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# 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)