UKRM Twitterers

Right, in addition to facebook UKRMers can now follow my random
wibblings on Twitter.

User "nickelf" - nice to see several other UKRM Twitterers already
there.

 

Is there a compelling reason why you don't get a..

ah, yes, as you were

BTW your sig's fucked.

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Third largest social networking service in the known universe, six
million users, 55 million monthly visitors.

If you ever visit any blogging sites then Twitter is similar, but it's
micro-blogging.

 

Never a truer word.

Look up Dave Levy on Twitter, work out what he does for us and how much he
is paid.

The man is pissing people off now.

 

6 million people paid too much with too much time on their hands. 55
million wankers watching.

Biggest waste of time .... ever.

blogging, the biggest waste of time before twitter was concieved.

http://twatter.org/

 

Life; don't talk to me about life.

 

Loathe it or ignore it; you can't like it.

 

Thankfully, I haven't got a fucking clue what twitter is.


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I fucking love that term "social networking". Is that some modern version of
"talking shit with your mates"?

Why would anyone "visit" a blogging site?


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Why? Facebook is enough drivel for a lifetime let alone micro-drivel.

I wonder what the average age is? I'd be surprised if it was a day
over 14.

 

Pot Noodles don't contain MSG.

 

Because people who monitor Facebook aren't interested in
micro-blogging.

It depends if you like to lust after teenagers or not. I'm currently
following the tweets of:

Wil Weaton (played Wesley Crusher in Star Trek TNG)
LeVar Burton (Geordi in Star Trek TNG)
Al Gore
10 Downing Street
BBC Click
Twitter
Dan (A 30 year old friend)
prawn of this parish
Alan Davies
Stephen Fry
Google
Cricinfo
Richard, a 30 year old friend of mine
Damian, a 40 year old friend of mine
Nick, of this parish
David, a 40 year old friend

There you go. I don't think I've got anyone under 30. If you like
watching children then that's your preference, it's not something that
interests me.

 

How do you know most of them aren't children pretending to be really
old, grooming you to get a mention in your will?

 

Because I know a large number of them IRL, and the others are quite
public figures.

 

Fair point, lets call it micro drivel for the time being.

Well I was basing my assertion on 14 days of FB, which, at 45, I
seemed to be double (at least the mental age) of everybody on it. But
looking at that list I cant think 'Why?'.

Richard, Damian, Nick, Prawn, Dan and David could just send you an
email. The rest I have no clue, wtf would you care about Al Gores or
Will Weatons daily life in anything other than the Sun?

It's a mystery to me, but I subscribe to UKRM, so who am I to talk?

 

It's not drivel if you're interested in it, it's a blog.

The only people you have access to on Facebook are those people which
YOU have accepted as Friends, and they have to do the same. Therefore
if you found that your Friends were all 14 year olds then that's
purely because YOU have added and/or accepted them as friends.

If it's something important they can send me an email, text message,
phone me, come and see me, if it's just a bit of twitter then they
just tweet "Thank goodness today is over" and I can reply saying "I
agree entirely" or whatever. They're not telling ME they had a bad
day, they're just speaking the words out loud where other people who
listen to them can hear it.

For example, I know that a friend of mine is going to his GP next week
for something, another thinks his PC is too slow and another has just
seen his first Kindle - an american bloke on the train had one and
gave him a demo. It's not formal email, it's just twitter. Which is
why it's called Twitter.

I also know that Alan Davies of QI fame wrote 1500 words of his
upcoming book today, he got a bill for nearly £2,400 to have his
plumbing fixed which only cost £2,000 to install ten years ago and
that he had grilled haddock for tea.

I also know that Wil Wheaton just got back from the dentist and has no
cavities and he wishes his shower would pick a temperature and stick
to it until he turns the water off.

Ahh, Levar Burton hasn't smoked for 30 whole days.

Oh, and the QI Elves want to know if this is the world's most

If you didn't care about Wil Weaton's daily life then you wouldn't hit
the "Follow" button on Twitter to follow them, would you? It's like
if you didn't want to read what a load of 14 year olds do on Facebook
then you wouldn't request to be or accept friend requests from them,
but it looks like what you did when you were on facebook...

 

No, I have, as does everyone on FB, a *long* list of people they
exchanged a few words with initially, then don't bother, because,
let's face it, for the remainder I actually know/meet, the phone/email
is the preferred way.

<taps fingers> Ok, for the sake of the experiment, I'm going to give
it a shot. I shall prostrate myself before and humbly beg forgiveness
if it turns out I'm a twiter, but I don't think so. Watch this space....

 

BGN wrote:
[Twitter]

Ah, so it's like a pseud's Hello! magazine but in real-time.

 

Post corrected

Seriously, how can you throw bile at a social networking/blog site,
when you have devoted days/weeks of your life spouting on here

Paul.

 

Kunta!

Paul.