@twitter #twitter ur lame
I’ve gotten so sick of hearing about Twitter. I always thought it was some weird thing teenagers did but even the software company I work for is on Twitter now. They launched a new marketing campaign recently and when they told us that we’ll be on Twitter (in addition to Facebook) I thought “I give up… I’ve got to check out what the hell this Twitter thing is”.
So I created an account and… well it’s about what I thought it was. You send little text updates to people and receive updates from them. Kind of neat I guess but not seeing the big deal. First off, I already experience that to some degree with Facebook status updates. Secondly, this is what the media are hyping so much? People sending off 140 character messages about random stuff that’s happening? I suppose there could be some useful news in there but it’d be buried under a ton of boring crap.
That being said…
Hey everyone, I’m on Twitter!!! It’s sooo cool. If you aren’t on Twitter, you’re out of the loop. My username is magicpork.
OK, there I tried to sound excited about it. If you try to find me and can’t, then it probably means I’ve already given up by the time you read this. Consider this an experiment, much like this blog was. If you look like a spammer, I may prune you from my “followers” list, but other than that anyone & everyone can sign up to follow me.
If you’re not on Twitter and have no idea what I’m talking about, believe me I didn’t know what this stuff meant either until just this week. Magic Pork is not going away… I will continue to post very infrequent blog entries as I have been. I do tend to have things to say that take more than 140 characters.
Update: Because Twitter is lame, my account isn’t showing up yet when you search for me. If you’re logged into Twitter, try going to http://twitter.com/magicpork and clicking “Follow”.
Another update: My Twitter RSS feed is http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/55052591.rss.
July 15th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
dude, twitter is awesome. i tried to add you and it said: “did you mean magic pony?” as a proud creator of tweets, me thinks you’re missing out.
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July 15th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
Yet another reason for me to dislike Twitter. @magicpork exists, I don’t know why the search doesn’t find it.
July 15th, 2009 at 9:19 pm
So far I’m with you, Kev. Maybe it’s a generation gap or something, but I’m having a hard time really understanding the twitter mania. One thing that helps would be to start following some people you’re interested in, or take a look at the current trends, or search for a topic you are interested in and follow some of the people who mention it. I’ve followed a few and it’s become mildly interesting now.
One thing I do understand, however, is why celebrities and media companies are so enamored with it — they can see exactly how many people are following them. For celebrities it feeds their egos and they can compete with their celebrity friends on who has more followers. Media companies can get an exact number of people they can “reach”, which is hugely valuable in an industry where they normally have no idea how many people are seeing their advert.
July 22nd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
I don’t know what the issue was, but my Twitter account shows up in a search now. Just when I was thinking of deleting it.