Comments on: Flushing Twitter

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:53:21 +0000

Oh well, guess I’m done with Twitter now too. On to Facebook.

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:34:06 +0000

Twitter does let me do fun things like this. :)

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:29:56 +0000

Interestingly it occurs to me that what I was doing back in those halcyon days was not so different from what we’re doing now. I ran Echomail and Groupmail lists for political discussions, mainly. Well, one big difference. I used to be arch conservative/libertarian.

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Wed, 20 May 2009 18:24:04 +0000

Donna, I respect you like your set ways of doing things, and it’s natural for all of us. I don’t go back quite so far as you but I was on Fidonet originally. Certainly this whole new fangled web thing wasn’t around when I was first using the Internet. I remember the first time I saw the web — via text browser — it blew me away and I knew it would change everything.

Twitter, maybe not so much. :)

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:08:06 +0000

I could be even more cruel and cite Sturgeon’s law, of course, which holds that 90% of everything is crap…

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:06:19 +0000

Mahakal, I’m not picking on Twitter. It just continually provides the most idiotic examples of fresh idiocies. I am amused by them more than anything else, and use it as a way to justify my own dislike of such things and refusal to use the web 2.0 stuff. You must understand how old school I am — I go back to Arpanet days, for goodness sakes. We totally resent everyone else using “our” Internet, which we made purely for good and not stupid idiotic uses, as proven by any of the old Usenet logs. ;^)

Joe, the Pareto principle most certainly does apply to pretty much everything, really.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:21:47 +0000

But Donna, 80% of everything is not crap – that’s only true in the world of electronic ‘information’. Twitter is a form of entertainment. Blogs mostly are too. It’s because they are easy, fast, and cheap. And therefore do not require planning, cooperation, expense, and prior review and approval by collaborators or superiors.

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Tue, 19 May 2009 18:02:57 +0000

Totally agreed, but why pick on Twitter specifically? It’s popular so it gets a lot of everything. It has a lot of technical issues though and it deserves a good degree of criticism for some of its problems, but that said I don’t think it’s going away soon.

By: Donna

Donna — Tue, 19 May 2009 17:30:07 +0000

Indeed, Mahakal — it has a ton of practical uses. As does facebook. But 80%, as of everything, is crap. Now literally…

By: Mahakal

Mahakal — Tue, 19 May 2009 16:06:55 +0000

Really, though…Twitter has become my microblogging platform instead of using WordPress. It isn’t everything to everyone, and it is frequently put to silly use. But so are blogs… :)