Thread: Poll: Twitter Complex - Do You Use Twitter?

Ok so does anyone use Twitter? I was asked by a friend what my Twitter tag was and when I replied I didn't have one well is an understatement. She says that it's a must if I want to get working again but I just don't understand it. I've read friend's Twitter pages and I just don't understand most messages. Could someone please try and explain it?

My second problem with Twitter is I think it's a total waste of time but that's just my opinion. I think it's demeaning that people tell strangers they've just bought a coffee from Starbucks. Is it just me am I too "stuck up"?

What do you think about Twitter?

L x

I have twitter but i only made it so i could read artist updates.

I don't like twitter at all, and I have no interest in getting an account.

I do not use twitter. I have a Facebook but I rarely update it. I honestly find no such use for social media, because I have nothing which I want to share with anybody I know. I don't feel that they really need to know exactly what I'm doing and how I'm feeling 24/7. Facebook has more flexibility, but that is basically all twitter is. If I had twitter, I would have absolutely no idea what to tweet. I only found facebook useful keeping in touch with my family and sharing things with them while I was out of the country. I suppose it will become more useful for this purpose when I leave the country again this winter and then move across the country next fall. Otherwise, if I have something I want to tell someone, I can always just tell them in person or on the phone. I don't have a cell phone either, so I don't do texting. Calling people is the quickest way to communicate if you are not currently near them.

I have two accounts. One for friends and family (200 tweets in 1.5 years, 90% of it conversational); the other one is to get updated on music news, world news, traffic news, stalk my favourite artists (Valery Gergiev's account often posts pictures on Facebook and tweet about it) and some orchestra and opera houses.

It's useful, but I definitely can live without it.

I have twitter, but only as a dumping ground for links to interesting articles in case anyone else should find that their reading preferences miraculously align with mine. It's more of a thumbs-up than anything interactive. I follow a fair few people that I like, but I never read anything they put out. Twitter is inundated with crap, and even the best of them can succumb to the temptation to write drivel. "It's only 140 characters!" they think, but when hundreds of people are thinking the same thing, you end up with utter garbage that you have no motivation to read. Besides, when can 140 character conversations ever be interesting? It's purpose, to me, seems to be one of: a) following famous people (not interested); b) being followed if you're famous (not famous); or c) use as a discovery tool. Give me RSS feeds and decent conversations on Google+ and I've got that last one covered far better.

Not in the least bit interested

I don't twit because I don't want to be a...twit!

I don't have twitter, and really hope that circumstances don't force me into getting an account like what happened with Facebook. I hate Facebook.

Originally Posted by Lenfer

Ok so does anyone use Twitter? I was asked by a friend what my Twitter tag was and when I replied I didn't have one well is an understatement. She says that it's a must if I want to get working again but I just don't understand it. I've read friend's Twitter pages and I just don't understand most messages. Could someone please try and explain it?

My second problem with Twitter is I think it's a total waste of time but that's just my opinion. I think it's demeaning that people tell strangers they've just bought a coffee from Starbucks. Is it just me am I too "stuck up"?

What do you think about Twitter?

L x

From what I have read it can all become unpleasant and dangerous.

I find Twitter very useful. Opera houses often broadcast information via Facebook & Twitter before more conventional methods.

Twitter is interactive & last night I asked ROH a question & got an answer within about 10 minutes. I could have emailed them but would have had to wait until Monday morning. Some opera singers use it & following them can be good fun.

A few months ago an avid opera fan who I follow Tweeted about an up-coming interview with David McVicar which I hadn't noticed & I was able to get the last ticket.

Never had Twitter or Facebook. Never want it. Seems like a waste of time really.

Tried it, didn't like it - it's just for people that like gossip magazines isn't it?

Whilst most of us (possibly all of us, though some secretly) want 'significance', we don't all need the degree of self-importance that Facebook and Twitter seem to imply. A while ago, I started writing a blog on another forum, but within 20 words slipped into self-parody.

I'm happy that I've found one or two enclosed places where I can express myself - and listen to others express themselves - without feeling obliged to tell the entire world my opinions on anything and everything. Having said that, there are some things going on in the world which I am no longer happy to keep quiet about.

Twitter and Facebook seem to reduce everything (or elevate some things) to the same degree of importance. For my children, every moment has to be a Twitter or Facebook moment. Life gets recorded and reported, not lived!

I apologize for not actually creating the poll I was tired and I forgot to do it.

I'm glad it's not just me who doesn't have a Twitter account. When I read my friend's Twitter accounts it seems to be a way of showing off your latest purchase be it clothes, gadgets or makeup etc. I don't like the fact that so many people see Twitter as essential my other half actually had a row with his publishers because he refused to make a Twitter account. I still don't understand the messages though.