# My one Twitter follower left me :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 9, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129 "2010-09-09T01:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![campp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/21 "2010-09-10T15:19:04Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > > [@campp](#): > > > > Well, in my case I’m looking for a job. You have to join Twitter so you can access another site called TweetMyJobs, a job hunting site. That’s the ONLY reason I joined. :o > > …which is a defensive way of saying you joined Twitter, don’t follow anybody, don’t post anything, don’t look around the site, don’t interact with anyone, and now proudly declare Twitter stupid. > > I mean, feel free to pretend you know everything there is to know about Twitter from a two year old Penny Arcade comic, but don’t be surprised when one of the millions of people who get real, solid, use out of it every day calls you on it. Call me on what exactly? I just said it was _silly_, you’re the one that said some posters “proudly call it stupid”. I thought this was the MPSIMS forum? Geez, calm down! :rolleyes: (also, sorry, I never heard of that comic strip either). ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/22 "2010-09-10T15:25:27Z")
You guys are all using Twitter wrong (well, different than how I use it). It makes a great customized news feed. I follow about twenty “people,” but they are mostly news sources (some local, some national, a few specialized ones). Also websites that relate to some of my hobbies, some alerts to free entertainment in my area, and a few favorite comics. I never tweet anything out; I just use it to bring the exact information that I want in to me. ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/23 "2010-09-10T15:40:15Z")
> [@campp](#): > > Call me on what exactly? I just said it was _silly_, you’re the one that said some posters “proudly call it stupid” You’re right, you called it a “silly” “worthless waste of time.” Completely different. Yeah, I get annoyed when people ignorantly say Twitter is worthless, the same way I got annoyed when people ignorantly said text messaging was worthless, and when people ignorantly said message boards and other online communities were worthless, and when people ignorantly said e-mail was worthless. Amazing technologies come along every so often, but there’s always a segment of the population that sticks their head in the sand and smugly declares it to be “worthless” even though they don’t know the first thing about it. Granted, Twitter is more a case of an innovation being in the right place at the right time, rather than a new technology, but it’s one of the most useful communication tools in the First World today. Denying that out of hand is what wastes everybody’s time. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/24 "2010-09-10T16:30:27Z")
Folks, it’s okay to disagree, but please avoid making personal attacks on others in the course of doing so. Thanks, **twickster** , MPSIMS moderator ---
**Author:** ![Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troy_mcclure_sf/32/4150_2.png) [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troy_McClure_SF)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/25 "2010-09-10T17:10:25Z")
Acknowledged. I stand by my point that it’s ridiculous to claim something is worthless without making even a token attempt to learn anything about it. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/26 "2010-09-10T17:23:31Z")
> [@Troy\_McClure\_SF](#): > > Acknowledged. > > I stand by my point that it’s ridiculous to claim something is worthless without making even a token attempt to learn anything about it. IT’S WORTHLESS!!! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/27 "2010-09-10T17:27:39Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > > [@Markxxx](#): > > > > No _South Park_ fans on this thread? They did an excellent show on this subject. > > They did one on _Facebook_, which was about the desperate competitive need to be “friended”. _Twitter_ isn’t really like that. You’re right, good catch ---
**Author:** ![Greenback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/2bfe46/32.png) [@Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greenback)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129/28 "2010-09-10T17:28:25Z")
Twitter is like Facebook but without all the Farmville et al updates. That was enough of a selling point for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-one-twitter-follower-left-me/553129.md?page=1)