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So where did you find the bottlecap?!

Can't leave something like that unanswered!

bottlecap?

found it on top of...

a bottle...

People who say twitter is about mundane things like "had a poo" have obviously never even looked at twitter

kolm wrote:People who say twitter is about mundane things like "had a poo" have obviously never even looked at twitter

well, thats not true...

i had a twitter account, used it, and unless I'm following a celebrity about their business - thats exactly what it is...you just have to substitute poo for other items/objects/things...

you have to follow someone of interest, who has an unusual job, or knowledge base to get anything "out of it" - the rest of it is tripe in my opinion...

and thats cos the majority of people, myself included, are just average every day folk...

hugh laurie summed it up nicely...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8069900.stm

I agree, it is rubbish if you are just following random people. But like Iain said, someone with a good knowledge base or an unusual job are often pretty interesting people to follow on Twitter. Someone like Katie Price, she is just fascinating

kolm wrote:People who say twitter is about mundane things like "had a poo" have obviously never even looked at twitter

I looked at it, wondered what all the fuss was about and went somewhere more interesting online, like Fark (awesome!). Honestly, unless you're famous or seriously anal about "networking", then Twitter is incredibly dull and boring. I'm with Hugh Laurie. There's really little point to Twitter other than the banal. People use it to hang from the shirt tails of some celeb while they have a poo and tell you all about it in 140 characters. I can't really think of any celebrity I'm that interested in.

Not to mention the faintly disturbing idea of sharing with the world where you are and what you're doing 24/7. I like my privacy too much.

Maybe I'm just old and cynical and that's why I don't understand Twitter. Actually, I'm willing to bet I'm outside their target demographic!

Whatever floats yer boat

Some of us net citizens may remember the "blogging" revolution.

Do we remember the debates? Is a blog a valid news tool etc etc.

What a blog did for me was discover which of my friends are idiot. I suspect that twitter will have the same value.

Allow me to explain blogs came out and everyone started "blogging" I didn't simply because I have tons to say but most of it is tripe and not worth keeping. At any rate I would poke my friends occasionally through IM or email or even over the phone and I would say.

"Hello, whats up?"

They would reply with,

"I'm sick of telling everyone about my day just read my blog."

The definition of social networking was apparently to stop being social. I mean if people can't even be bothered to interact with me anymore exactly how are they my friends?

What's worse is that people started to feel like they were artificially important. That somehow because two or three people would read their blog obviously it was something akin to Shakespeare. Everyone should be aware of the great blog and you are either helping the great blog or stopping them from encountering something worth blogging about.

In the end I simply started not reading blogs and posting weird blog replies to people, "I stole your cat. Dinner at 7pm."

I suspect that would work even better over twitter.

Finally to Hugh's point in the article, "For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn."

--Infy