Does anyone give a tuppenny damn about Twitter?

theguzman wrote: »

A bunch of dangerous anti-social Marxist clowns with an axe to grind who would want to see the real world and come out of their own bubble for a change.

I'm a fan of its better side. Very good for instant information and curation can filter out the nutters and the bile from your feed. It sums up the best and worst of social media.

Hurrache wrote: »

You do understand that the 'echo chamber' is by and large your own self creation don't you? You chose to follow or interact with certain people and that's how your time line gets created.

^^This^^

Though Jack Dorsey has come out recently with idea's of changing the format to more group based approach meaning this could end up becoming even more of an echo chamber.

This was in reaction to the calls of alot of left wing bias (inconsistent monitoring, the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos and many others with right wing views.

KSU wrote: »

^^This^^

Though Jack Dorsey has come out recently with idea's of changing the format to more group based approach meaning this could end up becoming even more of an echo chamber.

This was in reaction to the calls of alot of left wing bias (inconsistent monitoring, the banning of Milo Yiannopoulos and many others with right wing views.

Yiannopoulos is a troll by nature and some right wing views really don't deserve any platform.

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

About 3 yrs ago I downloaded the app and registered. Gave it a go for s few days...I have never come across such utter Shiite in all my life. I deleted my account and the app after about 2 days.

My initial reaction too. At least 75% of it is just noise but there is good stuff there once you block out all of the rubbish.

There's gay Twitter. You'd like it, I'm sure.

I don't use it, don't care for it.

Woke Hogan wrote: »

None of those social media sites have any value. None of them. Not Twitter, Tinder, Facebook, Instagram or any of them are any good.

My daughter is always on Instagram and I remind her that she’s wasting her time on that ****e, sharing posts about “fatphobia” and “diet culture.” Looking for excuses to eat like a pig.

My son is on something called Strava with his friends, that one is for people who run. That’s a bit better, a social media page for getting out of the house!

They're tools, and like all tools, they're only of use when you know how to use them. Your daughter is the issue I'm sorry to say.

JohnnyFlash wrote: »

They aren't exactly hard to use, dude. A rhesus monkey could probably be up and running within the hour, and spouting his worthless opinions on them by late morning.

They obviously are.

I rarely post anything on it but follow lots of politics, news, current affairs people which is great for keeping up to date on Trump and Brexit amongst other things. After that it's tech, gaming, tv and radio feeds which give you a heads up on what they might be covering or have covered. Between that and youtube clips, traditional newspaper and broadcast TV is almost finished for me.

Its a great resource as long as you don't follow idiots/influencers/vacuous pricks.

is_that_so wrote: »

Yiannopoulos is a troll by nature and some right wing views really don't deserve any platform.

The complaints weren't about him being banned per say it was the fact that he was banned for comparable or lesser comments than notable liberals showing a political bias in how it is policed while claiming they can't do anything about trolls because they don't want to censor content.

I don't use it or take it seriously. The only thing it's contributed as far as I can see is making life easier for lazy journalists who just copy and paste from Twitter and hawk the output as a "story". I also hate the way the press and news media treat Twitter as if it's somehow something important. Twitter proves the saying that just because you have an audience doesn't mean you actually have anything to say.

"Twitter had a meltdown" = several Twitter users had a whinge. Yawn.

storker wrote: »

I don't use it or take it seriously. The only thing it's contributed as far as I can see is making life easier for lazy journalists who just copy and paste from Twitter and hawk the output as a "story". I also hate the way the press and news media treat Twitter as if it's somehow something important. Twitter proves the saying that just because you have an audience doesn't mean you actually have anything to say.

"Twitter had a meltdown" = several Twitter users had a whinge. Yawn.

Do you not realise that the best journalists and media use twitter as a method to publicise their stories? A lot of important stories break and develop on twitter.

Agustin Panicky Donkey wrote: »

I agree it makes journalists lazy but only the "entertainment", "gossip", sh1tty tabloid ones.

I've seen plenty of Twitter non-stories in the more respectable papers too...or at least, their online editions.

storker wrote: »

If it's publicising a story that's already been properly written, that's fine, but I suspect anyone interested in news won't need the help of Twitter to find it.

As I said, you'll find a lot of the news sooner on Twitter. If you think you don't need twitter, you'll be getting your news in many cases later than everyone else. Events like the attempted coup in Turkey, Egypt, Sullie's plane crash, all sorts of political and sports stories that lead to broader stories.

Traditional print media journalists even flag and preview major stories on Twitter first.

twitter is brilliant for ideas, as a conversation medium its very different to all the others

I only use it for Speed Camera & Check Point alerts

Cee-Jay-Cee wrote: »

I followed a few people that I liked on tv and a few news sites, no one else and it was still a load of Shiite.

I fail to see how anyone can be so brain dead that they have an interest in reading the random thoughts and musings of people that they most likely have never met and don’t actually know but hey knock yourself out if that’s what interests you.

But this is what you don't seem to get. The ****e you were reading was ****e you chose to read based on a person you chose. That person you followed was responsible for that ****e.

I fail to see how anyone can be so brain dead that they have an interest in reading the random thoughts and musings of people that they most likely have never met and don’t actually know but hey knock yourself out if that’s what interests you.

In your first sentence you literally said that's what you done.

And there's no obligation to read random thoughts and musings from anyone.

You just need to clean up house and filter.