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(111,110 posts)but maybe it is time to have a special forum for Twitter links? They are a nuisance.
doc03
(35,372 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)don't even have Facebook
fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)leftofcool
(19,460 posts)Better Twitter than FB which is a joke.
KatyMan
(4,209 posts)Many people read DU at work and most companies block Twitter so we don't know what tweets say.
JDC
(10,133 posts)Filled with endless, disconnected threads
LexVegas
(6,095 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)People can copy and paste a twitter post, btw.
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)I just ignore posts with links to twitter.
Seems to me that following people on twitter is sort of like living vicariously through them.
JI7
(89,269 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)It like everything, is a tool. It's all n how you use it.
Last night twitterers that I follow and trust pegged the attack (and details of) almost an hour ahead of other news.
krawhitham
(4,647 posts)Cha
(297,666 posts)you stated.
I read the best twitter feeds and the tweets posted here are brilliant.. from news of Joy, Hillary, Malcolm Nance, Adam Schiff, Ted Lieu, Nerdy Wonka.. etc etc!
Shines the Light
Rhiannon12866
(206,016 posts)Last November. It was one way of keeping up with current news - and how things were going regarding DU. I'm still not that proficient at it, but I limit what I deal with there, mainly "follow" news sites, my representatives and those I like, and certain informed posters, several from DU. My interests are news, anti Trump and pro animal, pretty much the same interests we discuss here on DU. I look at it as just one more way of staying informed.
LeftInTX
(25,555 posts)Will cut/paste text next time I link.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)Twitter is a valid communication method, like it or not.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)doc03
(35,372 posts)it can be pure bullshit and fake news. Someone makes a ten word post on twitter and people fill in the blanks with
whatever they want to hear. It has to be the worst form there is to base your political beliefs in. Same goes for Facebook
people post what they had for breakfast and when they took a crap, who gives a damn.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)Cha
(297,666 posts)the bullshit of cable talking heads, too.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)And the search feature is very good. You can zero in on what trump said about Syria in the past with no problems.
Link to tweet
Cha
(297,666 posts)Big mouth.. Tweets are forever.. "Obama needs Congressional approval.."
Link to tweet
"But I sure as fuck don't"
uppityperson
(115,680 posts)bigtree
(86,005 posts)...nothing else compares for sources, quotes, links, and breaking news.
Keep up.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)It is awesome if you know how to use it, and having a tweet to go to provides you with the comments to the tweet and myriad other links to the story.
It may not be as easy to use a a cave wall painting, but is it an improvement ... try to keep up
whistler162
(11,155 posts)how about a nice bridge in NYC and maybe some ocean side property in Arizona!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)fleabiscuit
(4,542 posts)tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)And stay off my lawn!
Idoru
(167 posts)I don't have a twitter account and have no problem with the twitter posts.
A lot of news is coming out of twitter now, should it just be ignored? I don't get it.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Partial thoughts, partial sentences, partial ideas. Dumbing down of the planet.
tandem5
(2,072 posts)You see back in the day we had to dial into a BBS to post messages, but not everybody had the same BBS, but no worries because the ARPANET became the internet and people could post across newsgroups, but it was all text unless you uuencoded -- sad face emoticon! But happy face emoji because hurray for TCP/IP for the masses and Netscape Navigator! Forget posting to a newsgroup because I don't care what you have to say! I got my own homesteaded Geocities web page so behold my brilliance (just not right now: ). The primordial blog was born!
Meanwhile cellular phones (as they were once called) were becoming commonplace and people wondered if those letters above the numbers could be fashioned together to type out Western Union-like telegrams because nothing says progress than doing old things with new tech and whamo presto SMS protocols were codified. You could say anything so long as you stayed within 160 characters, but generally you would never get that far because you had to press the 6 key three times to get the letter O for crying out loud!
Fast forward a bit to internet 1.2 alpha and we've shunned Geocities and are pushing our shiny new auto generated Word Press blogs. We now have things to say, but unfortunately it's obscure and deadly dull and no matter how many times we cajole our friends we can never get them to visit our blog more than a couple of times. It was a lonely, lonely time.
While we waited for visitors we ventured out and found special interest message boards (like this here board), and early social media sites. We were happy with the message boards, but true social media failed because nobody had yet figured out a way to incentivize social reciprocation. In other words, I'll like your stupid baby picture if you comment on my awesome snowboard video.
The other missing component for social media was aggregation. Enter RSS! Unfortunately everybody that used RSS in its raw form had ten thousand unread articles in their feed and everybody that didn't use RSS asked, "what's RSS?"
Our social media was aggregated with internet 2.0 and Facebook and our feeds were inundated with stupid baby pictures. Things started to shift away from "me" and back to "you." Which, of course, is unacceptable. Maybe the original unidirectional blogs weren't so bad after all. Okay maybe there would be a bit of reciprocation: "I'll follow you if you follow me", but we needed a way to get in and get out quickly, share our importance, while only reading about interesting people and things in an aggregated way. What better way to to convey this importance than blogging while mobile (I'm too busy with important life stuff to sit at a computer!), and with that micro-blogging and Twitter came into being. (I would still have deadly dull things to say, but it would be so brief that you would be done reading it before you had a chance to stop reading it -- so HA!)
Even though the internet was 2.0, cell phones, as they were now called, were mostly dumb and the lowest common denominator in mobile text communication was still SMS with its 160 character limitation (minus 20 with some Twitter overhead).
So that's that twitter thing that your employer is blocking you from reading on your computer because you don't use Twitter on your smart phone which now, by the way, is just called your phone.
You're welcome! Happy face emoji:
HAB911
(8,914 posts)heads just
steve2470
(37,457 posts)cwydro
(51,308 posts)So many on DU think every tweet is true.
Gullible twits.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)What is ridiculous are those who see a tool and don't realize it can be used for various things.
cwydro
(51,308 posts)The twitter posts are amusing.
I enjoy them.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)If you think Twitter is somehow not worthwhile, you have NOT learned how to use it yet.
MineralMan
(146,331 posts)The proof would be to go to the GD thread list and systematically click each thread in that list and count the ones that were Twitter threads. Then, you could figure out the percentage of threads that begin with a Twitter link.
I'm sure you'd find that "every damn thread" is actually NOT a Twitter thread. In fact, there are far more threads that are not than that are.
Try it, and then report back, OK?