Someone care to explain why Twitter is cool?
No, seriously … Twitter seems to be this months fad, but I’m failing to grasp why… I just cannot wrap my head around why the fuck people find it so interesting?
First, lets just make sure I understand this shit:
A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing? Answer on your phone, IM, or right here on the web!
Ok … So, why do I even remotely care about what a billion random strangers are doing right now?
Now, I suppose you can say the same thing about maintaining an online journal or reading the random blog, but at least there seems to be a purpose in that; You search for something, you get a bunch of links, you read the things you’re interested in. Hell, maybe you go to one of the many aggregator sites out there and catch up on whatever is going on.
I just fail to understand how anyone can find twitter interesting, much less why so many people are participating.
I actually took a few minutes to try and grasp it, watching messages like:
- “taking a dump”
- “in the library”
- “Finally cleaning up the mess from our party with the Packowskis.”
WHO THE FUCK ARE THE PACKOWSKIS and why the fuck do I even remotely give a flying fuck about you cleaning up the empty Vodka bottles and leftover Polish sausage bits they left behind?? If you’re gonna tell me that you’re taking a shit, at least take the laptop in there with ya and give me a play-by-play. Oh, and WTF is a library?? Don’t you know you can just download it.
Is everyone that bored? WHAT? What is the fuckin’ deal. Someone please ‘xplain it to me…
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March 26th, 2007 14:22
Die motherfucker!
March 26th, 2007 14:35
Wow adaasd, to what do I owe the pleasure of having the most intelligent person on Internet stopping by to pay me a visit. I’m honored.
And in an odd way, you just explained why twitter is cool.
March 27th, 2007 13:54
lol great article. i agree 100%.
And who would have thought this post would get the most intelligent person on the Internet to post here?
also
“WHO THE FUCK ARE THE PACKOWSKIS”
no joke - i laughed out loud.
nice site.
March 28th, 2007 10:38
Thanks…
I still don’t understand this obsession — not to mention all the half-assed rationalizations, by analysts and the in crowd, that make twitter out to be something great.
Bah — idiocy.
March 29th, 2007 12:52
Think of Twitter as an application server.
Middleware. It posts updates to alternate output sources. Wrap your mind around that. Yeah, it’s instant messaging. Did you know that apps instant message too? For all kinds of reasons. Now what if my app used twitter to message another app? Not even one of my own. Mmmmm….
March 31st, 2007 16:21
Go take another bong hit, anon.
Using twitter as a personal middleware is a neat idea — but in the bigger picture, it’s silly. It’s a single, centralized, point of failure. I certainly wouldn’t consider it a viable option for any sort of system critical application.
I’m glad it’s started some people thinking a bit more creatively, but plenty of options (better options in my opinion) already exist.
April 4th, 2007 18:34
Well, I’m glad too see it’s not just that I’m clueless; this Twitter thing really does seem to be going off the deep end. The first “tweeter” I looked at had posted 800 updates in the last 6 weeks. Do people really have this much free time? I mean, couldn’t all this time & energy be much better spent playing Second Life?
April 7th, 2007 22:59
I don’t know if you’ve answered your own question, Anti-Blogger, but I like the many other questions you raised, particularly concerning the Packowskis.
I signed up… wrote one lame entry about “thinking about ordering Thai food”, felt emptier than before and slightly ashamed, and decided Twitter sucks… I think.
May 18th, 2007 16:46
i think it’s just procrastination… something to do until the lab tech realizes that you aren’t studying Spanish. Instead youre roaming around trying to find something humerous that someone said. Most of the time though it’s fluff, or just lame, uninteresting crap.
I add people who post in other languages. So that shows you how important content is.
I found your blog when I aimlessly typed “fuck twitter” into google.