I signed up for Twitter just to see what it is all about. It didn’t really sound that interesting to me at the time and after looking at it for a week or so, I still don’t really get it.
It’s kind of like chat. It’s kind of like blogging with a very severe character count restriction.
It doesn’t really feel that social.
It seems more like a spot to stand up and shout short vague comments to the internet. There doesn’t seem to be a good way for people to respond to those comments which is where the real magic could happen.
It might be interesting if I had more friends and they were all pretty active but the thought of just letting me shout 140 characters at a time and listen to other shouts without a good way to reply to them just seems a little under whelming to me.
If you want to be my friend and show me how to make it more interesting, my Twitter ID is BeAGoodDad.
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I love this comment. But there is a decent way to respond: start your tweet with an @ followed by the Twitter’s account name.
Of course, the only way he’ll see your tweet is if he has some kind of constant feed to the Twitter public timeline (which means he probably doesn’t have much of a life) or he follows you as a friend.
So you’re pretty much right on target there.