I’m curious to know how people use Twitter and why. Do the tweets you follow pop up automatically on your phone, or do you have to go to the site to read them? What do you get from it? I’ve looked at Twitter a few times, and I’ve yet to see anything that would have repaid the effort of looking for it. What can someone say in 140 characters that you want to read? For things like “Demonstration in Tahrir Square 6pm”, or “Got out of Sendai, crashing with friend in Tokyo” I can see the point, but not talking points without the talk.
I use it because I think and thus write in one-liners. I read it because it’s a nice place to post links and one-liners, and because one can dip into it as one wishes to. I read it just on the site, my girlfriend follows it on her phone as well.
I’m curious to know how people use Twitter and why. Do the tweets you follow pop up automatically on your phone, or do you have to go to the site to read them? What do you get from it? I’ve looked at Twitter a few times, and I’ve yet to see anything that would have repaid the effort of looking for it. What can someone say in 140 characters that you want to read? For things like “Demonstration in Tahrir Square 6pm”, or “Got out of Sendai, crashing with friend in Tokyo” I can see the point, but not talking points without the talk.
I use it because I think and thus write in one-liners. I read it because it’s a nice place to post links and one-liners, and because one can dip into it as one wishes to. I read it just on the site, my girlfriend follows it on her phone as well.