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# I fucking hate Twitter
twatter.com

I fucking hate the concept and the meaningless drivel that comes out of it. And to the next twat who asks me if I 'tweet', fuck off, no I don't fucking tweet. Twat.

Good to get that off my chest. Back to lurking.
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:42, archived)
# hahahahahah! outstanding :D
nings everyone!

ha-ha! I should be in MK today for meetings but I *forgot* and got the train to Euston instead. Cor, I'm such a rebel!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:47, archived)
# Right on brother!

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:55, archived)
# power to the masses et al!
nings medi!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:22, archived)
# Hello you.
How are you getting on?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:58, archived)
# Nings PC !
doing fine thanks, just a bit rushed off my feet
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:23, archived)
# Mortal Kombat!
(I helped save b3ta! emvee cruor deo cruoris, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:08, archived)
# *pops up from corner of screen* TOASTY!
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:23, archived)
# hahahaha!
That's quite impressive

Ningles yerself!
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:10, archived)
# nings Joe! no doubt they'll get the teleconferencing stuff sorted and I'll STILL have to be in the meeting.
(I helped save b3ta! theoriginalsteve <this space intentionally left blank>, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:25, archived)
# Everyone should do this to avoid MK
(Mrs Trellis GIN, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:54, archived)
# twitter is a god aweful waste of time
i saw a shirt in the store today saying "follow me on twitter" i feel like if i really saw someone wearing that shirt i would put a stick in their spokes.
(I helped save b3ta! d d, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:48, archived)
# FFS - I would be overcome with the urge to headbutt such a twat
Twitter. It's like a perfect sphere. Completely pointless

There's people giving out business cards with this shit on it. "You can follow me on Twitter". No. Fuck off. I would get as much enjoyment from pulling out my fingernails. The only reason I would follow you would be in the hope I get to see you run over by a bus.
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:52, archived)
# What you are doing here is coming to a website
and giving out information on the most banal thoughts of your day. How many people really want to hear about your opinion on another website?

Your post is no different to tweeting, but it took longer to load and is on a board which is not for such blogging.

At least with idiots who tweet their opinions the audience is expecting it.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:00, archived)
# What you are doing is getting sand in your clitoris
because I've taken the piss out of something you like.
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:05, archived)
# No.
I am merely amused that you chose to post stuff about the fact that you hate people posting stuff.

Admittedly you did not tweet it.

Bleat springs to mind.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:07, archived)
# Please point out the bit
where I said I hate people posting stuff ...

I missed that bit. It would be a bit ironic to have that attitude and be on b3ta ....
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:26, archived)
# Who wants to go outside and play Frisbee?
(I helped save b3ta! Ttssattsr, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:29, archived)
# ooh, someone likes south park
... also, sand IN your clitoris?
(I helped save b3ta! yanmania... last shagged your mum on, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:42, archived)
# Our company...
sent out emails promoting their Twitter account... that we can only access at lunchtime
(I helped save b3ta! Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:11, archived)
# So you do not use it and thus it is shit?
I like twitter, but I do not understand the appeal of facebook.

I think that, just maybe, you are missing the point of twitter.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:51, archived)
# please explain to us the magic of www.twitter.com
(I helped save b3ta! d d, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:52, archived)
# There is no magic to it,
it is a convenient location for me and my friends to chat in an informal way.

We also use skype to chat in this manner, as a group, but twitter has the advantage that all my friends can be in the same chat and all their friends can too.

If I am talking to a friend then any mutual friends can see it, but people who do not know one or the other (or either) of us are not influenced.

I agree that 'I am making tea' blog style posts are toss, but it is more for @lordmanley style posts that I use it and it is a nice way to chat. Like facebook updates, but with aimed replies and none of the cack.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:56, archived)
# i guess maybe i dont know how to use it
i got bored with it too quickly though.

maybe i just need to have other friends on it.
(I helped save b3ta! d d, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:04, archived)
# Absolutely.
Many users collect followers and just put small updates on. I have 10 or so friends who I chat through during the day.

It is not for everyone, but it is a useful central location for communicating in a banal and meanigless way, without getting trapped like B3ta does to me ;¬)
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:06, archived)
# No
I don't use it because it's shit.

Big difference.

Facebook comes a close second.
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:54, archived)
# i think myspace is even worse than facebook
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:57, archived)
# I am afraid that I might have to just refer you to my last comment.
Certainly, I do not have any use for facebook, having flickr and email and a domain, but I understand that for others it is useful.

You not liking twitter does not make it 'shit'. It makes it shit for you and, frankly, you do not matter.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:58, archived)
# Quick!
Everyone stop making fun of things that someone likes!
(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:02, archived)
# ^this
shut down b3ta NOW!
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:04, archived)
# Jokes are fine, but he simply said:
"I fucking hate Twitter" . . . "I fucking hate the concept and the meaningless drivel that comes out of it. And to the next twat who asks me if I "tweet", fuck off, no I don't fucking tweet. Twat."

I feel that warranted a response.

Also, his joke was that twitter sounds a bit like twatter, which is very clever.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:05, archived)
# IMO Twitter is for self-important twats.
Does this make me a bad person?
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:06, archived)
# No.
If you decided to post on a discussion board that you thought it was for self-important twats then I would discuss this with you, but I would still not think it made you a bad person.

For the record, I think that it is for self important twats, but I am a self important twat, so it is ideal for me.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:13, archived)
# perfect match
(I helped save b3ta! inexpressible started a joke on, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:18, archived)
# me me me me me me
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:14, archived)
# This is not your blog

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:54, archived)
# Ps. I need to poo

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:55, archived)
# Then you want Manley's blog.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:12, archived)
#
www.stablesound.co.uk/mp3/notyourblog.mp3
(I helped save b3ta! Mystery_Bob, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:54, archived)
# YES

That is exactly what I was thinking of ;)
(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:56, archived)
# I still play that from time to time

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:57, archived)
# Like all of these shite 'social networking' sites I enlist
No idea why. i never use them and hate them ALL with a passion. But Twitter takes the fucking biscuit. 'Twitter', 'Tweet'.... I mean... c'mon.... who the fuck thought this up??!!

(And before anyone says 'bur B3TA is 'social networking' site. Not to ME it isn't!)
(I helped save b3ta! Flash_Bastard, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 8:55, archived)
# Bur B3TA is 'social networking' site.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:02, archived)
# www.b3ta.com is a funny joke website
this is a post not a status update
(I helped save b3ta! d d, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:06, archived)
# My post was not serious.
I copied his typo and responded.

Why is everyone so serious this morning?
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:14, archived)
# It warrent a typo
bur the above was
(I helped save b3ta! Flash_Bastard, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:16, archived)
# I remember when the whole blogging thing started out.
People described it - a web page that lets your update it with your thoughts and opinions - groundbreaking technology - it'll revolutionise the web.

Ah - so it's a web page that you can update then? Yeah, those have been around for quite a while now. The 'tweet' thing is just micro-blogging. It's the same old concept, but now with smaller updates. The people using it feel they ought to use it to express themselves using this 'new' technology, but as with any kind of media, only 99.9% have anything interesting to say. So it's stupid to blame website or the technology. Just blame everyone else for being so very dull.
(I helped save b3ta! wheelybird mreee!, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:11, archived)
# I absolutely agree.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:15, archived)
# Yeah I'd agree with that too
It's not so much that Twitter is shit, it's that a lot of people who use Twitter are dull. I have a twitter account I've blogged about 3 times and none for about 6 months and yet I still get people following me on Twitter which is amusing in of itself.
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:38, archived)
# an anti twitter post just turned into b3tans giving their status
fucking class
(I helped save b3ta! elbow, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:14, archived)
# I am currently sitting in bed eating M&S jaffa cakes and listening to Jimmy Edgar.
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:17, archived)
# i am currently drinking and smoking tobacco
(I helped save b3ta! elbow, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:22, archived)
# Oh, poor choice, sir!
(I helped save b3ta! Ghostwriter can't pick up his pencil, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:23, archived)
# I am currently drinking tea
and catching up on weekend email, before fighting some crime.
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:25, archived)
# no it didn't
(I helped save b3ta! Flash_Bastard, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:17, archived)
#
www.b3ta.com/board/9681119
(I helped save b3ta! elbow, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:25, archived)
# *logging off to make dinner and go to the pub*
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:18, archived)
# \just finished wanking.
Eww! My keyboard!
(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:20, archived)
# I just posted
on the B3TA site
(I helped save b3ta! Flash_Bastard, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:18, archived)
# I just replied to you.
on the B3TA site.
(Spleep Shit, or get off the internet., Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:23, archived)
# I can't belive it!
I think you're genuinely the first person to notice that by changing one letter in the title of that website you can make an amusingly rude parody name for it.

I have no time for Twitter, but your post should have been left as an image. Your accompanying text makes it look like you're trying too hard, like an aging stand-up who keeps saying "what's that about?"
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:23, archived)
# It was meant as irony
Someone complaining about meaningless drivel on the internet, posting meaningless drivel on the internet. Pfft.

Shalln't bother again then.

(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:31, archived)
# I'm doing the "itchy chin" motion
(I helped save b3ta! Mockingbird Practitioner of SCIENCE, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:49, archived)
# Haha

(I helped save b3ta! mediocre ha ha ha, you're reading this, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:59, archived)
# Hmmm
Is this like the 12 parsecs thing in Star Wars? Where Lucas writes something stupid, then comes up with an elaborate explanation of it later, suggesting that the Millenium Falcon is manoueverable enough to take an asteroid ridden shortcut?

Or, to put it less elaborately - no, you've just changed your mind and bluffed an excuse because you've misjudged a small but excessively vocal proportion of your audience. You'd have had more respect from me if you'd stuck your fingers in your ears and said "No, I still think it's rubbish and I had to tell everyone" and then blew a raspberry.
(sabre-tooth monkey, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:57, archived)
# If that is true then that is cool
but I call bullshit on the irony.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 10:36, archived)
# Well ...
I hope you didn't think that was a serious rant about twitter at the top ... I'm not that serious. Particularly on b3ta.

The hype around it and the "Ooh lok at me I'm doing something mundane" stuff is nauseating and I have no interest in it at all. Having said that .. pfft. I enjoy wasting plenty of time elsewhere.
(Las Tonterias with a hint of cervical mothballs, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 12:34, archived)
# It's an absolutely fantastic tool for people to share with the world something about how great they are
with no evidence to back it up whatsoever.

As a platform for philosophers to get thoughts across its brilliant, but sadly most people aren't offering anything other than how much of a shouty cunt they are.

It makes the idiot masses feel like they are something more than a waste of time and resources on this planets surface.
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:23, archived)
# I think you'll find your opinions mean shit round here
(I helped save b3ta! prodigy69 broke b3ta and made everyone leave, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:25, archived)
# to be fair
the same can be said about everyones
(I helped save b3ta! HappyToast Groat froth, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:26, archived)
# Yay I have an opinion \o/
(I helped save b3ta! maiden is filmed before a live studio audience, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:43, archived)
# It, like anything else, has its uses
If you actually subscribe to the tweets (there, I said it) of people within your peer group who actually have useful things to say about stuff (web developers, in my case) it can be a useful networking tool, and a way of keeping up with trends.

Otherwise, yes, it's full of meaningless drivel, but what isn't these days?
(I helped save b3ta! The Neville What what what, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:28, archived)
# I follow a goodly number of SEOs
and they keep me up to date on industry news.
(I helped save b3ta! LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Mon 7 Sep 2009, 9:40, archived)