Dev Posts = Twitter.
By
Altoholic_Monkey,
Posted on: 2009-08-06 17:03 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
They are doing it for added publicity... Something I am pretty sure NASA needs... FIFA, not so sure, but I don't follow much sports, let alone football.
Looking for publicity seems to be glory hounding... but I might be using an archaic definition.
Regardless, it's still information spam... I doubt there is anything in those tweets that you couldn't uncover by visiting the respective agency's website. I get spam letters in my mail box, spam e-mail online, and even in game... I see no need to voluntarily sign myself up for additional flotsam and jetsam to sort through.
If you use it and enjoy it, good on ya. I feel it a waste of my time. Each to his own.
And yes, you young whippersnappers need to get the hell offa my lawn! ^_^
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But I don't hate it. That's what's amusing. I just dislike it. And I read this funny thing called a 'newspaper' when I want news. And if I want something more up to date or more information about something, I go to various news sites....on my own.
I realize I probably definitely just showed my age. A newspaper? Oh me oh my. 
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Not hate. That's a very strong sentiment... It's not even a dislike... It's more I find Twitter "ridiculous". And I've got enough ridiculousness in my life already. That's all.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
Its not really a big deal. Its more amusing that you guys hate it so much
When you don't need to. |
I am the 99%. Occupy the World.
Minister of Infinity's Secret Police, Official Mooch of dUmb and League, Official Purveyor of Free Straws, the Most Interesting Man in the World.
http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
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Damn right. I remember when we used BBSs instead of these newfangled websites, my 2400 Baud made me rule the neighbourhood. Commodore 64? I was spinning Apple IIE hun.|
Originally Posted by Eran_
And yes, you young whippersnappers need to get the hell offa my lawn! ^_^ |
Those were the days.
Seriously, have fun with Twitter Devs, not my thing.
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I'm not really interested in defending Twitter. You either see the value or you don't. What I'll say is that this statement is painting with a VERY broad brush. One that could be applied just as easily to Facebook or any other "social networking site" or even this very forum.|
Originally Posted by Eran_
However, Twitter, SPECIFICALLY, is mindless information spam and glory hounding.
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I could give you a list of my "twitter feeds" that would disprove the statement I quoted above. Would it make a difference to you or would you just say "That makes you an exception?" or "Okay, MOST of Twitter is..."
In any information stream, there's signal and noise. The fact that there's a ton of noise is not an indication that there is no signal to pick up. Instead of condemning Twitter (or facebook or any other "social networking") as mindless attention-grabbing, you could ask "where's the signal?" and possibly find out that it's possible to ignore the noise and actually improve your daily information and/or entertainment quotient.
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Doesn't using "*" count and degrading language? |
Originally Posted by Yosef_Vanya
**** TWITTER.
Hipster piece of ****. Hey, I know, lets have a site that I can blog to every single minute of the day because I'm sure people would much rather read my 'tweets' than talk to me in person. ******* piece of **** Twitter. It's ancient technology made hipster garbage by some idiotic hipster who wants to further the degradation of spoken language. **** Twitter. |
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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I don't get newspapers, I think we should save our trees.
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Originally Posted by TinyBolt
But I don't hate it. That's what's amusing. I just dislike it. And I read this funny thing called a 'newspaper' when I want news. And if I want something more up to date or more information about something, I go to various news sites....on my own.
I realize I probably definitely just showed my age. A newspaper? Oh me oh my. |
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If you open a Twitter account, we can follow you, and see when you tell us to get off your lawn.
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Originally Posted by Eran_
And yes, you young whippersnappers need to get the hell offa my lawn! ^_^ |
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
If you open a Twitter account, we can follow you, and see when you tell us to get off your lawn.
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To Slick Riptide: Yeah, there's the error in absolutes. Rephrased: "However I see Twitter, SPECIFICALLY, as mindless information spam and/or glory hounding." And since that's how I view it, I'll not use it. I dislike most/all of the social networking mechanisms online anyhow... Suppose I am "Luddite" in that regards.
I am the 99%. Occupy the World.
Minister of Infinity's Secret Police, Official Mooch of dUmb and League, Official Purveyor of Free Straws, the Most Interesting Man in the World.
http://www.change.org/petitions/ncso...city-of-heroes
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You could tweet that too.
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Originally Posted by Eran_
*head asplodes*
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
I see no point to Twitter...even though I use MySpace and Facebook, haven't really done anything with them...
See now I strongly dislike "MySpace"!!!! Rawr!
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Ahhh and therein lies the difference. I save trees in other ways, then promptly destroy all my good work by buying newspapers. I'm nefarious like that.
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
I don't get newspapers, I think we should save our trees.
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mew? :3
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Originally Posted by Perfect_Pain
See now I strongly dislike "MySpace"!!!! Rawr!
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I just added the tags "cranky old folks" and "lawn invasions" - I think I need to tweet that too - back in a moment.
@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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Twitter update: I just tweeted about the post I made above.
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
I just added the tags "cranky old folks" and "lawn invasions" - I think I need to tweet that too - back in a moment.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
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The 'lawn invasions' made me lolz.
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
I just added the tags "cranky old folks" and "lawn invasions" - I think I need to tweet that too - back in a moment.
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I don't hate Twitter. Have very little use for it? Yup, but not hate. Prefer Facebook myself, at least I can comment on status updates.
Social networking is all well and good but it should never replace a real website. Sure it can augment it, add value to it. However replacing it is a bit no-no in my book.
As long as the website is the primary source of information I can care less what gets tweeted.
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GR closed beta invitations will only be sent out to Positron's followers on Twitter.|
Originally Posted by Calash
As long as the website is the primary source of information I can care less what gets tweeted.
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@Golden Girl
City of Heroes comics and artwork
Prediction:
The next step will be twittercaching.
Take twitter comments but cross-index them with a gps coordinate a la geocaching (either automatically through your phone's GPS or manually). You can then add tweets that can be found by people querying that area. It'll be used for... well, mostly junk, virtual graffiti, virtual geocaching, and attention-seeking. People will also rate restaurants & retailers... allowing just enough usefulness that the tech evangelists will herald it as the next great awesome.
In reality, most people that try it will have to wade through lines of text trash just to find the only review for their restaurant on it is "try the veal."
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
GR closed beta invitations will only be sent out to Positron's followers on Twitter.
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LOLOLOLOLOLOLLOLOLOLOLOOLOLOLOLL
someone will take that seriously
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
GR closed beta invitations will only be sent out to Positron's followers on Twitter.
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Originally Posted by Golden_Girl_EU
GR closed beta invitations will only be sent out to Positron's followers on Twitter.
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Woohoo!
And, just because:
http://www.twitter.com/PepsimanX
My updates are locked, btw....
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now I have to watch a Pepsiman commercial...*shakes fist*
**** TWITTER.
Hipster piece of ****.
Hey, I know, lets have a site that I can blog to every single minute of the day because I'm sure people would much rather read my 'tweets' than talk to me in person.
******* piece of **** Twitter. It's ancient technology made hipster garbage by some idiotic hipster who wants to further the degradation of spoken language. **** Twitter.