Sure, but we didn't pretend to do something useful, when writing them.
So your remark doesn't prove that that tweety thingy is good for anything useful.
:lol:

Yet you were purposefully denigrating Twitter as being the place to say 'I'm taking a poop now' and absolutely useless for anything else. My point is that the bulk of forum talk falls into the character count of Twitter … meaning Twitter is no less useful than the bulk of forum chatter. Certainly more useful than IM, as you can have links and so on track stuff said about you or about certain topics.

If you want to be ignorant that is fine, just realize that each time you open your mouth on the subject you are not showing lack of knowledge, but ignorance.

I know you're a big fan, Mike, but I just don't get it. Can you point me to a feed that's useful/interesting and where the content wouldn't have simply been better somewhere else. like on a blog? I've never seen anything remotely useful and backtracking links in such as small format is a pain in the ass, I find.

You say a big part of forums is no more useful but that's hardly an endorsement. Forums are easier to read, you can make a longer reply if you want/need to…what does Twitter bring to the table that improves that function?

I read the fake Phil Spector tweets. Those were pretty funny.

To me, Twitter can be like an aggomeration of Facebook, RSS Reader, IM, and a massively spammed email account.

I have a tightly controlled list of folks I follow who fall into these basic types:
- Actual friends: some post 'TwitPics' of stuff while on vacation, etc, or just general info … sometimes useful, other times not so much.
- Internet friends - same as above, but the integrated DM function is very nice for private messages at any time.
- Game companies (Bioware, CDP, etc) - PR, contests, general info
- Game retail sites (GamersGate, GoG, etc) - PR, contests, general info
- Music blogs - new releases, cool interviews, podcasts, articles, etc
- Artists - general info, for example got road reports from Wynton Marsalis and Dave Holland from recent tours
- Gadget Sites - new tech info, gadgets, deals, etc
- Deal sites - sales!

I have TwitterFox, a small icon in my lower right of the browser that will update as stuff comes in.

I am not saying it is for everyone - on vacation last week I barely touched it at all - but there is a difference between having no interest and the ignorant bashing that has been happening here.