What the hell is this Twitter crap? MSNBC is all a-Twitter. Congress is all a-Twitter.

[Stinky The Clown]

Seriously, what is it? A new form of IM?

Do I want to get involved?

Will it endear me to younger people?

Will I seem more hip?

Can I use it at the nursing home?

Is it okay to use in restaurants?

Seriously .... what IS it?

Ignore the picture. I can't help myself.

[Catch22Dem]

1. Think of it as a blog where each post is just a few words. (n/t)

[jannyk]

2. You are not alone

I've never twittered either.

I'd never 'Facebooked' until last month when my 84 year old British parents sent me a link to their Facebook page!!

[aquart]

6. I can imagine that was a shock.

[BlooInBloo]

3. Think email distribution list. Short messages. Phones can receive them too.

Gawd this is getting tedious.

And it's not a republican plot.


EDIT: Clarified subject. And google is your friend, not your enemy.

[Posteritatis]

10. You can set your watch by these threads now, can't you?

(Also, one of the clearer answers I've seen so far, and certainly better than the popular Orwell and/or narcissism claims.)

[BlooInBloo]

19. Pretty much. It would make good data for studying the spread of news stories, though.

:rofl:


EDIT: Oh yah - forgot the posterchild example of how "republicans love twitter": http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/02/virginia-gop-chairmans-blog-outreach-massive-fail.php

[Stinky The Clown]

22. What's on *your* wrist .....

Must be hell being so superior and all ...... quite a cross to bear.

:eyes:

[Stinky The Clown]

24. You're right

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=jerk&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&oq=

[BlooInBloo]

26. Too bad you can't harness that tremendous cognitive ability to learn something on your own.

[Stinky The Clown]

28. Too bad you can't harness that abrasive nature to smooth wood

[Stinky The Clown]

30. I gotta suggestion for you

Do something nice for a change .... answer this one comprehensively. You're smart. Help out a dumbass like me.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5136050

[LSparkle]

4. Seems to be the "hip internet tool" of choice among Repugs ...

Makes sense if the messages are all short -- those Regressives
have short attention spans ...

[tangent90]

5. Apparently it's one who twits.

Happily, I know none.
:D

[Rick Myers]

7. Stinky!!!

Your post was a Twitter!!! It's a way of sending out messages restricted to 140 words...

It's a stupid site that is tthis month's pet rock!!!

[Canuckistanian]

8. If you USE the term "hip", you ain't hip

Or so I've been told.

[Stinky The Clown]

9. I'm closer to hip replacement than I am to just plain hip.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. Web 2.0 flavor of the month.

Oddly, last month's flavor was the expression "Web 2.0"

[npincus]

12. Karma Sutra, position 614.

[Stinky The Clown]

14. Oh yeah ...... that's where the guy backs up to a keyhole ......

.... and the woman ....... uh ......


I got nuttin'. :shrug:

[Cerridwen]

13. It makes me think of a 21st century version of the CB craze. (edited)

Breaker, breaker, one nine.

There ya go, good buddy.

Watch out for them smokeys.

Catch ya on the flip side.

10-4 (and all that rot).

Yeah, I was lousy at CB.

:rofl:

Criminey, Stinky. I think I'm almost ready to start yellin' at kids to "GET OFF MY LAWN!!!"

[Stinky The Clown]

25. Wudda ya mean "start"

I get shit flung at my front door on Halloween. :)

[Cerridwen]

29. Pffft!

I think that means you have a few years on me.

:P

:D

[deminks]

15. Seems like R's are getting caught putting the 'twit' in twitter lately

One of 'em posted last night that they should be at a ballgame rather than at the Obama joint session speech, and later had to 'tweet' that that post should be disregarded because it was from his staffer.

Honestly, I don't know any more about it than you, except the R's use it and I want to stay away.

[Posteritatis]

17. They use internet forums too, so why are you here? (nt)

[Posteritatis]

16. Your answers, in order:

Sooooortakinda; Bloo's "email distribution list for short messages" is a closer answer, but people do use it as a kind of delayed IM a lot of the time. The uses vary wildly by individual; some folks use them for announcements, some for conversations, some for hey-look-at-this-link-I-just-found, etc. Anyone who says "twitter is used for (single task)" is wrong.

I dunno, do you?

Depends on the younger person.

Also depends on the audience.

You can.

Sure, if your phone's set to vibrate like a civilized person.

See the first answer.

[Tesha]

18. It's the latest way to shout "Look at me! Look at me!" (NT)

[customerserviceguy]

20. I've always considered

"social networking" sites (that didn't have a distinct political bent!) to be just places where perverts find little kids to prey on...

[BluePatriot21]

21. I started twitter over the last few weeks

I had heard Karl Rove was on there and I wanted to hound him, so I joined. I now send out what I call (tweets from the future!) that talk about how he is in prison, or on the lamb or bush is on the stand now crying etc. Karl followed me (how you connect to each others groups) as well so I think he gets them still, but not sure if he reads them (I hope he does). Most people use it to link small messages, and its already been breaking news stories faster than real news organizations, so speed wise it is getting info out there quickly.

You can get links to stories, or send friends quick bursts of what you just did, send out quotes, link news or other useless tid bits or pics.

I was thinking of making the sequel to twitter using only 130 words, but someone would only come out with 120 word twitter :(

[Duer 157099]

23. Why not just go completely minimalist? Twittericons

Emoticons only

[Thickasabrick]

27. Many old people have discovered the magic of texting through

Twitter. I actually think it's good they are finally catching up.