Twitter is just not cool

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Twitter is just not cool

A 15-year-old Briton has set the financial world abuzz with a research note penned for a major US bank in which he reveals teenagers' media habits - including that Twitter is just not cool.
 
Marketing must be feeding them a bunch of crap then... There's nothing new here!

- Teenages consume large amounts of media: games, movies and music.
No, really?

- Teenages don't use Twitter.
Yes, they prefer something that gets them noticed. Twitter doesn't force things down your throat.

- Texting Twitter messages uses up mobile phone credit.
No, only if you use the SMS option. Get a twitter client noob ;)

- Teenagers don't want stuff for free/cheap.
Nope, nothing new there either. Kids have time, not money.
 
looked at twitter once and that was it, never again.
 
Twitter is a different angle on an RSS feed.
If you can twitter sources that actually interest you, then it is useful.
I did not found a useful source so I don't use it.
 
It took me all of 5 minutes to realise that Twitter is pointless. And useless.

IMO, only the unwise have any use for either of those traits.
 
Twitter = mini-RSS for me.

I love it, using the TwitterFox plugin for Firefox and subscribed to News24, Mybroadband and a few WoW sites.

Pops up every 5 mins with mini updates, not as intense as using a full blown RSS reader such as Brief, which I also use.

Following celebrities on it, well, that I find pretty pointless :P
 
Ooh, I can do this!

Ooh, ooh!

35 year old men don't play golf. I mean, I'm 35 and I know a few 35 year olds, and none of us play golf.

Shower gratitude on me for my unique insight. Better sell all your shares in the golf industry.




Disclaimer: I take no credit for the above comment. I shamelessly ripped it from: http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1300701&cid=28675741
 
tried to check what Twitter was about then register. the site was messed up and I could not register so i decided not to pursue it.
 
it looks like a site built for 11-year old girls...it's so gay
 
davemc said:
Twitter is a different angle on an RSS feed.
If you can twitter sources that actually interest you, then it is useful.
I did not found a useful source so I don't use it.
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I use it to get notified when there's news from Smoothwall and the such.

Tried to follow The Register once on Twitter - big mistake, got bombarded by tweets :D

Cloud said:
Twitter = mini-RSS for me.

I love it, using the TwitterFox plugin for Firefox and subscribed to News24, Mybroadband and a few WoW sites.

Pops up every 5 mins with mini updates, not as intense as using a full blown RSS reader such as Brief, which I also use.

Following celebrities on it, well, that I find pretty pointless :P
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Using Twitterfox as well.

How do you subscribe to Mybroadband RSS with Twitter? :confused:

Celebrities, no - them I don't follow. Who want to hear what Paris Hilton did last night? Or Britney Spears? naaaaaah.... that might be of interest to a teen... or their fans.
 
RT @AmaZulu "It took me all of 5 minutes to realise that Twitter is pointless. And useless. IMO, only the unwise have any use for either of those traits." <-- People who make snap judgements usually end up looking very #silly.

I'll say this about twitter. As a means of getting information, twitter is on a par with Google. Google has old but reliable articles, twitter provides unedited but realtime information. Now they simply need to combine the 2.

When North Korea launches a missile at the US, guaranteed you'll hear it first on twitter.
 
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Twitter is for twits. Seriously, how do they expect me to life and express myself in 140 characters?!

If you want to do social network then facebook is the only real option. At least they offer photos (albeit 604x604 pixels max) with tagging.

Personally I view the twitter crowd in the same light as the crowd that strokes and pokes their phones. They think they are hip, cool and all that but meanwhile they are twits...
 
Rouxenator said:
Twitter is for twits. Seriously, how do they expect me to life and express myself in 140 characters?!

If you want to do social network then facebook is the only real option. At least they offer photos (albeit 604x604 pixels max) with tagging.

Personally I view the twitter crowd in the same light as the crowd that strokes and pokes their phones. They think they are hip, cool and all that but meanwhile they are twits...
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twitter is not there for you to express yourself. twitter is a tool for disseminating information across the globe as fast as possible. Honestly, as soon as someone says the word "facebook" and "twitter" in the same sentence, I immediately know they've missed the point.
 
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