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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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Twitter is a micro-blogging site. It lets you post a couple lines of text to let people know what you're doing. It has become increasingly popular with politicians, sports franchises, and celebrities. There's just one catch: Twitter doesn't do it well.
On Twitter, you are limited to 140 characters per tweet. On the Facebook equivalent of a tweet, a status update, you can use up to 420 characters. That's right; Facebook is three times better at doing what Twitter does. And Twitter only does THAT ONE FUCKING THING. Facebook is a social networking site with all sorts of other useful features, that is, if you can stand getting 120 MafiaWars invitations each day. And on top of that, Twitter crashes at least once a week. When was the last time Facebook crashed? No one can remember.
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
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It's 140 characters because Twitter was initially used with phones. A SMS message is 140 characters long. Deal with it.
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 You should totally check out the IRC channel.
While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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Dr. Jeebus
Moderator
Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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| Dr. Jeebus wrote: |
| Twitter s indeed fucking useless. I can't wait for something else to become popular instead. |
Like...blogging.
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Ice2SeeYou
Title: Sexual Tyrannosaurus
Joined: Sep 28 2008
Location: South of Heaven
Posts: 1761
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Damn kids with their twitty-pages and their facey-spaces.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
Posts: 5042
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From my twitter:
@Syd_Lexia how much do you really have to say that can't be said in 140 words, if you need more there are always blogs. All done see, easy!!
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Nekkoru
Title: Polish Pickle Wench
Joined: Jan 25 2008
Location: Warsaw, Poland
Posts: 1319
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It's 140 characters, not words.
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You should totally check out the IRC channel.
While you're at it, go check out my band, Her Majesty's Heroines.
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| I now bestow upon you the title of Most Awesome Person. |
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
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| Nekkoru wrote: |
| It's 140 characters, not words. |
Yeah, but I couldn't fit characters ...fuck you
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Deadmau_5pra
Title: Amatuer film/podcaster
Joined: Feb 10 2009
Location: Chicago Area
Posts: 1126
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And like Facebook, it's real easy to "hack" into.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
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| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
| Nekkoru wrote: |
| It's 140 characters, not words. |
Yeah, but I couldn't fit characters ...fuck you |
Wow, point proven or what?
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Dr. Jeebus
Moderator
Title: SLF Harbinger of Death
Joined: Sep 03 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 5228
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| Optimist With Doubts wrote: |
From my twitter:
@Syd_Lexia how much do you really have to say that can't be said in 140 words, if you need more there are always blogs. All done see, easy!! |
The fact that you couldn't fir the word "characters" instead of words is so absurdly ironic it's great.
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Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
Posts: 1443
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I still don't understand the "make money by having 89259692 twitter followers" spam. What's the point?
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Syd Lexia
Site Admin
Title: Pop Culture Junkie
Joined: Jul 30 2005
Location: Wakefield, MA
Posts: 24887
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You could have said "chars" instead of "words". But then Hacker might have thought you meant 140 CharAznables.
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IceWarm
Joined: Dec 22 2008
Location: Breckenridge, Colorado
Posts: 1691
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I too hate Twitter. I only really use it to promote my site/blog.
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MOGHARR
Title: The Original CandyWafer
Joined: Apr 05 2007
Location: Under Jolly Roger
Posts: 2718
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I'm sick of hearing about Twitter. Everywhere I fucking go "dur, new shit on Twitter" shut the fuck up.
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Ross Rifle
Title: Rock N Roll God
Joined: Oct 29 2006
Location: Chilliwack, BC
Posts: 4844
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Slash has been using it to detail the progress on his solo album, which is sweet.
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Optimist With Doubts
Title: Titlating
Joined: Dec 17 2007
Posts: 5042
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Damn people, i was joking, I go to take a nap and you explode. I didn't mean to write characters but realized that it wouldn't fit and replaced it, I merely accidentally put words instead of characters.
for example: Same entry minus with characters minus one word
@Syd_Lexia how much do you really have to say that can't be said in 140 characters, if you need more there are always blogs. All done see?!
But really this is a stupid thing to argue about, if you don't like it then don't go. Twitter will wane away just like other internet fads.
^Also 140
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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| Bouya wrote: |
| I still don't understand the "make money by having 89259692 twitter followers" spam. What's the point? |
Step 1 - Tons of Twitter users.
Step 2 - ???
Step 3 - Profit.
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Andrew Man
Title: Is a Funklord
Joined: Jan 30 2007
Location: Annandale, VA
Posts: 5603
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Big Facebook fan, it is very useful for keeping in touch and staying connected. Twitter is just a stupid fucking fad.
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Chile Guy
Title: Token Latino Otaku
Joined: Apr 14 2008
Location: Fortaleza, Brazil
Posts: 479
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As if I cared about what people are doing and speaking and let people know what I'm doing and what kind of friends I have.
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UsaSatsui
Title: The White Rabbit
Joined: May 25 2008
Location: Hiding
Posts: 7565
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You know, you can always talk to people in IRC
Yep, good ollllllllld IRC.
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GPFontaine
Joined: Dec 06 2007
Location: Connecticut
Posts: 11244
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I think the idea is that you can follow a whole bunch of people if you only have to read one line of text about each of them.
It is a stupid fucking idea.
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Ermac
Title: Thread Killer
Joined: Aug 04 2008
Location: Outworld
Posts: 1512
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| UsaSatsui wrote: |
You know, you can always talk to people in IRC
Yep, good ollllllllld IRC. |
that would mean having to talk to you though JK
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phantasmzombie
Joined: May 22 2009
Location: Cincinnati, OH
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I think the idea is that you can follow a whole bunch of people if you only have to read one line of text about each of them.
It is a stupid fucking idea. |
What they do is, some of them post multiple tweets at a time so if someone is following someone they are reading more than one line of text, most of the time.
Actually, I remember facebook crashing last week. It was even on the news, both twitter and facebook were attacked by hackers.
But yea, twitter sucks ass compared to facebook. I don't "tweet" anything myself, but I have an account to follow some cool people, like Gov. Schwarzenegger and that guy that directed "The Toxic Avenger".
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Bouya
Title: Delinquent
Joined: Aug 15 2007
Location: Suzuran
Posts: 1443
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I sure wish I could develop a site like this that is surely making them good amounts of money. Dunno what the next hot thing will be, though... one-word posts?
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