DiddlerDo wrote:I'm assuming you mean "follows" rather than "followers" - Don't follow comedians. They're by and large rubbish, nick people's jokes, are generally unpleasant, or only post boring middle-class consensus Mock the Week humour (so basically avoid Chris Addison, Graham Linehan, Robert Webb, David Schneider, etc.) - Don't follow website feeds. All they do is clog your feed up with auto-updates with headlines of stories you'll never read. Just bookmark the websites instead - Similar to Point 1, but avoid Twitter personalities, especially left-wingers (the majority of Twitter) who fancy themselves as stand-up comedians. That way lies tiresome Twitter outrages and jokes about Nick Clegg |
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Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Twitter's really good for destroying the mysticism of celebrity. My high point is discovering Jason Bateman is a bit stupid and Bruce Campbell doesn't know when to let a joke die. -
Tom_Servo 18,079 posts
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Registered 11 years agoWilliam Shatner often comes over surprisingly well. -
RyanDS 14,073 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI don't get it.
I installed it yesterday as I heard it was a good way of keeping track of news and podcasts etc in areas of interest. (Mainly inspired as Podcasts on ipad and my BT internet both went down, apparently twitter was abuzz with the news and I would have saved myself a lot of frustration if I had known that.)
SO I installed it, and followed several people...
Dan Carlin (for when his next podcast is announced)
HPPodcraft (same)
George Takei (recomended)
Patrick Stewart (Recomended)
And so on.
20 minutes later the feed is full of pictures of cats, retweets of pictures of dogs and general other shit.
So straight away Takei and Stewart were removed, leaving just the podcasts, where I await updates. Sure enough I start getting retweets (which I assume is a way of forwarding spam?)from HPPodcraft and so look at deleting them, and with them my account.
However I pause as looking at their feed it is actually what I want, it is just they spam you with this other shit. So my question is:
Is Twitter actually useful for following stuff, or is it like facebook, pointless as the occassional good stuff is swamped by the dross? And can you set it to just get tweets from a person and stop any spam forwarding? -
It is useful - but it's often hard to see at the beginning. Once you reach a critical mass of accounts you are following then it makes more sense. Once you've got all the bands you like, companies whose products you use, news sources, podcasts, websites etc. it all comes together. -
fletch7100 8,372 posts
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I just have gaming sites, couple of news sites, science news sites( NASA etc), London transport/ rail hear about any delays. Pretty much all I need -
Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI had my first Twitter beef with a fellow of some importance here in Sweden. Had all the ingredients of a Twitter.
A completely non issue to fight over
One side playing the "Some of my best friends" (him)
One side posting public passive agressive tweets (him)
One side getting knickers in a twist (him)
One side egging the other on with "Sensitive much?" taunts (me)
So thank you EG for teaching me how to fight dirty on the net. -
Had to warn my daughter about Twitter. She's 18 and was using it in a very emo way and basically swearing and complaining about everyone and everything.
I pointed out it was very easy to see her account (she was so prolific that her name was top of the search rankings) and that once someone retweeted something of hers it was impossible to "untweet" it. This is someone who wants to go to Uni / get a job as a pyschologist and is online 24/7 saying how "fucking crap her teachers are" and how she "can't be fucked with any of this learning bollocks". A quick Google by her prospective University and she'd be... fucked.
Some people today really dont understand the possible implications of what they write online and how easy it is to find.
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@Tonka Now you just need to learn the art of sub-tweeting, and the best methods of tweeting an underhanded attack on someone then deleting it shortly after.
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Tonka 31,979 posts
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Registered 18 years agoAha, subtweeting. I think that is what the other guy did. The public passive agressive shit that was clearly directed at me but without @ing me.
I was tempted to give him a .@ but I chose to see his cowardice as him accepting defeat.
So that was his line of defense? LAME! -
LockeTribal 4,740 posts
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Registered 14 years agoShamblemonkee's twitter account looks to have been taken over by a spammer. Is he still on here? -
elstoof 28,125 posts
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Registered 16 years agoStill can't figure out what Twitter is good for, but shouting #PARKLIFE every time Russell Brand posts anything seems as good a reason as any. -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agoGive #FoxNewsFacts a look .gif)
https://twitter.com/hashtag/foxnewsfacts
Here's the background for it
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I was about to make a shitty joke about Fox finding out that Birmingham is known as "The Black Country". Then I saw this and thought better of it:
Massive [link=https://twitter.com/hashtag/SenseOfHumorFailure?src=hash">#SenseOfHumorFailure at @FoxNews as @FoxNewsPress staffed with lawyers not geography graduates #FoxNewsFacts pic.twitter.com/vGYoZngQtV— Philip C James (@PhilipCJames) -
Don't think that account is legit. Look at the number of followers it has. -
X201 22,150 posts
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Registered 16 years agoMrTomFTW wrote:
I was about to make a shitty joke about Fox finding out that Birmingham is known as "The Black Country".
Ban please.
For this extremely insensitive and geographically incorrect remark,
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Hey, when you're working with 140 characters you occasionally have to take liberties 
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I find it's the celebrities that constantly spam their day to day activities.
Makes me wonder though if alot of people on facebook and twitter are compensating? Their partners forbid them from having friends that happen to be of the opposite sex thus, don't like the amount of texting, as and when they do to that innocent friend. The passwords are known and emotional blackmail... anyway, point made. -
ibenam 3,507 posts
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Registered 14 years ago#Twatter -
killersrquiet 3,192 posts
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Registered 9 years agoTwatter exists for twits to tweet about being twats. -
skuzzbag 5,950 posts
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Registered 17 years agoTried twitter for the fourth time.
Naaa. -
Twitter exists so people that don't use it can constantly complain about it. -
And that's why Twitter exists.
I like Twitter. It's a good source of information unlike Face-90% full of week old videos by twats for twats-book. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoMr-Brett wrote:
*clicks follow*
Twitter exists so people that don't use it can constantly complain about it. -
@Whizzo Prepare for disappointment.
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