity for the pumps to work. Without electricity, there are no traffic lights, and driving means taking your life into your hands. Without electricity, everything in your fridge turns into a microbe funland. Without electricity, there is no coffee, and all the coffee shops are closed. Yes, you’re officially are free to panic now.
Twitter kept me informed about roads that were blocked due to downed trees, where power was coming back on line, opened stores and coffee shops (and after three days without coffee, even Starbucks looks pretty darn good). For three days, I sent out hundreds of tweets and followed dozens of people. Then, the power came back on, and I haven’t looked at my Twitter account since.
I’m not a fan of Twitter. I’ve tried following a few favorite celebrities, but even the most cerebral sound banal after a half dozen 140 character spews. They feel they must tweet or otherwise people will unfollow them, but then they end up being just annoying. Many just end up sharing videos and other posts which I either already knew about, or didn’t care about. I’ve tried tweeting myself, but everything I wrote sounded like a rant. And, then I got dozens and dozens of robo-followers who yes’d everything I said, and tried to sell me pills to increase the size of my manhood.
When it works, it’s a godsend and when it doesn’t, it’s hell on earth.