Tweety Birds, Say Hello to Sylvester

[dotinthesky]

via vilia64

What's your opinion on Twitter? Do you read them on your friends' list? Do you like using it? What's the point? (That's what I'd like to know.)

Comments

[vivnsect.livejournal.com]

I used to hate Twitter with fiery passion until...I started using Facebook and fell in love with the status updates. I then started idly reading a friend's Twitter and the people she was following and I got sucked in. It's a fast way to just blurt what's on your mind very fast and keep a record of your stream of consciousness ramblings. It's less commitment than blogging which is why I think people are attracted to it.

Someone on my friend's list here just actually posted an entire LJ post about Twitter which I found interesting:

http://nubbytwiglet.com/blog/?p=367

The funny thing is months ago I was Facebook and Twitter-phobic and now I am all for both of them. Don't even start me on Plurk which I just also found out about. Ack!

[commonpeople.livejournal.com]

The only twitters I've seen so far are from people who blogged before (and who still do). In comparison to their longer posts, their twitters fall short. Gone is the humor, the insights, the interesting links. I'm left with disjointed sentences that tell me nothing more than "i clipped my toe nails" or "i drank a glass of orange juice."

Someone created a twitter for a somewhat famous, closeted, brasilian actor, and that one is quite funny because each line is a classic closeted gay male statement - so I can see the point in that. But for everyone else, I think the twitters never seem to go beyond the banal.