Silly Season Officially Over – No More Twitter Stories
Please let the end of silly season signal the end of Twitter stories. In 2007 we had eBay stories, in 2008 it was Facebook this year it has been Twitter. Despite the hype, Guido thinks Twitter is a fad. Over the summer Guido tried to get into it. Updating trivia.
It might be a handy way of testing out rumours “has anyone heard?…”, but as a significant tool of communication it sucks compared to old-fashioned email.
Facebook lite is going to kill it anyway.
Thank god I never got to know what the f*ck it was, then.
Dack Blog – Just because Guido says it’s a silly fad, don’t make it so!
I disagree with Guido on this one. Twitter is a great innovation. The enforced brevity help makes everyone communicate succinctly and it’s only full of crap if the people you follow tweet crap. It’s as good as the people you choose to follow and what you make of it.
I don’t think we’ll be seeing the end of it any time soon.
Clue:
Labour have made Kerry McCarthy Twitter Tsar.
She’s thicker than Jo Brand’s ankles.
Why do Labour need a ‘Twitter Tsar” is it now sold on street corners or something out of little plastic bags?
agent 99
they need to spend our money on sumfink….no?
Not saying displaying IP numbers would be the perfect solution – but lots of other places do it. Much of the crap stops simply when it is made inconvenient – but gu1d0 lets this place be a total sewer…the guy is an uprincipled hypocrite. If he wants to cast dispersions on the reputations of others for not doing their best by his mottly standards then he ought to do HIS best (but he don’t duzz he?).
The charge was, in case you forgot, that he was using bots to post computer generated hate messages – if he has nothing to hide, why does he not display the IP numbers, imperfect though it may be – it WOULD confirm whether he is using bots and software programs for whatever nefarious purposes his twisted mind dreams up.
C’mon Gu1d0 – show us yer IP’s or shut your arse about other people you like to judge.
♣5p€d0♣5h0rt5♣ says: Why don’t you go infect someone elses blog. Its private property and if people didn’t like Guido’s style then there wouldn’t be any comments. Doh….
pedo have a refund anf fuck off
How can you be an unprincipled hypocrite – surely you can be one or the other but not both. Idiot.
I don’t have the time for it, even if I was interested. Nor facebook et al. On this and a couple of other sites is all I can muster. I can see some of this stuff can be useful – pictures of the grandkids etc – but too many see it as a licence to consider themselves fascinating.
Or amusing, which they’re even less likely to be.
Mark you facking labour Communist scumnbag, if can’t hack it on this blog, fuck off back to islamabad, you muslim terrorist Hoon.
If GF deems twitter shite, then that concurs with my thinking 100%.
I agree with you, Mark, and disagree with Guido. Twitter will go through ups and downs but will ultimately do well imho. Time will tell, I suppose.
It had better shape up fast then. As many are leaving as joining. Its the next innovation of it which will be the money maker.
In another year the current Twitter will seem as cumbersome and restrictive and antiquated as a Nokia 1100 brick phone, who’s only use today is to the Prime Minister.
If your Twitter is anything to go by, Tom, it’s doomed to failure.
and this on the day gmail is down
Kinda like the Lib-Dems…..
Eh?
No one ever got very enthusiastic about lib dems did they.
Lib Who?
Heh ! Here in Cornwall, everyone seemed to have thought the Lib-Dems had all the answers to all questions. and probably believe that the Sunshine’s the result of a previous Liberal Government from centuries past…..
Maybe I should have compared Twitter to the SDP from the early 80’s….
hoho.
It would be rude to remind our host of his youthful indiscretions.
Reply @ Arsely. (ie GF and SDP indescretions)
I was myself a lifelong member of the SDP (the lifetime of the party itself that is hehe….) so the Good Guido is not alone in his indiscretions….
I wonder if someone high up in the BBC has/had shares in Twitter, due to the amount of massive hype on their organ about it.
If it allows them to waste time and money at our expense it’s a winner as far as they are concerned
I saw a Bentley Continental outside the local curry house the other night (which is just down the road from some NHS office), the reg plate on the car was “NHS X” (x was a number). make of it what you will.
Eric Nerny- Pah. That’s nothing; they use helicopters for ambulances where I live.
The driver of the said Bentley was there to pick up a curry.
I have seen this car, the person parking said it was not a company car when I asked, just his Dad’s initials
With initials like that, you think you would change your name pretty quickly.
Yep – just my sons car
Nah – they just can’t see a bandwagon without jumping on it, trying to be trendy. Climate change, global warming, swine flu, bird flu – you name it. None of them are capable of thinking for themselves, they just follow the herd.
They follow the one-eyed man – they’re blind sheep.
If they have shares in Twitter they are likely to lose their money, because nobody has yet found a way to make a profit out of social networking systems.
BBC’s new Twitter-compliant motto: “Nation shall babble unto Nation”.
“they are likely to lose their money”
Their money?
Shome mishtake, shurely
But all the cabinet are into twattering so it must be good.
Or perhaps you have to be a Twit to twitter and a twat to twatter.
Rubbish, the cabinet know more of the back of their hands than they do about how to use a computer. They got some 16 year old freebie trainee New Labour wannabe to type some rubbish into Twitter.
I thought that Twatter was going to be facebook lites new name to compete with Twitter and due to the fact it clearly describes their main user base, twats who post far too much of their personal details on the net.
Twatter.
Didn’t Al Gore invent it after he did the internet?
Those Liberal Nazis are really talented.
Vote English Democrat for small Government & an end to PC madness on English soil.
The internets was invented at The Ntional Phychics Laboratory in Teddington
“Didn’t Al Gore invent it after he did the internet?”
Was that before or after he invented Global warming?
It is a well known fact that early Arab cultures invented a primitive form of the Internet using goat testicles and a coke can.
The concept became known as String Theory. TA _DA!!!
When repeated by Rutherford in his lab it became Super-String theory.
The clue is in the first four letters.
Jebb=Breasts?
No, Ivor=Wanker.
Ok if you say so funny wuzzie
Twitter is a broadcast model, not a two-way communication system. It’s great at what it’s for – microblogging – but people keep confusing it with something else.
It’s here to stay (unless it goes bankrupt) though the media will bore of it eventually.
This is about right.
Its a good system for arbitrary light broadcast networks.
Now facebook is something far more worrying – surprised to see any Libertarian go near it.
Please wake me up when the post office starts delivering letters again.
Yeah, WTF is going on?
Are the Labour Party funding Communication “Workers” Union out on strike again?
Na. The Communications Strikers Union will be out of work shortly.
Send them an email and ask them….
what does twitter say about it?
The PEOPLE’S Post Office, please !
Guido- I agree with you. ‘Never got into twittering and how do people have the time for that when working? Facebook is the only alternative to email and with better wifi coverage those who ain’t working will be able to enjoy tv or live news and blogging proper,instead of twittering. Noky’s new palm sized pc Booklet is out tomorrow for instance.
Portsmouth taxpayers have just learned that 4,500 local council employees are logging onto Facebook up to 270,000 times a month. No doubt they have a Facebook outreach co-ordinator on a salary of £100,000+.
Glad to hear that they are busy looking after their community.
Surely it wouldn’t be that difficult to block access to it – or would that breach their ‘ooman rights? No calculator handy but that is a heck of a lot of wasted time. Bet the Portsmouth taxpayers are mightily impressed. And why does a town (sorry, city) the size of Portsmouth need 4,500 council staff? (Answer – because they waste so much time on Facebook!)
Given that the fuckers are on the payroll then it’s probably better they spend their time on facebook rather than hitting the streets and tying up the folk of Portsmouth with even more paperwork to justify their worthless fucking existence.
…..or jamming the switchboards with phone calls to family and friends….
It’s a bloody disgrace. Ooops gotta go I need to pass another bandage to the orthodontist
Halve the wages and tell them they’ve obviously got part-time jobs, but they are allowed to use the firm’s computers in the afto’. So long as they get their actual work done by lunchtime, they are allowed to log on at the office and use it as a liesure facility thereafter. They get to twitter to their hearts’ content, we get the work done and the wage bill cut.
Twittering must be shite…Mrs Brown does it……..Nuff said.
I read with interest this morning that the UK public has decided that the best way to get out of debt is to pay off your borrowings. For the first time since records began, private debt has fallen as homeowners chuck whatever they can muster at the mortgage, pay back last years splurge on the 42″ plasma and cook a meal from ingredients in their own homes. Before they lose their jobs probably.
Gordon won’t like this at all. His current mantra is that the Government want to spend even more of your money to somehow borrow the UK’s way out debt. It would appear meanwhile that the public are doing the exact opposite of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Gordon needs us in debt. Labour must create poverty to create voters. The last thing they want is an austere electorate watchful of the pennies whilst big government throws the pounds around.
So, bribing the banks with trillions, pouring revenue from the State down the drain and throwing our money at anything and everything is not going to be a vote winner at all.
I do hope nobody tells Labour. The stupid fucking Hoons. Pay off your debts and fuck them hard
‘I do hope nobody tells Labour. The stupid fucking Hoons. Pay off your debts and fuck them hard’ – err….can I just pay off my debt and leave the other bit? Just had lunch – would jeaopardize my keyboard.
as ever the Yanks are one step ahead – on the road to penury. Their debt paying-off rather than debt accruing turnaround came earlier, Jan/Feb 2009 time. According to ‘Ticker Guy’ at marketticker.com they’ve now reduced their debt load by 3%, compared to 0.04% so far in UK.
Agreed, this is mortal to the scum pols and their banker string-pullers. Which is way they need troop surges in their Wars of Terror and talk of recovery to lull the saps to start spending again – before they cash in and crash it fully.
Mortgage paid off, no debts.
Fuck ‘em.
Yeah – me too.
Me three.
I retired in 2001 aged 35 and my missus is pulling the pin in the next 18 months. She’ll be 45 then.
Do you see that 51p tax rate Brown/Cameron? Do you see it? Well you can take it and stick it up your fucking arse.
Fuck ‘em. To hell.
With you there jgm2. Just a small correction: the McDoom inspired revenge tax on successful people is 61p in the pound, not 51p (remember the disgusting intention of withdrawing personal allowances for anyone earning over £100k pa, in addition to the direct tax increase).
I think that counts as State-sanctioned theft (with menaces) of the most disgusting kind.
Ed Balls Twitters. Absolute confirmation that it is an aresholes’ hobby.
It is nothing more than a glorified news aggregator.
Easy on the news!
You sound like a Sun editor when you say that
Twitter is pants.
I can proudly say that I’ve purposefully avoided both Facebook and Twitter (and don’t use Ebay much since evil PayPal has ruined it).
16. Iam with you on that.Paypal is the Pitt’s
Some argue that it was EvilBay that ruined PayPal after they bought it and turned it inot a Zombie.
“Old fashioned email…?????????”
Some of us are still trying to use paper and pen
parchment and quill etc etc
I received some mail today, it has taken some time to get here, I think the pigeon was slowed down a bit by the stone tablet, also all the advertising parchments didn’t help either.
Prithee good sir, doest thou not have a galloper at hand?
I prefer to light the watchfires myself.
Twitter is for needy attention seeking narcissists and the trivia obsessed dullards who have nothing better to do than follow them.
Its a useless fad that will be forgotten about by this time next year, replaced by the next overhyped gimmick that nobody actually needs.
Splendid summary G, spot on. Trivia for trivial minds.
Yes, spot on G. The only creatures that should be twittering are the birds. Who the hell wants to hear the inane minute by minute dribblings of the likes of Stephen big head ‘ I’m a national treasure’ Fry?
Fnarr, fnarr, you said G spot.
I just don’t get my head round it – is it wrong to just text yer mates? Boozer? 7 characters all in exactly the right place and expressing a valued intention.
“Its a useless fad that will be forgotten about by this time next year”
You could be talking about our Dear Leader there.
twitter is for twats
Nicely put
Sitting at my desk.
Might have a cup of coffee soon.
I seem to remember when the internet really got going and you could start using the web cams one of the most hit sites was a coffee pot in an office smoking room. Thats all it showed a coffee pot getting steadily emptier.
mmmmmmmmm……
I thought tit box cameras were eariler?
Just made a phone call.
RB here, can I help you?
Yes. Make him a cup of coffee!
Breathed in.
Vibrating knickers ON
Moved mouse
Shikes. Sat at your desk, thought about getting a cup of coffee and made a phone call. If you work for my local council you must be exhausted by now.
Breathed out.
Big breaths there bfc
Thought about moving mouse again
Looking out of window and juggling my bollocks
BBC Pravda HYS on Afghanistan – below is the top post.
“”Pity he did’nt travel to us in a landrover!!! No one here in the military,trust or believe anything that horrible man says!!! he is a waste of rations!
Capt Lewis, Sangin
Recommended by 145 people “”
Unusual for Pravda HYS to allow any dissent from the dear leaders “vision”.
Well done for grabbing a copy before the HYS entry is ‘rectified’.
Apparently the graffitti in the toilets at Camp Bastion says ‘dropped a Gordon here’ Ho Ho
No Twitter… what the hell is Steven Fry gonna do then? I think he was hoping to write a book/do a BBC sponsored TV serial/both about how much boring shit you can pile on other peoples equipment.
Twitter is a solution looking for a problem, and it’s only found boring twats!
Did you watch the Blackadder tribute programme? It showed a reclining Fry getting his feet massaged by what appeared to be very young South African chaps. At one point he beckoned over the vista to mention that Christopher Biggins owned a property in the next valley. Nope, nothing dodgy at all, nothing to see, step away from the inference etc etc. Disgusting individual.
It is so juvenile
christ groucho go for a pint :)
I will tweet from the pub, to keep you informed of my every move, no matter how trivial.
I will regularly give you my breathing updates.
Give us your jam-rag updates, too.
Lift mouse. Lower mouse.
Shit, I just signed up to it yesterday.
Oh well, behind the fucking curve again.
This brought a tear to my eyes.
“01 September 2009 9:51 AM
Blairs suffer rare reversal of fortune
It’s just as well the Blairs are minting it with their memoirs and international careers, as…the property has probably lost about 23 per cent of its value since the market peak in 2007.”
http://londonersdiary.standard.co.uk/
and a few howls of laughter were heard from the bunker.
it couldn’t happen to nicer people, not that they’re nice, but you know what i mean – come on, back to work!!
Hooray, first good news I’ve heard for ages, said he couldn’t run a piss up in a brewery. Vindictive, aren’t I?
Shardenfreude* is the word you’re looking for to describe how your feeling.
* Hope I spelt it correctly.
Schadenfreude
But the feeling is still the same and most pleasant as well
Never mind a 23% loss. I’d like to see the greedy sod bankrupt.
Guido
O/T
But have you seen the articles in today’s Daily Mail about power shortages
Zanulabour have been in power for 12 years and are now leaving Britain (through their inaction and grotesque incompetence) with an expected cut of 37% in generating capacity by 2015…
Another Nulabour national disgrace…
And hardly the time to build replacement capacity by then…
Energy is so fundamental to any economy that it is hard to believe thet the “lights will be going out” in a few years time thanks to Blair/Brown/Mandelscum
WTF do these people think they are doing (or not doing) ???
It’s not just that there’s hardly time to build replacement capacity by then, but that the only replacement capacity we could build in time would be either gas (OK if we keep the Libyans / Russians sweet) or coal (which we’ve destroyed as an industry through short-sightedness and anti-union bias).
Both options also have the problem of being anathema to the climate change proponents who still dominate in defiance of all common sense and good science.
There’s just no way that the sensible option (nuclear) can be delivered on time, because idiots still believe it to be too risky.
Basically, unless someone figures out a new way to generate power that we can build rapidly, we’ll be back to the three-day week.
Thankyou, New Liebour scum – a new Dark Ages dawns (dusks?) because of your incompetence and stupidity.
They can’t even build large storage units for gas, which is one of the reasons (apart from relentless greed) that we pay so much more for gas than everyone else in Europe.
M15 its quite simple really
1) Mandlescum and co won’t be in power (pardon the pun) then so they don’t give a shit its all about votes now
2) There is no money to build anything as Labour have spent it all in fact they spent so much my grandchildren will still be paying in their first jobs.
3) Labour only build pathetic eyesore windmills to show their green credentials and then have no idea when the wind is going to blow so still have to retain / build coal /oil / gas fire back ups just in case.
4) Labour do not build underwater hydro power stations because they cant be seen you see. At the vicinity of such stations we can calculate almost to the second the speed direction and times of stop and start of the waterflow anywhere on the planet pretty much. (Trust me I do it daily)
5) Water always flows at these chosen locations
Labour = Cocking it up and putting off the difficult decisions in all areas until some other person has to make them. Then they can carp from the sidelines. How very apt from a party led by a man who has less courage and spine than a Jellyfish.
Hopefully they will be absolutely slaughtered at the next election.
Let us release a few prisoners early…. let’s see.. who’s got energy to spare… Oi Francoise.. you’re next.. you got any spare kilowatts gov?
We’ll just buy electricity from the French, won’t we? France, a country where the engineer is more valued than the lifestyle guru.
Bloke at Carphone Warehouse recommended it to me only yesterday as a method of staying in touch with home while abroad. M’m think I’ll wait & see whether it continiues.
Skype is much better. With a web-cam you can see the people you’re talking to. Nice for us – we can see our grandchildren.
What’s wrong with ringing them up?
Yeah. With these cheap access telephone numbers you can phone practically the entire planet for about 1p a minute and unlike Skype you don’t have to frig about uploading shit onto your computer.
It takes 2 minutes to get Skype onto your PC, and it’s absolutely free. If ther person you are ringing has Skype, it costs nothing, no matter where in the world they live.
There is no rental (apart from your normal broadband fees) and it works. What could be better than that.
Skype is CRAP
Not enough people agree.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/technology/article6816769.ece
carphone warehouse is/are crap
Remind me, what was the whole big deal with Twitter anyway?
Obama apparently uses it and I’ve been told to give it a go and have done so but… remind me: what is the fucking point?
Hi, right now I’m having a shit… Now I’m wiping my arse… Now I’m walking back to my desk… Now I’m talking through my arse… and on it goes…
Bit like hearing people talking on mobile ‘phones in the supermarket.
Ah! That reminds me! Got to get some cat food on the way back from the office, this evening! Thanks for that, Shelling-out!
Or in the next toilet cubicle. I purposely break wind as loudly as anatomically possible to put them off their conversation
A lengthy groan of relief after a particularly prolonged and resonant fart adds immensely to the effect. Anybody with a normal sense of humour will be helpless with laughter for at least five minutes.
Brewing the wherewithall for the fart can take a while, though, and timing is all.
G, you do realise that that can lead to The Ultimate Follow Through, or TUFL for short?
“Oh God, I’ve TUFLd…half my guts are in the U bend…”
On the plus side, the feeling of confidence and well-being after a clear-out of those proportions can last all afternoon.
44. Twitter on the Shitter. Lol
Twitter, on the shitter,
On the shitter, that’s where I’ll be.
Come twitter on the shitter with me.
I tried Twitter, too. Never could quite get into it.
Two twits don’t always make a twat.
They do in most cases.
Not much point, although those scrotes draper & mcbride, will probably find a way to fuck up and embarrass nulab with it, so some good might come from it !
Just had the morning post (This afternoon) and there is an offer in the mail to purchase the new £5 COIN. Apparently it has Henry the V111 th on the reverse side. That should impress Harriet.
First I had heard of a £5 pound coin but still even the Euro has a 5 euro note.
Buy it! It should be worth about 2 euro in a few months ;-)
And the scrap metal value is easily worth 70p.
The coins are worthless in more ways than one.
I discovered that our “bronze” coinage is highly magnetic.
That makes it very attractive
Even the Zimbabwean dollar has rallied against the pound. Not good.
Does it mention the value of the coin on the coin itself?
All the new “designs” with the weird shield jigsaw don’t actually display the monetary value of the coin in numerics.
eg it says:
five pence
but it doesn’t have the numeral “5″ anywhere.
It fucks up tourists something chronic, and it’s making trying to teach our kids what the coins’ values are a fucking nightmare.
If anyone at the mint is reading this:
***PUT THE FUCKING NUMBERS BACK ON THE COINS YOU STUPID FUCKING WANKERS***
I’m surprised it’s legal; surely all coins/notes should have the numeric value on them somewhere?
I’ve never seen any coins or notes anywhere else which don’t have an actual numeric on them.
Are we the first in the world to say “hey, look at our coins; we don’t tell you how much they’re worth unless you know what these words in our language mean: one, two, five, ten, twenty, fifty. want to know how much our coins are worth? learn our language then.”
tossers
If it screws tourists – GOOD – they should learn English. (In fact the whole world should speak English. Bloody foreigners expect US to learn their stupid languages, why should we?)
If native English speakers can’t read the word “Five” perhaps they should be screwed too.
I wouldn’t mind so much if the number-in-words was in a bigger size, but it’s tiny and hard to find/read even when english is your first/only language.
How come they can pass laws in the EU to force us to have straight bananas, but they can’t force us to put monetary values on our fucking coins?
I don’t like the EU, but if they’re going to be useful then this is one example where they should have stepped in and said to the government/mint “that’s illegal tender you fucking twats. put the numbers on it.”
I simply don’t understand how it ever could have got minted that way; didn’t anyone at any stage simply say “eh? there’s no numbers on the coins then?”
Yeah – the euro has a 500 euro note, but no bugger will accept it in payment!
It is for the drugs trade, easier to move vast amounts of cash than ever before
There’s a recent study that says that it is not youngsters using twitter, but older folks. Watching the Ashes on sky recently, Bumbles, the nickname of a commentator called ’something’ Lloyd, and an aging cricketer, couldn’t stop talking about people twitting to him. It was embarrasing to hear him keep on and on about ’someone has just twitted and said …..’. I thought he was going to climax any moment.
like I said, confidentially, I always knew you Poms and reject Saffers were a bunch of Twats.
“I thought he was going to climax any moment.”
Perhaps he did if he saw Freddy’s run-out shot!
twitter more or less replaced my rss reader. Just to let you know. I’m sure, Guido that your updates will continue to appear on twitter?
Until it goes bust or whatever.
here’s something silly
just back from Edinburgh. had a walk around the town. found Bank Street which leads you toward the ROyal Bank of Scotland (THe People/taxpayers). On left hand side walking towards the Bank is a shop – Goodwins, Silver and Jewel merchants!!! – you couldn’t make this stuff up!!
Why the fuck would you?
Facking idiots. Goodwins should have been a betting shop-but there was a bank there already
“Guido thinks Twitter is a fad.”
Whereas Guido is part of the enduring bedrock of British culture.
Apropos of which, does anyone else see the logical error in one of the ads appearing herewith, “Bet against each other for bigger wins”? Clue: for every winner, there is a loser.
Twitter is a fad, it’s pathetic. Guido’s blog, and many others, are not a fad in the sense that any people take them very seriously. More seriously than they should really.
Twatter this BBC:
manufacturing in UK falls further into depression whilst Germany and France’s industrial output stabilises; German unemployment in August surprises with negligible increase; Jag Land/Rover makes £110m loss in 3 months, after sales fall by half, year on year; owners Tata reported to be considering further job cuts and possible removal of production lines to India; Nissan moving Micra production to India; Toyota considering closing production line at Derbyshire plant; and on and on.
Whilst you twatter on and free promote Jobs’ ipods and iphones, eBay this, Facebook that, Googles’ this that and the other, mostly based in Israel, real UK industry is dire and getting worse. If you want to be the broadcaster for International Marxism and its bankster bankers and not British interests fuck off to Tel Aviv or Mumbai.
Industry is more than a bit fucked, many large companies have used all their credit line, liquidated all their stock, gained 45 days credit from the supply chain below them and now have nowhere else to go, yet still have the relentless NI payments for employees they cannot afford to make redundant
Whilst the value of our money declines, we import more and more of our food. George Alagiah last night on Pravda re-educating any viewers to believe this can only get worse FFS. Pravda re-education programs alarmingly dangerous. Food imports risen massively under ZanuLabour, how much of our money goes abroad, imports, aid, foreign electrical companies
That’s what we get for not having any British owned major manufacturers anymore. They can just up sticks and move to China/India/Poland without any trouble.
The cash for clunkers scheme also helped France and Germany a lot more because, guess what, French mostly buy French cars, Germans mostly buy German cars. We, on the other hand, mostly bought cheap Korean cars.
Hardly any of the posts on Twitter say, “I’m having a wank,” which is obviously what they’re doing.
Is there a ‘hands free’ accessory?
If there isn’t, there should be.
Well I’ll be blowed… there is!
Everyone is finding out the perils of first response without checking your sources (ask Nicholas Watts).
Twitter will just catch you out. So many “indignants” have recently railed against Starbucks for not giving some coffee to Sgt Wright of the “British” Royal Marines. It was a complete hoax coming out of a misunderstanding US Marine, Sgt Howard C Wright in May 2004 who was quickly put right by Starbucks.
I makes all the idiots who blindly pass on falsehoods look like idiots, MP’s included.
Twitter will remain the preserve of SpAd’s, media whores and spin doctors because the message is the point, not the truth
If folk are boycotting Starbucks for any reason then it can only be a good thing. This recession will go on and this country will continue its rendezvous with the economic shitter as long as Starbucks remains in business.
For while Starbucks remains in business there are still too may people with no economic sense whatsoever who consider it perfectly normal to queue for five minutes of their precious lunch break to buy a three quid cup of coffee. Three quid! For a cup of coffee in a cardboard carry-out cup.
Mental.
and requires no intelligence to construct a short message -also offers little scope for debate…….socialist heaven.
Twitter is just part of the infantilisation of people, along with Pot Noodles and other baby food, baby clothes for adults and everything shown in big pictures rather than words. You can babble away on Twitter as long as it takes less than 140 characters now Im having breakfast what about Peter Andres new piercing that Gordon Brown eh what a hoon lets hashtag beer see what we get babble babble gibber gibber…..
I love it! Because I’m going to start a cult/movement, sort of like a modern-day Trappist community. The concept is still a bit hazy, but the basic philosophy is “shut the fuck up” – if you don’t have something interesting, amusing, or useful to say.
My devotees will learn the advanced art of sitting still and doing nothing for, oh, minutes at a time. When they are ready, they will move on to much more advanced skills like not turning an electrical device on when they enter a room (“what do you mean you don’t have a television????”)
Seriously, I think it’s an age thing. The twitter generation have never been told to sit down and shut up while adults are speaking. It’s led to an overstimulated generation of narcissists who think their little electronic poos (clever baby!) are of interest to everyone.
Sigh……
I’ve never really understood how twitter can become a general tool, because it doesn’t really relate to “conversations”, it just relates to “here’s what I’m doing”, it’s essentially a one-way “communication” tool, and a one-way “communication” tool doesn’t allow communication, it doesn’t really serve any useful purpose that standard text messaging doesn’t already do (and text messaging is more flexible).
I signed up to it for my business to see what it was all about, but after a while I realised it was just completely pointless; we’d use our email list instead to let people know what we’re doing as a business.
There are a few niche instances where it might be useful/relevant but for the most part it serves no use at all.
Blogs/emails/text-messages/website-content, and skype/msn/yahoo chat; all these things supercede twitter and make it essentially pointless.
As far as I can see, it’s only really being used by journalists and politicians and celebs who want to pretend that they’re “in with the kids”.
I wanted to twitter that the welovethenhs tag was bullshit and missed the whole point of the subject in question, but you can’t add feedback like that in the same way that you can on blogs etc. It’s like thousands of people saying “I’m in the toilet” without you having the ability to say back “I don’t fucking care.”
It is, quite simply, just a load of bollocks.
It’s used by people who like to blow their own trumpet! Oh.. hang on a minute..
too many twits make a hoon
Hi everyone, I’m typing on guido whilst drinking a coke zero.
Try not to buy American please
There’s still nothing to beat clay tablets and some wedges.
Bake them well and they last thousands of years.
If a fat, ugly, poofter like Stephen Fry is a ***STAR*** on Twitter it tells you all you need to know.
What is this twitter that everyone is on about?
Can I mend it by hitting it with a hammer?
Yes, that should sort it out
If you’re in the mood to go around hitting things with your hammer, can I point you in the direction of The Bunker?
Hello, where are you
I’m leaving Khartoum by the light of the moon
I’m sailing by night and by day
Singing: Shire, Shire, Somersetshire
Her skipper looks on her with pride
He’d have a blue fit
If he saw all the shit
Down the side of the Somersetshire.
Here.
Where are you?
Can’t see the point of these ’social networking’ sites personally.
I did sign up to facebook some time ago..and got so bored that I haven’t touched it for over a year. As you guys say,there’s only so much “God I’ve got a bad hangover”..”I’ve got the shits”….”I fancied this bit of stuff in the pub last night” crap that I could take.Twitters just the bloody same..isn’t it?
Actually,I feel the same about texting…if you need to talk to someone,just bloody well call them.
I think that these fads are something to do with anonymity…people feel ’stronger’ when the immediate and personal response of a conversation is absent.
Come to think of it..same could be said of sites like this!!
Sounds like me and ‘Friends Reunited’. Cool, I’ll just see how everybody from school is. So you go to the website. the only ones posting are the ones who have ‘made it’ – half of them by the simple expedient of leaving the shit council estate they grew up in and emigrating to Australia. The rest of them want to tell how wonderful their fucking kids are.
I posted a spoof biography of myself to make everybody else feel good. You know,
‘Living with my long-term Fillipina girlfriend, ten years in prison for a variety of drug offenses, two kids – Clamydia and Allopicia – neither of them mine but lovely kids. Working nights at an NCP carpark and occasional days window-cleaning etc etc.’
All this from the finest grammar school in the country. Back when it was possible to fail an ‘O’ level or ‘A’ level.
In the end though you realise why you never kept in touch with these people in the first place (and they with you to be fair) and since it was an all boys school its not like you’re likely to be engineering a meeting with an old girlfriend and pin a tail on her for old times sake.
Facebook? Bunch of arse.
LOL
Oy JGM – you weren’t a denizen of Old Hall Lane too were you?
Platt Fields in the sunshine, smoking a bit of draw round the back of Manchester High…
‘Cause if you weren’t, you didn’t go to the best grammar school in the country ;o)
Bri.
I like texts. no small talk. straight to the point.
“We’re late. sorry. arrive at 1500″+ “we’ll leave all the additional information about why and who’s fault it was, and whether we are ‘OK’ and what the weather is like, and all sorts of other things until we arrive, and then we can chat about it at length, and not bother with all the stuff about what the traffic’s like coz we won’t care any more.”
twitter seems to be about vanity. Calling the unfortunate recipients of your mental jizz “followers” is no accident.
Twitter designed for, and used by, twits
Things are looking worse for Gordon “Mother Courage” Brown. Twit THAT, Jimmy Brown!
Incidentally, does Brown twitter?
Hello Sarah I’m in the desert standing with my army its a bit too hot for my ankles but i’m coming home soon anyway. Gordon (your Husband and your prime Minister X
Or Twats. Oops type there….no hang on, not really.
Brown doesn’t twitter. He babbles.
He occasionally tubes ewes.
I can see your point about twitter, but I do think that some form of what they call ‘micro-blogging’ will always have a part to play in the media from now on.
The twitpic thing is especially useful to the mainstream media, as 24 hour news often struggles for visuals to go with a story. As you know, the thing about blogging and micro-bloggins is it doesn’t cost anything and it’s possible to do it instantly and for free, in a way that you couldn’t do ten years ago. Now stories are as often ‘broken’ on twitter as they were a year ago in the blogosphere.
But they’re not “news stories” – they’re wank.
I can see the point up to a point – if you are in an isolated location or need to be posting discreetly, then okay, posting via sms makes a bit of sense. But otherwise, it’s technomistique and vanity.
And the idea that a 24hr news media needs twitter for *content* – kerrrrrrist; there are a billion and one interesting subjects in the world; what the media need to do is stop playing follow my fucking leader all the time, and follow *original* avenues, *original* angles. Y’know, *think*. You don’t need empty-headed visuals to accompany everything – particularly not if that subject is interesting in itself.
I disagree Guido – it’s all about who you follow and given you only follow one person I don’t think you’re going to get anything out of it.
The one and only sensible article that the Maily Telegraph’s pet moron Bryony Gordon ever wrote was about the ephemeral nature of Twatter.
PS I thought the eBay stories were all in 2002, not 2007. Do they come back round, like a comet on a short orbit? We’re about due a new load of articles about blogging..
You’re joking, aren’t you?
Farcebook is full of prats with overinflated egos….
(kinda explains why you like it, then)
Twitter is for poofs and weirdos.
Twitter is for wankers.
I don’t understand twitter or facebook. My daughter says that they are for nosey people…
However, I do understand email and making the odd comment on blog postings.
That’s quite enough for me. I’m retired and the last thing I want to do is spend my remaining years glued to a bloody PC reading the meanderings of idiots who have nothing else to do with their time.
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