Author Topic: Does anyone use Twitter at all? (Read 8927 times)

Stratos · « **on:** May 14, 2009, 01:54:59 AM »

I decided to hop on to claim my name now in case I saw a need in the future only to discover Stratos was already taken. So I picked another name.

I'm just wondering who on the boards uses it and what for? Do most of you like it or find it silly and unnecessary? Do you guys think it would be beneficial to the site for the staffers to have one, especially for quick updates at trade shows?

BeautifulShy · « **Reply #1 on:** May 14, 2009, 02:02:55 AM »

I think Flames of Chaos,Pale,Yoshidious,Megabite have a twitter account. I don't have one.

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2009, 02:35:59 AM »

I use it to listen to news stuff. Video game deals and such. I used to sweet, but I just couldn't stay with it, or care.

Mop it up · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:26:10 AM »

I don't use it, but just to be safe I created an account just now so that nobody else takes my username and impersonates me.

EasyCure · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:45:46 PM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on May 14, 2009, 03:26:10 AM

I don't use it, but just to be safe I created an account just now so that nobody else takes my username and impersonates me.

hmm....

vudu · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2009, 03:58:05 PM »

I recommend everyone do the same. Someone was already mean enough to take vudu.

Mop it up · « **Reply #6 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:10:23 PM »

That's sound advice. There are Mop_it_up impostors on sites like MySpace, FaceBook, YouTube, etc. so now I try to jump on anything which might become popular in the future.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #7 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:27:16 PM »

Twitter the 1 year fad. Like most fads I'll be missing this one!

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #8 on:** May 14, 2009, 05:57:12 PM »

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2009, 05:27:16 PM

Twitter the 1 year fad. Like most fads I'll be missing this one!

No it's useful. You can follow TVs shows, and while the TV show is on, you can tweet the show and they'll read your comments. I use it with cheapassgamer and they tweet me new deals. Very nice for that.

GoldenPhoenix · « **Reply #9 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:09:51 PM »

Quote from: DAaaMan64 on May 14, 2009, 05:57:12 PM

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2009, 05:27:16 PM
Twitter the 1 year fad. Like most fads I'll be missing this one!

No it's useful. You can follow TVs shows, and while the TV show is on, you can tweet the show and they'll read your comments. I use it with cheapassgamer and they tweet me new deals. Very nice for that.

Uh huh, talk to me after a year or so.

NinGurl69 *huggles · « **Reply #10 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:26:51 PM »

Twitter just adds more noise to the circus.

Mop it up · « **Reply #11 on:** May 14, 2009, 07:33:10 PM »

If I had a cellular phone then maybe I'd find it useful.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #12 on:** May 14, 2009, 08:20:04 PM »

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2009, 05:27:16 PM

Twitter the 1 year fad. Like most fads I'll be missing this one!

Someone with a Myspace link in their signature doesn't get to call Twitter a fad.

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #13 on:** May 14, 2009, 09:12:03 PM »

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2009, 07:09:51 PM

Quote from: DAaaMan64 on May 14, 2009, 05:57:12 PM
Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2009, 05:27:16 PM
Twitter the 1 year fad. Like most fads I'll be missing this one!

No it's useful. You can follow TVs shows, and while the TV show is on, you can tweet the show and they'll read your comments. I use it with cheapassgamer and they tweet me new deals. Very nice for that.

Uh huh, talk to me after a year or so.

Think what you want, but I'll bet your wrong

. I know I've been using it for over a year.

S-U-P-E-R · « **Reply #14 on:** May 15, 2009, 06:44:32 AM »

I have a twitter that I drop goofy messages into and follow high-profile nerds with. Not sure how I want to use it yet, but I imagine it'll be handy to clue people in when I'm traveling/doing something away from the internet

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Someone with a Myspace link in their signature doesn't get to call Twitter a fad.

Damn!

EasyCure · « **Reply #15 on:** May 15, 2009, 10:07:04 AM »

Quote from: insanolord on May 14, 2009, 08:20:04 PM

Quote from: GoldenPhoenix on May 14, 2009, 05:27:16 PM
Twitter the 1 year fad. Like most fads I'll be missing this one!

Someone with a Myspace link in their signature doesn't get to call Twitter a fad.

I'm mad it took so many posts for someone to retort with that.

Shame on all of you!

BlackNMild2k1 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 15, 2009, 03:22:53 PM »

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Does anyone use Twitter at all?

I have openly mocked it, does that count for anything? ~TwitterHouse~

Mop it up · « **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2009, 08:31:33 PM »

Why is a post on Twitter called a "tweet"? Shouldn't it be called a "twit"?

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #18 on:** May 15, 2009, 08:56:03 PM »

you sarcastic?

Calling someone a twit is calling them a negative.

Birds tweet, birds are twitter's mascots.

Mop it up · « **Reply #19 on:** May 15, 2009, 08:59:06 PM »

So why isn't the site called "Tweeter" then?

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #20 on:** May 16, 2009, 12:03:57 AM »

I'm too lazy to look, but my guess is the domain was already taken.

EDIT: Too lazy to look, not too lazy to go back and correct spelling.

Shift Key · « **Reply #21 on:** May 16, 2009, 02:31:45 AM »

Quote from: Mop_it_up on May 15, 2009, 08:59:06 PM

So why isn't the site called "Tweeter" then?

The dictionary is why:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/twitter - "To utter a succession of light chirping or tremulous sounds; chirrup."

Mop it up · « **Reply #22 on:** May 16, 2009, 03:53:42 AM »

That's really weird. Why is that word not "tweeter" instead? Looks like a tweeter is an electronic speaker designed to produce high-frequency sound, according to Wiktionary.

Why can't the English language be more consistent?

DAaaMan64 · « **Reply #23 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:01:05 AM »

Because it was invented by humans.

NWR_insanolord · « **Reply #24 on:** May 16, 2009, 05:34:33 AM »

I absolutely love the English language and all of its eccentricities. If being an English major involved studying the mechanics and vocabulary as opposed to reading a bunch of stuff I'd hate I'd know what my major was going to be in the fall.

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Author Topic: Does anyone use Twitter at all? (Read 8927 times)