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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by WhoMikeJames, Apr 19, 2009.

  1. WhoMikeJames

    WhoMikeJames Member

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    Whats the big deal about Twitter? Everyone has it now (Clutchfans, celebrities, players).

    A couple of weeks ago I didn't even know what Twitter was and now you hear about it everywhere.
     
  2. TheRealist137

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    Don't know, I agree with Charles though. If you need to know what a person is doing every minute of their lives than you yourself have no life.
     
  3. plutoblue11

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    It has crossed my mind a couple of times and I was probably going to ask the same thing, eventually. People won't shut up about it, but I don't see anything innovative about it. But, I know how fads are...
     
  4. CountyClerk

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    It just an internet fad and will go away soon just like facebook, xanga, myspace, etc etc etc...
     
  5. Rocket River

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    CNN seemed to spend all day yesterday going on and on
    how Ashton Krutcher got a millions Twits [appropriate name?] before they did

    all I could think of was. . .WTF . . Slow News day???

    Rocket River
    . . .HE WAS ON FRICKING LARRY KING TALKING ABOUT IT !!
     
  6. gucci888

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    My friend actually had a theory that Twitter was invented by the government to monitor people. I actually thought it was an interesting theory just because I had read earlier how CNN had broken the earthquake in Italy story because someone "twittered it."
     
  7. v3.0

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    I look at Jason Friedman's twitter and anything Rockets related for any scoop. Other then that, kinda dorkish to me.
     
  8. duwende

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    Wasn't there some journalist who got jailed in Egypt a few years ago, no one knew about his status until he twittered that he was in jail?
     
  9. TheBigAristotle

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    No joke. I'd heard of Twitter in the past but nothing like the last few weeks/month or two. No one ****ing cares. I will not get one , STOP TALKING ABOUT IT.
     
  10. Space Ghost

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    I always thought how stupid it was when people updated their status on myspace daily (even several times a day). If you have a continuous audience, its useful, but outside that, its silly. I don't care what you are doing and I surely don't want everyone to know what im doing 24/7.
     
  11. TheBigAristotle

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    Oh, is that really all it is??
     
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    What is "Twitter"?


    Actually, Don't answer that.
     
  13. ferrari77

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    Dude that's not even half as bad as Facebook and their "status" thing. Good lawd it's silly. People update it w/the most ridiculous crap and I just turn down the settings as to whose status I'd care to read about-basically no one.
     
  14. The Hunted

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    This thread needed to be made! So sick of hearing about Twitter! :mad:
     
  15. rezdawg

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    Facebook is as strong as ever.
     
  16. WhoMikeJames

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    Yeah. People seem to love the fact that others know what they are doing at all times.
     
  17. arkoe

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    I liked JVG's explanation of why he doesn't use twitter, facebook, etc the other day during the Cavs game. Paraphrasing because I don't remember exactly, but he basically said "I don't Twitter or any of those social networking sites because I'm neither social nor know how to network."
     
  18. ItsMyFault

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    I have it, just started it last week, I don't really update my status too much. I have Friedman, Clutch, and others followed to my phone via text also, I don't know I really keep it for news. The other stuff, I mean it's not like I check it everyday, it's just something on the side. I do like the insider news before its released in the news though about the Rockets.
     
  19. DaDakota

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    Isn't it just like IM or text messages, but you can broadcast them, or make them viewable by everyone?

    DD
     
  20. david_rocket

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    I dont like twitter either, I dont want to know, everytime a person is going to take a poop, I dont care what you do with your life, If I want to about my friends, I call them or chat with in the messenger.
     

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