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Just signed up to Twitter and I'm kinda wondering why really. So, who's interesting to follow/stalk?
me
and Danny Baker.
I am very tedious. Avoid me at all costs. I do.
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Talking of Twitter (I'm stupidly bored today), there was a report about the local police and the calls they have to answer on TV yesterday. Now some nice lady had phone the police (yes, phoned the police) to report being harassed on Twitter.
I don't think any further typing is necessary.
@Aiannucci
@DaveGorman
@ukbikeskills -mainly for coffee related news 😉
a few more for you.
Boringly predictable picture posted by boringly predictable stationary salesman to demonstrate just how boringly predictable he is. 🙄
There's a right tosser for you: @deadlydarcy.
Generally, comedians are good...Dara O'Briain, Alan Davies, Jimmy Carr, etc. I use it to contact my local MP and though I'm no fan of hers, she always replies. Some good political figures to follow too: your MP, Alastair Campbell. And plenty of cyclists tweet: Cav, Bradley, Thor etc.
@daysnways
I need the dudes . . . .
@Humblebrag
Ive bought one bike frame and two holidays via twitter, the normal peeps can be interesting but i suggest @markcavendish for straight talking views 🙂
@ffflow
@shitmydadsays
A lot of the TdF riders are funny! Cav, his girlfriend @PetaTodd,
Mark Renshaw they are all on there.
jimmy Carr is funny.
Don't follow @miketually, especially now the summer's nearly here and he'll just be banging on about not being in work.
Qui est @lhommedunord ❓
my bin ninja skillz are weak, what's your @ on there Rickos?
dom jolly uses c**T alot!!!! and loves a good troll he be perfect for here!
Houns - I ain't tellin' you. Facestalk is for buddies, ****ter is for stalking the glitterati.
Thank for the suggestions. I'd already found Cav, but I'll look out for some of the others. Particularly like the idea of sh1tmydadsays. 😀
Facestalk is old hat though, the cool kidz (and freedom fighters) use twitter
Nah Google+ is where the cool kidz are
Oh and Rickos :finger:
I likes it..
Met some great people on it..
It's good way to get some unguarded comments from people.
For cycling I follow Cav and Brad Wiggins.
I also follow a few journalists. It's good way of finding out breaking news and gossip. Giles Coren (@gilescoren) is entertaining.
And then some comedians like Richard Herring (@herring1967)
Not a twitter user myself - but a lot of the thebigsam's tweets get put up on football forums and they're mortal funny (IMHO, defo would not be to everyone's taste). Think he had to change his name to notthebigsam or some variation like that.
I follow a few authors like William Gibson and Cory Doctorow, a bunch of writers from Tunisia, Yemen, Japan and various 'interesting' parts of the world, and some musicians.
And I hardly ever post anything, so I'm not going to bother putting my username here, 'cos it would be pointless.
Am I the only one that doesn't really get it?
@Citizenfishy for once a week cycling book writing blog malarky
@dick_barton - not got much of value but every now and again (literally now and again!), I come out with a gem...think last one was about 3 months ago so I'm surely due one shortly...
Don't follow the rich and famous - figure as I don't follow them on tv, no point wasting my time with them there...follow other bikers/folk I know and other diabetics...my postings are completely random in lot of cases...if you do follow me, standby to be underwhelmed!
All the cool kids have moved on to the 'alternative' social network
I've got rid of most of the people I was following as ended up getting swamped so now just follow cyclists. I use tweetymail which sends tweets in batches to my email a/c and find that works best for me.
Twitter is for those middle of the night, can't get to sleep so need to read some random sh*te moments...
@jojo1 #tweetinglesscosworkingmore
Am I the only one that doesn't really get it?
No. I don't get ****ter either.
You may as well just shout inane things into the street from your front door. Just as interesting, and just as many people give a 5h1t.
I wasn't sure about it before I signed up but definitely converted now.
You only follow the people or groups you are interested in so should only receive tweets you want to see. Can be very useful for events, people like NoFuss are pretty good at offering info you wouldn't normally get via Twitter.
Then there's the famous folks, people like Cav post up some great stuff that they probably shouldn't. He's pretty new to it and was pretty much told to by HTC I think, definitely a few tweets sent in the heat of the moment which gives thoughts you wouldn't hear in the normal interviews when he's calmed down.
If you follow people you are interested in I think most people would enjoy it.
Am I the only one that doesn't really get it?
What would you like to know?
No. I don't get ****ter either.
Congratulations, you share the same sense of humour as David Cameron. My condolences.
You may as well just shout inane things into the street from your front door.
Interesting that your opinion suggests you have no idea what twitter is. It's quite similar to saying mobile phones are crap because you read once that someone used one to say something stupid.
What if someone was shouting insightful, funny or pertinent information from their front door? Would it be OK then?
Like everything in life, if you seek shite you'll find it, but it's your choice.
I'd suggest that the people who intentionally read threads about things they don't get and then take time out of their lives to respond for no other reason than to criticise those who do should take a good long look at themselves.
I've had a coffee and now I can feel the blind eel wriggle... 8)
I'll update shortly.
Congratulations, you share the same sense of humour as David Cameron. My condolences.
What's a David Cameron ?
Interesting that your opinion suggests you have no idea what twitter is
possibly
what [i]is[/i] it for then?
does it have an actual purpose or value?
does it have an actual purpose or value?
Does it have to?
i'm hoping that someone can highlight why i should use it, other than "ooh, ooh, look what a moderately famous person just typed into the interwebs"
if it's all just inane gossip, I get enough of that from real people I live and work with 🙂
promotion... for example i found out a well known 'alternative music' reviewer was listening to our album through twitter... i got in contact via twitter and a month later he was at a show on our tour, 2 months later we get an amazing review in metal hammer magazine, full page photo of me... even though we weren't the headlining band of that show.
music industry uses it in a big way.
You may as well just shout inane things into the street from your front door.
If you tweet inane things, no one will want to follow you. Perhaps you should try being interesting, helpful or amusing?
Via Twitter I've met some great people; got a loan of a sweet bike for a couple of races; got interviewed by the World Service, local and Irish National Radio; featured in several national newspapers; rediscovered riding in Swaledale; kept up-to-date on current affairs; been entertained and amused.
i'm hoping that someone can highlight why i should use it,
I think the majority of users on this thread are of a similar opinion - it's fun, it's a way of hearing opinions of people in whom one is interested (sportspeople, politicians, comedians etc) before their quotes might be twisted by a newspaper or a PR company. Not everything on there is gossip.
As I said earlier, my MP is a heavy user of twitter and to be fair to her, even though I'm not a fan, she has responded to every single question or comment I've made to her via twitter. Much easier than writing a letter about trivial things.
Earlier this year, I was having enormous trouble getting around £650 out of BMW finance that they owed me after a lease purchase agreement ended. No amount of phone calls or emails (over a period of around 4 months) did it. So I launched my own little Facebook/Twitter campaign to get it back. The money was in my account within ten days.
You're not forced to use it you know...you can just make inane comments from a position of ignorance if you want. I'm not sure you'd get that much out of it anyway TBH.
i'm hoping that someone can highlight why i should use it,
Specifically for me, I originally signed up because an actor was tweeting progress updates about an upcoming TV show I was interested in. News was invariably faster than any other medium, by a long way.
Since then, I've now got a number of close friends on there. I find that it's a nice way of keeping up to date on what people are up to, and whilst it's probably true to say that a lot of it is just idle chatter, where friends are concerned I don't think that's inherently a bad thing. Anything interesting that crops up, it's a good conversation starter next time I see them.
Friends aside, some accounts simply provide interesting information. Depending on your interests, there's Twitter feeds from news services, politicians, comedians, free offers, magazines, etc etc. Looking at a single page of my feed right now, I can see a stupid joke from Viz, an offer of a free sample of tea bags, a link to an interview with someone involved in the NotW phone hacking scandal, details of the official Facebook page for an event I'm attending next year, a piece of useful consumer rights information from Martin Lewis, and a random quote from Rupert Giles.
As for outbound, it's incredibly easy for me to share what's going on in my life. When out and about, I can take a photograph on my phone, press the 'share' button, and it automagially uploads the picture to a hosting service and publishes the link on Twitter. Why would I want to do that? Ever sent someone a postcard?
I also use it as a dumping ground for random thoughts. Jokes that pop into my head for instance, or whatever else I have to say. I've complained about companies before, only to get a reply from that company's Twitter account offering customer support. Last week, I moaned about something the Kaiser Chiefs had said on stage at Glastonbury, and got a reply from their bass player explaining that I'd misunderstood them ..oO 😳
To manage all this, you can set up groups and filter people accordingly. I've got mine broken down into people I actually know, with everything else (news feeds, authors, etc) in a different column. That way I can quickly scan the "celebs" column or ignore it completely, but still keep in touch with what my friends are doing without missing anything.
And ok, sure, you could still be thinking "well, why would I want to do that?" That's fine, only you can answer that question. You could similarly argue that there's no 'point' to discussing minutiae with friends face to face, and whilst you'd be right I quite like hearing their views on (say) the last film they watched. You could ask why you'd want to send text messages when you can just press a little green button and talk to someone, but plenty of people do, every day. And of course, plenty don't. That's fine too.
@UKCougar.
*follows cougar*
Specifically for me, I originally signed up because an actor was tweeting progress updates about an upcoming TV show I was interested in. News was invariably faster than any other medium, by a long way.Since then, I've now got a number of close friends on there. I find that it's a nice way of keeping up to date on what people are up to, and whilst it's probably true to say that a lot of it is just idle chatter, where friends are concerned I don't think that's inherently a bad thing. Anything interesting that crops up, it's a good conversation starter next time I see them.
Friends aside, some accounts simply provide interesting information. Depending on your interests, there's Twitter feeds from news services, politicians, comedians, free offers, magazines, etc etc. Looking at a single page of my feed right now, I can see a stupid joke from Viz, an offer of a free sample of tea bags, a link to an interview with someone involved in the NotW phone hacking scandal, details of the official Facebook page for an event I'm attending next year, a piece of useful consumer rights information from Martin Lewis, and a random quote from Rupert Giles.
As for outbound, it's incredibly easy for me to share what's going on in my life. When out and about, I can take a photograph on my phone, press the 'share' button, and it automagially uploads the picture to a hosting service and publishes the link on Twitter. Why would I want to do that? Ever sent someone a postcard?
I also use it as a dumping ground for random thoughts. Jokes that pop into my head for instance, or whatever else I have to say. I've complained about companies before, only to get a reply from that company's Twitter account offering customer support. Last week, I moaned about something the Kaiser Chiefs had said on stage at Glastonbury, and got a reply from their bass player explaining that I'd misunderstood them ..oO
To manage all this, you can set up groups and filter people accordingly. I've got mine broken down into people I actually know, with everything else (news feeds, authors, etc) in a different column. That way I can quickly scan the "celebs" column or ignore it completely, but still keep in touch with what my friends are doing without missing anything.
And ok, sure, you could still be thinking "well, why would I want to do that?" That's fine, only you can answer that question. You could similarly argue that there's no 'point' to discussing minutiae with friends face to face, and whilst you'd be right I quite like hearing their views on (say) the last film they watched. You could ask why you'd want to send text messages when you can just press a little green button and talk to someone, but plenty of people do, every day. And of course, plenty don't. That's fine too.
@UKCougar.
Nailed it.
Qui est @lhommedunord
😀
On top of the reasons already given so eloquently by Cougar, Twitter also succeeds by not ballsing it up by trying to be too clever (unlike Facebook). It's a very lightweight service that has stuck very well to what made it big in the first place.
I signed up to follow Rob Lee on one of his endurance rides. Since then, I've found just the same as a lot of people: you get interesting direct opinion, competitions that appear nowhere else, and even news that doesn't make mainstream media.
The news thing is particularly interesting and democratic. On the one hand, there's Ryan Giggs. On the other, there's on-the-spot commentary about incidents like shootings in London that don't even make the local news any more. Or protests. Or good news stories. The people are setting the agenda and you can use Twitter to see what's happening with your own filtering method.
I found out about a spate of minor vandalism in my street, it was posted by my local police twitter feed. I cant think where else i would have got that info unless i was scpeifically looking for it.
Currently taking part in some local CX races, found out about them on Twitter through someone i follow, dont go to any of the sites those races are normally advertised.
Accurate up to date weather forcast for the ride home from work? follow people who work in the same area as you and you quickly find out what weather is due your way very soon :0)
Yes its full of rubbish, no im not interested in innane celeb gossip, but follow the right people and you get a news and information service tailored to your hobbies, interest and location.
Yeah.
If you're thinking "I followed everyone I've ever heard of and now my Twitter stream is full of inane bollocks" then you've only got yourself to blame. It helps to be a bit discerning, I periodically go through my list and purge people who have turned out to be less interesting (or more prolific) than I'd hoped.
Congratulations, you share the same sense of humour as David Cameron. My condolences.
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*snort*
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i thought it was pants at first but im following geriant thomas a fellow sheepshagger as he's doing Le Tour and its quite good fun.
i dont post myself as i think that is quite shite as my life is boring, its a bit like facebook updates...
"just took the dog for a walk and im haivng fish and chips for tea" bollox
its a bit like facebook updates
What's a facebook ?
Rather than start a new thread, I thought I would unashamadly beg for follows here having read earlier in the thread who to follow. @SteveCold, nothing overly interested, mostly dull, occasionally not, ignore me at your leisure.
nothing overly interested, mostly dull
****ter in a nutshell 😈
****ter in a nutshell
Whereas that was the sort of insightful, provocative comment I like to think the internet was invented for.
The great advantage of twitter is that I don't have to listen to that sort of inane, mindless drivel and can just read and follow interesting thoughts of apparently interesting people.
Or, to put it another way: you are pointless.
kisses x