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I'm on Twitter as icecreamjonsey, as soon as I can think of something interesting to say, I'll hit it up. Please feel free to link to your Twitter addresses here so I can follow YOU.

I refuse to 'twitter' or to Facebook or myspace. The internet is for forums, porn, and web sex, not some wierd social networking bullshit. That's for those young whipper snappers who grew up with this shit already here.

weird social networking bullshit.

What does that say about BBS's like this?


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Twitter is the one I'm holding out on. I don't Twitter and I don't follow anyone else's. I just can't imagine being that interested in anyone else, or having anyone else being that interested in me.

Well, I'm up to 11 followers, none of which came from here, so you're all true to your word.

Let me recommend the Twitter feed of roody_yogurt! He has been especially entertaining and jocular lately.

How do you follow somebody's Twitters -- through the site, through e-mail, or through your phone?

no I won't twitter. I guess if I could set up a twitter to monitor craigslist posts, that would be a good idea.

Flack wrote:How do you follow somebody's Twitters -- through the site, through e-mail, or through your phone?

I will confess that the reason I got into it was because of my new phone.

The thing has a number of icons on it, so I can just press 'em and get CONTENT. So I press "TwitterFon," and see the stuff that's been posted last. I do tend to type my own in through twitter.com, because fighting against the 140 character barrier is easier on a PC.

It would DEFINITELY suck if I did this any other way. If I were getting the messages sent like text messages, that would irritate the hell out of me. If I had to go to a website to read them each time, it would irritate me. But accessing Twitter when I'm standing in a line or something is cool, and it helps that I managed to follow a few funny people. (The big cliche is that people use Twitter to say when they are going to the can or something.)

As a way to say something funny or interesting in a BITE-SIZE CHUNK, I think it's a success.

Casual Observer wrote:no I won't twitter. I guess if I could set up a twitter to monitor craigslist posts, that would be a good idea.

Yeah, Twitter monitoring Casual Encounters for an up-to-the-minute whore search would be great.

Bruce

So i'm creating a twitter account purely for curosity reasons and on the second page they ask me for my email account password. Are they crazy? Who is the idiot who gives these jokers full access to their email account?

I love that the third page of registration tries really hard to make me "follow" this preselected group of twitts. Isn't twitter ashamed to make us unselect the entire list? I would throw up if I had to read twitters from most of these people:

twitter wrote:Zappos.com CEO -Tony
Al Gore
CMEGroup
Dr. Drew Board Certified, MD
Britney Spears Yes! This is the real Britney Spears! We've got updates from her team, her website and yes, even Britney herself!
John McCain
Demi Moore
Coldplay
NBA
soleil moon frye
Felicia Day Actress, Filmmaker, Gamer, Misanthrope

wow, is it really this s l o w? I had to check if it was my internet connection. . . nope, salesforce.com is working fast. Their search is glacial. Also, every time I click on search for people it first shows me the tab asking for my email account password. Fuck them. That's it I'm done.

OK, ICJ I'm following you & roody now.

CO, it is sometimes slow, and sometimes prone to downright crashing - they apparently haven't figured out how to make money off it yet and thus don't have the servers to support its huge popularity. I still use it on and off, but usually pretty inanely.

You shouldn't need to re-log-in to search for people, though - you might have been on during a time of one of the typical buggy slow-downs.

Ha, I was like, whoa, a name I don't recognize is following me (and it doesn't even look like some kind of spam account)! Did some googling, saw the page with the Adventure Creation Kit link, and figured it out.

Anyhow, I'm not sure how much use I'll get out of Twitter myself (and yeah, the site does seem pretty strained sometimes), but I thought I'd give it a spin just to get back in the habit of writing thoughts of any kind down and to have another distraction at work.

I can't say my feed will be that entertaining. No one will ever accuse ICJ of not being a nice guy willing to throw compliments around to his friends.

In any case, your music label stuff looks interesting. I'll definitely check it out.

co wrote:So i'm creating a twitter account purely for curosity reasons and on the second page they ask me for my email account password. Are they crazy? Who is the idiot who gives these jokers full access to their email account?

I didn't come anywhere close to a screen like that when I signed up, but honestly, I'd be fucking glad to give my email address and password to somebody at this point. Let them deal with all the shit I gotta put up with, let them deal with being Robb Sherwin for a few hours. I would imagine I'll get my account restored and a bottle of sympathy wine sent to the house (the address of which they'd scrape from my mail THIS IS NOT FAR-FETCHED)

Ice Cream Jonsey wrote:I didn't come anywhere close to a screen like that when I signed up, but honestly, I'd be fucking glad to give my email address and password to somebody at this point.

they were asking me to let them check for contacts on other networks, and they kept asking everytime I wanted to search for people. I once let Linkedin import my contacts from gmail and now I've had scammers sending personalized requests to my contact list pretending to be me stuck in africa and needing help. I use my email for a number of e-bills so i've got account numbers and shit in there. I'm really not inspired about the security of a laggy site with too many users and not enough money coming in.

Thanks, Roody, I hope you like the music! Yeah, I likewise can't guarantee any substance/entertainment value of my Twitter feed, sometimes it's nothing but replies to other people's twitters, but I keep going back to it. ICJ, I'm 'joshlawrence' there if you're wondering who the hell that is following you.

Haha.

I clicked on a thread about Twitter on another Internet forum, just now. Someone linked to "Dwight from The Office" and I wasn't sure if the poster meant the character or the actor.

The poster meant the actor.

Literally the third tweet down at the moment reads:

Do you guys know @sockington ? It's a cat. A fu**ing cat that tweets. Bullsh**. Sockington, I've got a freezer with your name on it.

Sockington is, of course, the cat that Twitters, owned by Jason Scott, yes, that Jason Scott.

CO wrote:I love that the third page of registration tries really hard to make me "follow" this preselected group of twitts. Isn't twitter ashamed to make us unselect the entire list? I would throw up if I had to read twitters from most of these people:

twitter wrote:Zappos.com CEO -Tony
Al Gore
CMEGroup
Dr. Drew Board Certified, MD
Britney Spears Yes! This is the real Britney Spears! We've got updates from her team, her website and yes, even Britney herself!
John McCain
Demi Moore
Coldplay
NBA
soleil moon frye
Felicia Day Actress, Filmmaker, Gamer, Misanthrope

When I signed up, it suggested that I subscribe to Trent Reznor and Shaquille O'Neal.

Ok, Twitter has officially jumped the shark and hopefully will fade away now.

cnn news update wrote:Twitter race between Ashton Kutcher and CNN narrows
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/16/asht ... pstoryview

Ok, I'd help ashton reach a million twit followers only if it made him finally drop all the way into the acid tank like in Untraceable: