Reply to: Who here's on twitter?

[minestrone]

Fry is a complete cock socket, a total tit who has some wish to do the left wing 'thing' as if it is his sole objective in life.

I detest how he prostrates himself to the lower order "I drive a taxi" "I do darts" "let me tell you how the iPhone works for me"

He dables in people's poverty as an issue for his pronunciation and claims he is someone who lives with them. Like most of the left wing rich.

[stek]

Who here's on twitter?

Im on Twitter as Stephen Fry, got 1.2 million sycophants following me, the actual Stephen Fry is clueless on technology, it's a myth, he likes Victorian Steam Engines or something..

[minestrone]

I have 3 accounts, one for me, one for sport and one for business.

In my eyes twitter fails because you might follow someone for a reason but only 10% of their tweets have any relevence to why you follow. You have to put up with complete mince 9 times to read that one thing you want to hear.

#justsaying

[NickFitz]

Jaysus the tulipe that people 'tweet'.

That's up to you; you choose who to follow, and therefore what you see. If you follow people who tweet tulipe, that's what you'll get; if you follow people who tweet interesting stuff, it'll be interesting.

One caveat is that somebody might tweet interesting stuff most of the time, but also retweet a lot of tulipe. In that case, you can turn off retweets from that person, so you only see their stuff. But most people retweet stuff on their own level; some of the most interesting people I follow are ones I first encountered when they were retweeted by somebody I already followed.

[d000hg]

It overlaps FaceBook - especially since FB tries to copy Twitter's functionality - but FB isa bout a network with your friends whereas Twitter is good for keeping track of people you don't know. Maybe your local sandwich shop. Or sports writer who can share tid-bits of information as they go about their work, etc.

I don't really use it much but I see the attraction to those who are interested in sport, music, etc... it let's you get a much deeper/closer insight into people you find interesting.

[MaryPoppins]

I do not get twitter.

I don't geddit.

I just don't understand the point.

We have facebook, so I assumed it was an alternative.

But people do both. How? Why?

Jaysus the tulipe that people 'tweet'.

[darmstadt]

Stephen Fry follows me, nuff said...

How's your bum?

[seabro]

Do you still bother with it or is it just noise like facebook status updates.

I use Twitter and find it very helpful. The local council tweets interesting stuff like floods, road closures, accidents etc. Sky tweets breaking news etc. And of course, I can find out what friends are upto. When bored, I can read comments on topical issues using a hashtag. I think it's great.

[d000hg]

That irony hadn't passed me by.

I have little to absolutely no faith in the security of the social networking sites, frankly I think anyone who trusts them is rather naive.

They spend more on their data centres than pretty much anyone else does, including banks I reckon.

[SimonMac]

That irony hadn't passed me by.

I have little to absolutely no faith in the security of the social networking sites, frankly I think anyone who trusts them is rather naive.

I am not saying I trust them, I am saying I understand them, I only share what I am willing people to know

[TykeMerc]

The irony of saying that on an online forum!

I only share what I want people to know, all of these sites have adequate security settings, if you know and understand them. My twitter is open, but mainly anonymised so 99% of the people won't know who I am, facebook however is the other way rounds, tightly restricted with personal information

That irony hadn't passed me by.

I have little to absolutely no faith in the security of the social networking sites, frankly I think anyone who trusts them is rather naive.

[SimonMac]

You're getting plenty of attention for the profile on villagepeopledating.com I set up for you.

Some guy called Longaussie really wants a piece.

Funny you should say that BP, did ask for a photo of me in a leather cap

[Pondlife]

Not much anyone can do with a name and a photo, oh hang on!

You're getting plenty of attention for the profile on villagepeopledating.com I set up for you.

Some guy called Longaussie really wants a piece.

[SimonMac]

and a link to your name and mugshot in your sig on here.

Not much anyone can do with a name and a photo, oh hang on!

[Pondlife]

The irony of saying that on an online forum!

I only share what I want people to know, all of these sites have adequate security settings, if you know and understand them. My twitter is open, but mainly anonymised so 99% of the people won't know who I am, facebook however is the other way rounds, tightly restricted with personal information

and a link to your name and mugshot in your sig on here.