Twitter C/D

i been remembering my dreams a lot lately

dunno why

Need more people to follow. Interesting actual people this time, not ilxors (not that ilxors are not etc etc)

i still don't understand twitter, and i have facebook so i already have a method of microblogging, but i've decided to get a twitter so i can follow shaq.

okay here's what bugs me, maybe it's easily fixable, but certain accounts i would like to follow are 75% replies to other comments, and since i don't see the original comment there's absolutely no context and it's totally unintelligible.

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Need more people to follow. Interesting actual people this time

No one can be fecking interesting in 140 characters.

^ Absolute balls. Sorry. That's the whole principle of editing: can you grab people's interest in a sentence? I quite accept that "a lot of people can't be interesting in 140 characters", but they're not going to be any more interesting in 1,400,000, either.

The joy of a good Tweet is that piques the interest *and* has a link to more information.

In a nutshell: microblogging >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> blogging.

Twitter = "Typing What I'm Thinking To Everyone Reading"

tl; dr. Tweets should be 140 pixels.

http://www.rappersontwitter.com/rappers

No one can be fecking interesting in 140 characters.

― one art, please (Trayce), Wednesday, February 25, 2009 11:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

stephenfry Director just casually dropped a bombshell. I have to ride a mule tomorrow. A thousand boiling arses. Two hours up a mountain. Buttery fuck.
about 18 hours ago from Tweetie

The joy of a good Tweet is that piques the interest *and* has a link to more information.

Yeah, I like the dudes who link to cool videos/articles more than the dudes who prattle on about their lives (unless they're Shaq).

Telling everyone what you're doing is purely fucking boring. You has to go the extra mile.

Yes well its all well and good to use Stephen Fry as the only example which is what everyone's been doing for weeks. The man says poo and bum a lot, bravo for him.

Sorry, Ive had like half an hours sleep and I am in a foul mood.

I'm having trouble choosing sides in the LeVar Burton / Michael Ian Black conflict.

sticking by this one

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/eno-twitter.png

Notice "Do something boring" is a recent entry.

Fakery!

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/technology/2009/02/latest-phony-tw.html

stephenfry Director just casually dropped a bombshell. I have to ride a mule tomorrow. A thousand boiling arses. Two hours up a mountain. Buttery fuck.
about 18 hours ago from Tweetie

"Buttery fuck" wins Swear of the Month.

totally digging the eno twitter

Trayce, perhaps we all use Fry as an example because he IS a good example. If he were the ONLY example I wouldn't be wasting my time with it.

Well he's the only good example anyone's shown me thus far. Eno doesnt count, because that's just his obscure strategies things and you can get them online already anyway.

Well, there are links to interesting things, too, and new strategies. Pretty sure "No pants!" isn't canon. Yet.

Also, yer just being obstinate. No need to plan your day around tweets, but sometimes they're fun, is all.

Yeah, Trayce is missing the point (but I did for years too so that's not a criticism).

If there's a point, I'm afraid I'm not really interested :)

A caveat: I've had a facebook for quite some time and I dont use it or find it remotely interesting either. I dont like or have a myspace any more. I spell out all my txt messages in full with proper grammar.

Communication is a great tool, but too much, too short, too sensationalist, too "there", all the time, every day, is just damaging and stressful.

*this kind of communication, that meant to say.

THEN WHY ARE YOU POSTING IN THIS THREAD xp

Because I have an opinion on twitter, just as you do on "arse". Thank yew and good night.

Communication is a great tool, but too much, too short, too sensationalist, too "there", all the time, every day, is just damaging and stressful.

I do know what you mean. In the future there will be class in primary school called "Filtering". It'll be like Home Ec for your information intake.

otoh. All my work life and half my social life is online. I just spend a lot of damn time in this space. I demand amusement! MORE!

http://twitter.com/nannerpuss

ok finally worthwhile (this + shaq of course)

"Filtering" - yeah. that leads to a (probably clumsy) anaology I was thinking of earlier: our brains take in *everything* we see and hear but we dont process most of it conciously. If we did, we'd be overloaded. Thats what the sub/unconcious is for.

In this way, I see the massive overload of media, of the always-on contact via text message, email, blogs, news websites, tv, phonecalls... people are hammered hammered hammered all day long. "I heard that HOURS ago you're slow" you get told when you pass on a bit of news. There's only so much the poor brain can take in and still process in a cohesive fashion before we all start to just not take in anything sensible whatsoever.

OK this obviously goes way beyond twitter so this probably isn't the thread for it, but it's something I find interesting.

Trayce:

1. 'Arse' is fact, not opinion
2. Twitter occupies a place that is not for well-thought-out dissertations, and its existence does not foreshadow the death of the attention span
3. We get to choose what we take in, it's not like internet goblins are ramming web 2.1.1 down our throats against our will

Have you tried using Twitter, Trayce? Not evangelising, just curious.

I've read peoples feeds, I havent "used" it and it just isnt something I'd find useful or interesting. I get no use out of FB or anything similar to this, I dont run RSS feeds - constant information networking just isnt my bag. I'm not yr usual interwebs-user I guess. I work at an ISP - this shit's in my face all day, its like being a chef and not wanting too cook at home.

oh god that's a good point, I hadn't thought of that

Having said that, I'm being a little disingenious - obviously I read and post crud on ILX and Livejournal, but I do like to try and slow down and think, I suppose. Not that I'm saying twit is thoughtless...

Yeah. I like the fast pelting of tweets but I'm also about to buy 'A Suitable Boy' by Vikram Seth so

See now ,I used to keep up with the pace of IRC (2 busy channels and at least 5 priv chats going all at once). There is no fucking way I could do that now, I just cant keep up.

so has anyone debunked the Eno twitter??

My actual proper human friends have started turning up on this thing. All that media attention is going to ruin it for those of us who aren't bogans or grandparents.

I think we should write our own Eno twitter.

BEWARE OF CARS

EAT A BISCUIT

Adam, many of your tweets deal with dieting and weight loss; moreover, it appears you are having some success. What methods are you using?

Long story short so I don't derail: Seeing a nutritionist who's given me a very specific diet comprising low GI fruit (strawberries, blueberries, cherries, apples, etc.), snacking throughout the day, low-carb dinners and piles of vegetables. If you DM me (ha Twitter) an email address I'll go into loads more detail.

Have you noticed that ILX posts are getting shorter and shorter, is this a side effect of Twitterisation, or is it simply the way of the internet, and soundbite culture?

Also, I am beginning to notice Twitter having a deleterious effect on me. It's nice in some ways, that I've reconnected with old friends of mine who moved to LA, and I haven't seen in years, suddenly it's like being dropped back into the minutia of their lives in the way that we used to be when we lived across the road from one another.

But I really really need to disconnect from my celebrity twitter because they're showing off (well, don't know if they are, it felt last night like they were) in a way that just made me feel shit and crap about mine own life. And I suddenly started to feel very, very empty, that here was me being a voyeur on a person that would never actually talk to me - and instead of feeling excited - like, why was this person posting this stuff? To make his fans feel like they were "there in his place"? But it didn't feel like that, it felt like he is a celebrity, having this exciting shiny life, and I'm lying in bed with inky fingers and feeling very flat.

But I just can't disconnect myself from the drip feed, because I'm *obsessed* - it's the one part of obsessive compulsion I can never seem to shake.