Comments on: The top eleven reasons Twitter sucks.

By: Andre Kibbe

Andre Kibbe — Sat, 24 May 2008 23:19:51 +0000

Huh? People use Twitter? What’s their secret? I’m “on” Twitter, but Twitter’s never on — network outages and all.

I’m with Mrs. Michah’s loyal opposition. In addition to selectively having your ear to the ground, there are plenty of interest bots and mashups worth investigating: food logs, expense logs, answer forums, and so on.

My favorite use of Twitter is the track command, which returns tweets containing a specified term. I send “track samsung instinct” yesterday and immediately got text messages with links to the product’s release date — no checking forums, no subscribing to RSS. Then I cancelled the updates with untrack. It’s a great way to stay on top of things if you’re as lazy as I am.

By: Mrs. Micah

Mrs. Micah — Sat, 24 May 2008 01:24:38 +0000

I work from home half the time so I like to feel connected. Enter Twitter, where I can either chat or be a voyeur.

And sometimes I want to share random things without making a full post of it and possibly annoying a few hundred people who’d find their readers a lot fuller. Twitter solves that problem. If people want to follow me on both, they can, if not then nobody has to listen to my random crap. If they want to, that’s their affair.

But don’t worry about it…nobody’s going to make you use twitter. Or read their tweets. I’m sure nobody cares that you’re not tweeting either. Take a few deep breaths and just get over it.

By: Vered

Vered — Sat, 24 May 2008 00:12:36 +0000

I am one of the twits with a blog who use twitter. I can’t come up with a good reason except that everyone does it, which doesn’t make me sound too intelligent, I’m afraid.

By: Preposterous Ponderings

Preposterous Ponderings — Tue, 20 May 2008 14:08:36 +0000

Guess what,I’m making a grilled cheese sandwich right now.

By: CruiserMel

CruiserMel — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:38:17 +0000

Okay, apparently I have been living under a rock. Hell, I only recently succumbed to the myspace thingy and that’s taxing enough. I’ll take your word for it that Twitter is f’d up. Can we throw in facebook, too? And while I’m at it - how about that damned Classmates.com? If I wanted to be found and talk with those people, don’t you think I’d have their phone number?

Rant over. Nice entry, JS.

p.s. thanks for the email - your good thoughts are working.

By: tequila mockingbird

tequila mockingbird — Wed, 14 May 2008 18:30:17 +0000

maybe if you actually had friends, youd like twitter. but face it, no one likes you.

just kidding. but maybe id loev you more if you visited my blog every once in awhile. yes, i know i’m bitching and moaning, but fuck you. no blogger is an island.

By: Geoserv

Geoserv — Tue, 13 May 2008 17:22:34 +0000

STUMBLED!

I must admit, Twitter has always been a mystery to me. What the hell is it for? What is its actual purpose?

Definitely agree 100%.

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By: Hungry Mother

Hungry Mother — Tue, 13 May 2008 15:24:12 +0000

I don’t even text or IM. Email is immediate enough for me. I like to keep my distance from immediacy and actually live a life.

By: Just Sayin...

Just Sayin... — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:48:37 +0000

Kerstin… I’m with you. Hey maybe we should have sex to show our solidarity. You know… If we sleep together it will cement our resolve to never use Twitter, or something like that.

Anyway… Yeah… Let me know.

By: Just Sayin...

Just Sayin... — Fri, 09 May 2008 20:46:30 +0000

Rich… I have to admit that was a pretty compelling reason to use Twitter, and in that instance and that instance only I’ll say that maybe it didn’t suck. Not so much because Twitter itself doesn’t suck mind you… More so because publicly humiliating someone via any medium RULES!