Danny's Ongoing Adventures Into Tweeting

[Danny Ocean]

[HEADING=2]So,[/HEADING] after seeing this in a certain persons profile...

Spoiler: Click me!

Cookie if you guess who.

...and being in a state not dissimilar to inebriation due to it being quite early late. I thought, "Hey. You know what? I've heard so much about this, let's give it a go!"

So I drive my browser-mobile over to the twitter homepage, sign up, fill in all the forms and set my picture, I even sign up my phone. Long story short, I don't know what the feck is going on. As my one follower will attest to. Oh, apparently I already have a follower, by the way, although I don't know who they are. Take a look.

Spoiler: And me!

The Infamous Non-existant Man. [small]I'm not even following that thing. First person to make a crack at my Bio forfeits all their
cookies.[/small]

I also, supposedly, have five updates, but I only see 4. It's also not showing any of the three texts I've sent to it.

[HEADING=3]Regardless,[/HEADING] I am determined to persevere with this! So I make this thread to ask not just for explanation as to my what-the-fuck-ery, but also as an open invitation to add, friend, leech, or find me on twitter. My username is _DannyOcean[small] (Although I won't pretend to know if that's what you need or not)[/small]. Whatever you do and whichever way you go about it, I look forward to following you!

 

[Calobi]

What, if I may be so bold, is the real draw to Twitter? Does anyone care what other people are doing at all times?

 

[Internet Kraken]

What exactly is twitter anyways? I keep hearing about, but I never bothered to look into it.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

You were followed by a porn-bot who was swiftly banned.
That's my theory, anyway. I only have eighteen followers, and it says I have fourty seven.
It's a new system. They're still working out the kinks, I guess?

Also, I know it doesn't seem like much now, but it slowly becomes addictive.
Seriously. It is like TvTropes, minus the browser-crashing goodness.

 

[Lord Krunk]

What, if I may be so bold, is the real draw to Twitter? Does anyone care what other people are doing at all times?

There are news programs and sites that use Twitter for news as it happens. Besides that, I don't know.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Are you pimping out your twitter to us? Also thats mr nomoresanity on there. Youre not interesting enough to follow on twitter or anywhere else.

Ouch. No cookie for you.

You were followed by a porn-bot who was swiftly banned.
That's my theory, anyway. I only have eighteen followers, and it says I have fourty seven.
It's a new system. They're still working out the kinks, I guess?

Also, I know it doesn't seem like much now, but it slowly becomes addictive.
Seriously. It is like TvTropes, minus the browser-crashing goodness.

It's not that new, is it? Wait, it's that addictive? I've missed a night of sleep doing various computer-based things without twitter. If this gets me hooked I can kiss the inside of my eyelids goodbye.

Statement: That is me you foolish meatbag.

Plus I might follow you on Twitter just to save your self-esteem.

Do you take cookies, or would you prefer a memory bank upgrade?

Don't do it for that reason, I'm not into it enough for that to be a factor.

 

[Calobi]

What exactly is twitter anyways? I keep hearing about, but I never bothered to look into it.

Twitter is a way to stalk people all the time. They put in what they're doing/how they're feeling/stupid statements/gems of wisdom/whatever they want similar to Facebook's status update. The catch: Character limit of 140 (I believe). Also, there's no way to remove them once you post so what you say stays on your Twitter page thing forever, just eventually further down the list of Tweets (That's the name for the updates).

It's a new system. They're still working out the kinks, I guess?

Is the followers thing new? Twitter is 3 years old now, which should be enough time to work out kinks like counting failures I would imagine.

 

[Internet Kraken]

What exactly is twitter anyways? I keep hearing about, but I never bothered to look into it.

Twitter is a way to stalk people all the time. They put in what they're doing/how they're feeling/stupid statements/gems of wisdom/whatever they want similar to Facebook's status update. The catch: Character limit of 140 (I believe). Also, there's no way to remove them once you post so what you say stays on your Twitter page thing forever, just eventually further down the list of Tweets (That's the name for the updates).

So....it's like a blog, only more inconvenient?

 

[ElephantGuts]

I don't have a Twitter. Seems pretty pointless to me. Then again, I wouldn't have many people to talk to on it...

 

[Calobi]

What exactly is twitter anyways? I keep hearing about, but I never bothered to look into it.

Twitter is a way to stalk people all the time. They put in what they're doing/how they're feeling/stupid statements/gems of wisdom/whatever they want similar to Facebook's status update. The catch: Character limit of 140 (I believe). Also, there's no way to remove them once you post so what you say stays on your Twitter page thing forever, just eventually further down the list of Tweets (That's the name for the updates).

So....it's like a blog, only more inconvenient?

Yes and no. It's a nice way to allow people to stalk you. It really is only good for "What am I doing right this instant" from what I've seen. There's little in the way of customization beyond what your page looks like, which most other people will never see.

Think of sending out a mass text message to the Internet that anyone can see, and that some people are alerted to immediately, and that's Twitter.

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What exactly is twitter anyways? I keep hearing about, but I never bothered to look into it.

Twitter is a way to stalk people all the time. They put in what they're doing/how they're feeling/stupid statements/gems of wisdom/whatever they want similar to Facebook's status update. The catch: Character limit of 140 (I believe). Also, there's no way to remove them once you post so what you say stays on your Twitter page thing forever, just eventually further down the list of Tweets (That's the name for the updates).

So....it's like a blog, only more inconvenient?

Rebuttal: You can delete your tweets. But the 140 character limit is annoying.

You can? When did that happen?

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

It's not that new, is it? Wait, it's that addictive? I've missed a night of sleep doing various computer-based things without twitter. If this gets me hooked I can kiss the inside of my eyelids goodbye.

Is the followers thing new? Twitter is 3 years old now, which should be enough time to work out kinks like counting failures I would imagine.

The followers thing recently got an update. I was talking about that.

 

[Danny Ocean]

Ouch. No cookie for you.

Oh its nothing against you, im sure youre a groovy guy...Its my general consensus about anyone on twitter. Wait i did add that "or anywhere part" didnt i? Ok maybe I am lying.

Oh it's OK. Don't worry. I don't really care. This is all just an experiment to me.

Think of sending out a mass text message to the Internet that anyone can see, and that some people are alerted to immediately, and that's Twitter.

That's what I thought of it at first, too. You can choose who follows you by making them have to be accepted first. I'll let the more proficient twitters explain it out, I'm sure they'll do a far better job than me.

 

[Spleenbag]

Query: Why do so many meatbags insist on constantly blaring their activities to the world? I am fine with FaceBook and MySpace, but Twitter seems to be the e-meatbag equivalent of saying through a megaphone, "I, a meatbag, am eating a specific, digestible, and energy-producing object at a commonly accepted time. That is all."

Query: Fellow HK Unit NoMoreSanity, is it prudent to adopt your mode of speech?

 

[AboveUp]

I've never really seen Twitter as a form of blogging at all. I always saw it as a form of mass IMing without having to download a messenger.

I'm RuroRemy on the Twitter by the way.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

twitter is evil, not sure if i hate that or people who update facebook all the damn time with what they're doing