Comments on: Why Twitter is Evil

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:48:24 +0000

@Nettiei: Nettiei!! It really has been a while!! How you been?

I will try not to move so much anymore. And I’m actually quite attached to the moniker “nanyate” so I might stay put for a while. LOL!

I miss having a music player on my site. Radio.Blog didn’t seem to be functioning anymore. Maybe I should add an IMEEM playlist instead.

“Girls” wasn’t too bad. The lyrics aren’t particularly tasteful, but I guess he’s trying to appeal to the American audience. The music video was pretty good though! What did you think?

Alright, will remember you as Miss Toni from now!!

Take care!!

By: Nettiei

Nettiei — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:55:03 +0000

Hey Ivy ^___^. Nettiei here again. Its been such a long time. Hehe. I need to bookmark your blog so I can keep up with you!!! I just thought about you because I was listening to Se7en’s Honey I Know the other day and I was like IVY HAD THAT ON HER SITE (officially introducing me to Kpop ^__^)! What do you think about his single Girls? Its okay. Anyway, look foward to hearing from you.

<3 Miss Toni

PS: Ill probably post as Miss Toni for now on. Nettiei is super old.. XD

By: icey

icey — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:59:09 +0000

havent became a twitter fan don’t think this is a wagon i’ll be jumping on. Dont know why but it really doesn’t interest me like it does others. cute site though

By: Dayna

Dayna — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:05:14 +0000

I have only follow about 30+ people and I can get about 100+ tweets per day. I scan through all of them though. I use twitter mainly for short updates and thoughts that I couldn’t expressed into a single blog post. I do tend to have lesser blog entries when I’m using Twitter. But I find that Twitter actually reduces the probability of a random post because all the small random bits are already posted on my Twitter. I do not post them again into my blog and therefore the blog entry is more focus on a particular topic or event.

By: Lissy

Lissy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 04:09:44 +0000

I just joined this past week. Figure I’d put my unlimited text messaging to use. Gives me something to do when I’m really bored *shrugs*
My future sister in-law has a twitter account, so it’s been nice to be able to talk to her more, but otherwise I don’t find it all that fascinating.

By: Ivy

Ivy — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 04:13:32 +0000

@Jonathan Kong: Yups, every tweep I follow, I like or share common interests with. But that list is growing and that’s why I’m starting to get inundated.

Likewise, I’ve been use Delicious more than because of the amount good tweets out there.

What I’m trying to point out is that Twitter is great for delivering large volumes of info – the breadth so to speak. But following that breadth takes time away from us, which could be used to research into one specific topic to get the depth of the info and share it. So info spread on Twitter tend to get more watered down compared to the info that are spread on blogs (which usually takes a lot more expertise and a lot more research to write).

I use TwitterFox, so I don’t get the groups feature. So I either read everything or nothing. Perhaps that’s why it’s more of a pain for me. TweetDeck is great, but I’m on Firefox 99% of the time, so TwitterFox actually suits me a little better.

By: Jonathan Kong

Jonathan Kong — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 20:14:08 +0000

Now, we ‘see’ your pain but I thought this article was hilarious. ;p

Before TweetDeck came along.. it was a killer to suppress the noise (when you’re following alot of tweeps), let alone finding time to read the interesting ones.

With TweetDeck, I essentially divide the tweeps I followed into groups. So, in anytime I’d like to read tweets on say, Social Media, I make a quick scan in that group.

LIZ is right on point number 2. Follow people whom you feel shares the same interests or else, you’ll be following alot of noise instead.

With apps like Twitter & Friendfeed, I found more infos relevant to my interest in addition to RSS feeds. That actually made me use delicious bookmarking more often than before.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:13:37 +0000

I agree with many of your points, although I have to say I like Twitter. I think it works really well as a compliment to blogging

1. because it’s a way to talk about the interesting things you come across that don’t merit a blog post

2. because it seems easier somehow to find people who are interested in the same things, I guess because it makes it easier to follow the links – you can see who the people you follow are following, and chances are you will find some of them interesting too

I do feel a bit overloaded with all the Tweets sometimes (and I don’t read all mine – shame on me!!) but that’s not just Twitter.. Like there’s so much information out there that you either ignore most of it or end up not processing, like you say. I usually just switch off the computer at that point

By: Apesaje

Apesaje — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:36:33 +0000

For me, I use Twitter for all the small things. Interesting stuff that I see around me that would be too short to be written as a blog entry. But you’re right. I tend to tweet without thinking twice, unlike writing a blog. But I feel there’s more socialising in Twitter than in blogs.

By: Michael Yip

Michael Yip — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:41:55 +0000

Go Twitter! LOL