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Who Tweets? Who use the Twitter app? Who read tweets as SMS?

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  • KlausK Offline
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    Klaus
    wrote on last edited by Klaus
    #2

    The point of the character limit today is to force people to compress their messages. Sometimes it is annoying, but there is also something valuable in the idea that you must reduce your message to its essence to post it.

    I personally do send tweets occasionally, but not more than once or twice per month.

    I'd never use the Twitter app, though. Too intrusive. The web interface is completely fine.

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      #3

      I follow a lot of people on twitter but don’t tweet at all. (My FB presence is also limited but I do occasionally post and I’ll like things that catch my eye. )

      Lots of flame wars on twitter. But I usually don’t read reactions. Just the original tweet of the one I’m following.

      I follow mostly: journalists, health professionals, some military aviation and naval stuff. Very little “personal” following. I don’t have any desire tho peek into the boring lives of anyone.

      I use the twitter app on phone and iPad.

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      • George KG Offline
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        George K
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        #4

        What Bach said, but I use the web interface. I may have sent out one tweet.

        "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

        The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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          #5

          The one and only time I ventured into Twitter was a couple of months ago. I got the notion to add my voice to the comments following one of Trump's crackbrained rants. (Don't ask, I was bored.) It was a mess and I soon gave up. That's the only time I've ever fooled with it.

          Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace. – Mike Ditka

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          • CopperC Offline
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            #6

            I have done all 4

            But not for several years

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            • JollyJ Offline
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              #7

              Don't tweet. Rarely read any tweets, unless they are here or contained in an opinion column.

              Tweet is a vapid wasteland of intellectual stupidity with an occasional oasis of original thought and brilliance. It ain't worth wading through the sand to get to the water.

              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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              • JollyJ Jolly

                Don't tweet. Rarely read any tweets, unless they are here or contained in an opinion column.

                Tweet is a vapid wasteland of intellectual stupidity with an occasional oasis of original thought and brilliance. It ain't worth wading through the sand to get to the water.

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                @Jolly said in Who Tweets? Who use the Twitter app? Who read tweets as SMS?:

                Don't tweet. Rarely read any tweets, unless they are here or contained in an opinion column.

                Tweet is a vapid wasteland of intellectual stupidity with an occasional oasis of original thought and brilliance. It ain't worth wading through the sand to get to the water.

                My thoughts too. Not denying the utility but not worth the time to monitor. I fear the switching costs of constantly looking at different stuff fucks up the brain.

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                • KlausK Offline
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                  Klaus
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                  #9

                  I find Twitter quite useful from a professional perspective. Many things going on in my professional community are announced and discussed on Twitter.

                  With regard to politics, I like that you can use it like a personalized newspaper by setting up a corresponding list. The danger is of course that that personalized newspaper becomes the infamous echo chamber.

                  The political discussions on Twitter, on the other hand, aren't useful for anything, but they can be easily ignored.

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                  • taiwan_girlT Offline
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                    #10

                    #1 - #4 For me, the answer is no. Never have used it.

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                    • JollyJ Jolly

                      Don't tweet. Rarely read any tweets, unless they are here or contained in an opinion column.

                      Tweet is a vapid wasteland of intellectual stupidity with an occasional oasis of original thought and brilliance. It ain't worth wading through the sand to get to the water.

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                      @Jolly said in Who Tweets? Who use the Twitter app? Who read tweets as SMS?:

                      Don't tweet. Rarely read any tweets, unless they are here or contained in an opinion column.

                      Tweet is a vapid wasteland of intellectual stupidity with an occasional oasis of original thought and brilliance. It ain't worth wading through the sand to get to the water.

                      👆

                      Please love yourself.

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                      • MikM Offline
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                        Nope. I l just read ones that are linked.

                        “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill

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