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"Twitter is for old people"
KharBevNor:
I have a twitter. I used it for a whole evening before the novelty wore out.
loco_banana:
--- Quote from: Misconception on 14 Jul 2009, 09:39 ---Oddly enough it's the other way around in my family. I have embarrassed my mother far more often than she has embarrassed me. i.e. the time we went shopping and I spoke to her in a fake hoity-toity English accent the whole time we were in the store. (I am a great kid.)
--- End quote ---
You win.
But on the article, it does seem overly-specific. I hopped on xbox live to take a poll, and just about everyone I met on Halo 3 [land of the 15-year old] said they use their mobile phones as stereos, text-message machines, and phones. Twitter is quite popular, but Facebook moreso. Also, the LG Dare is 'the shit'. I better get back to the field for more polls and teabagging.
pwhodges:
Twitter is used by old people (over 22, say) for near-live reporting and commentary during conferences. Also (through the mobile phone access) the university computer service uses it to report on major outages - like the UPS failure last week that took down their main computer room, all the backbone routers (hence no conventional way to report on the problem!), and the edge router.
Emaline:
I like twitter. I use it pretty frequently, more to read than to actually post. I follow Rachel Maddow, Obama, and NPR, so I got my important news covered, and then I follow Amanda Palmer, Neil Gaiman, Zoe Keating, and a few other musicians/authors, and they either just give me interesting tidbits, or in the case of both AFP and Zoe Keating, they post about artists rights, and how to interact with fans sans record labels, and stuff like that, like independent business models, and whatnot. Its really really interesting.
I thought it was really stupid, and then I joined, and I realized how great it was. Facebook and myspace not so much. They were dumb before I joined, and still dumb once I did.
And I'm 21. So I guess a 15 year old would probably think I was old.
StaedlerMars:
I had no idea Obama had a twitter, makes sense now that I think about it.
It's a shame it doesn't make any money (twitter) and that there isn't really any potential for money making.
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