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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:15 PM
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What is the point of Twitter?
It's like Facebook without people's names and just status updates, right?

Why wouldn't I use just Facebook?
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sammythecat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:19 PM
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1. I don't know either
I'm waiting for replies too. Maybe there is one? :shrug:
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HopeHoops Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:24 PM
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2. Twitter is simple.
It is so twits with no life can post up to 140 characters like "I just took a dump" and other people who also don't have a life can respond.

I think that was about 139 characters so that could have been a "twit".
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:25 PM
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3. Hey, I twitter
Well, technically my blog does, and only when it gets updated.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:29 PM
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5. While others with no lives complain about Twitter elsewhere on the internets.
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:58 PM
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10. +5-0!!
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:51 PM
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15. -44-6!!
:P
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 03:33 PM
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19. Hey, y'all started it!
:rofl:
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:28 PM
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4. It's a fun waste of time.
I'm gonna have to start shanking people soon, way too much whining about such an innocuous fucking website.
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:32 PM
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6. I don't have any problem with it. I just want to know what the added value is.
If I'm following the same people on Twitter as I'm friends with on Facebook; what's the point?
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:36 PM
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7. I post random shit on Twitter that I never post on Facebook.
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Cant trust em Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:39 PM
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8. Are you ghostsofgiants on twitter?
Maybe I'll follow you on there. Could be fun entertainment.

I think I'll take that route. I have too much family on Facebook. I find myself having to censor myself pretty frequently.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:13 PM
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11. Sure am.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:35 PM
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13. Dude, I am so going to follow you
Also, if you like musician jokes, follow a gentleman named Mick_Shrimpton (just like the Spinal Tap drummer). He cracks me up.
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 07:58 PM
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23. Awesome.
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PeaceNikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 12:56 PM
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9. It's also a really cool way to get real-time updates from places/people like NPR news, Wonkette,
The Onion, Shaquille O'Neil and Martha Stewart. :D
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 01:13 PM
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12. F'sho.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:57 PM
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16. What about me?
http://twitter.com/Mr_Scorpio
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 02:47 PM
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14. this
its just for random shit that pops into your head. like stream of consciousness.

I have found that can be very insightful :D
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ghostsofgiants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 03:03 PM
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17. Exactly!
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 03:06 PM
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18. It's there just to piss you off.
Edited on Fri May-01-09 03:06 PM by KamaAina
Actually, it's there just to piss lots of people off.

edit: to
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 03:36 PM
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20. Twitter is more convenient than FaceSpace.
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My Good Babushka Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 04:42 PM
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21. I always twitter
when I have made updates to my etsy store, added new products n' such.
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-01-09 04:43 PM
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22. You could "tweet" that question to all your followers
and get almost as many responses as you'd get here. Or not.
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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 08:11 PM
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24. For some strange reason
that cracked me up!
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hibbing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 10:55 PM
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25. I don't think it has a point..
Hi,
I skipped the whole myface and facespace thing but do use twitter. It is dumb but kind of fun. Lance Armstrong is fun to follow just because of the life he leads. Rob Corddry posts what I think are pretty twisted things, and I also follow Jim Gaffigan along with family members. To each his/her own. I never got the point of the others, and don't really get the point of this, but just find it fun and goofy.

Peace
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astonamous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-02-09 11:31 PM
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26. You can get updates from the Senate and House...link
http://twitter.pbworks.com/USGovernment
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