TWEETING Do You Do It & Do You Have an Account?

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I don't have a Twitter Account and I was just curious as to how many on this forum do, and if they Tweet often. I have read that it is easier and faster than Texting. Because of my poor hearing I text frequently.
 

I've had an account for awhile. It can be effective if used right. I don't use it much for sending out tweets but I use it as my main source of news along with Feedly.
 
Never had a twitter account, sent a tweet or a text. Don't do facebook either. I usually call people on the phone when I want to, and if they don't answer I leave a voicemail. I also send emails now and then when I have to give someone a message.
 
I let Trump handle tweets and twits for me, I don't do any of that stuff. It is difficult when you don't own a smartphone.
 
Nope, Twitter reminds me of the street corner evangelists that used to stand at the bus stop preaching to a captive audience of commuters. I guess I just don't have any important messages to share with my peeps!!!
 
A friend of mine sent me an invitation to tweet when it first started. I could never figure it out either. Finally I received a notice from Twitter than my account had been stolen or corrupted or something like that and did I want to cancel it. Yes, I did.
 
I opened a twitter account about 6 years ago. Sent a few, admittedly very lame, tweets just for bragging rights. Since then, not so much. I have nothing bad to say about, it's just not my thing. I do text a lot and use FB & FB messenger a lot.
 
I've tried tweeting with a couple of different biz accounts, both proved perfectly worthless for me, and the whole thing seems pointless and rather silly.

Imo, habitual tweeters are people who just aren't very dimensional, intellectually or personally.
 
jujube said:
Nope and nope. Nobody in their right mind is going to be the slightest bit interested in what I'm doing/thinking/eating at any minute in the day.
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Isn't it amazing how many people in society today seem to believe that the public-at-large is interested in what they are having for dinner? LOL
 
There are some who I find amusing to follow. Steve Martin is a good example and he does do his own stuff but for the most part. I mainly use it to follow the sports and news sites that I am interested in and it's pretty much essential for me to use it to keep up with the latest tech news. Keep in mind that there are many using twitter who find forums such as this as outdated,pointless and silly ! People have their own way of using the internet to communicate different things to different groups of people these days and for some Twitter is the most effective way. For others (including myself for communicating on a personal level) it is pretty much an empty vessel.
 
I have had an account for several years, but I don't send anything out. Once in a blue moon I might re-tweet something that I found interesting or amusing, but it's pretty rare. I follow a few comedians and folks in the news. One time it really came in handy was in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombing. I was in England and it was tough to know what was going on back home. Followed the feed of one of the local news stations. I also use Twitter as a means for seeing what folks are saying about a particular topic. Folks can get pretty nasty on there.
 
I opened a Twitter account out of curiosity. Then I discovered that a man on Christmas Island was using Twitter to alert people to the arrival of asylum seekers on Christmas Island at a time when our government was being ultra secretive about their dealing with these unfortunates. I immediately became a follower and learnt more than the government was willing to share.

As people may have guessed, I am interested in politics :grin: but in our last election I was feeling quite jaded so I decided to follow the campaign via the political cartoonists, all of whom tweet out links to their latest cartoons. I followed cartoonists from both ends of the political spectrum but have had to unfollow one because his cartoons are just to revolting to look at.

During the last US presidential campaign I started following both Trump and Clinton because Twitter is a new way that candidates get their message to supporters without going through the media filter and it is important to understand this new connection. Only recently have I discovered how to see what comes back to them from anyone with a Twitter account.

If people think that political discussion on this forum gets a little rough at times, they should see what people feel free to post on Twitter. By reading what supporters and detractors tweet one can get a feeling for the general thinking of each politician's political base. It isn't so much like looking through a window into a dark room as lifting up a rock and seeing what crawls beneath.

I don't tweet about myself but occasionally I do offer a response by way of liking a tweet and sometimes I retweet something that I think is important. When I first started retweeting the information from Christmas Island I had just two people following me. They were people who already knew me and were alerted to my activity by Twitter itself. One was my grandson, another a friend from church. Since then I have acquired a number of followers that I do not know personally but who must have noticed something I retweeted and they decided I might be interesting. At the moment I have 14 followers and follow 27 others. This is of no importance to me. I'm there to read, listen and learn and I add people of interest from time to time and drop them once they have nothing new to show me.
 
SeaBreeze said:
Never had a twitter account, sent a tweet or a text. Don't do facebook either. I usually call people on the phone when I want to, and if they don't answer I leave a voicemail. I also send emails now and then when I have to give someone a message.
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That's exactly what I do, SB. My son tried his best to get me to learn to text, but I have some arthritis in my hands and can't do it well and it takes me forever and don't like doing it, anyway.

Never felt the urge to let the entire world know what I'm doing.
 
I signed up out of curiosity and now I can't get rid of it! Tweets come in and I erase them without reading them. I tried to get rid of the ap to rid myself of it but that didn't work. It seems like you have to go thru some process to rid yourself of it which I haven't bothered with yet...
 
I do have an account but never really got into it. There's something distasteful about comments made off the top of some mouthy person's head without giving thought to the impression they're leaving. I don't have very good filter so I just do myself and everyone else a favor by staying away.
 
I have an account, but I was so unimpressed with Twitter that I left and now can not remember what name I used, or password. Still unimpressed.
 
No Twitter. Can't hack the destruction of written human language or the non-existent level of civility and utter lack of intelligent discourse that runs rampant along with more sane info. So, I am a bon-fide Tweet-ie Pie Snob!! Heh.
 

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