[Juice]

Update: I love that this thread just won't die. Updated the OP with a working search link and my elusive Twitter handle (@searls)

I'm an avid Twitter user and was just punching in a few random keywords into Twitter search and enjoyed reading through the references to NeoGAF.

http://twitter.com/#search?q=neogaf

It's humorous how many are just people complaining about how they can't get in. You are part of a happening, exclusive club!

Pumped to finally be an official member of NeoGAF! Coming up this week: interviews from David Walsh, Margaret Robertson, & Kristen Kalning.

I've been waiting AGES on a NeoGAF activation....how long should this take?!?

It's fun how it's tracking the downtime a few weeks ago:

When NeoGAF is down, it feels like half the Internet has disappeared.

I keep clicking on my NeoGAF bookmark involuntarily. Goddamn it.

Anyone else having issues getting on NEOGAF??

[ToxicAdam]

CajoleJuice uses Twitter?! NOOOOOooooooooo

[fistfulofmetal]

What the fuck is Twitter?

[Juice]

Hah! I didn't even notice that when I copied it in. :lol

http://twitter.com/CajoleJuice

[Juice]

What the fuck is Twitter?

For the uninitiated: http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

I used to have a pretty well-read blog, but once I got a full time job I didn't have the time. Twitter is a great way to keep people up to date on the little things in your life, without being as nearby as you'd like.

[AnthonyP]

For the uninitiated: http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter I used to have a pretty well-read blog, but once I got a full time job I didn't have the time. Twitter is a great way to keep people up to date on the little things in your life, without being as nearby as you'd like.

Twitter seems really stupid at first and I was a skeptic for months despite having an account. The best thing you can do is download a desktop client for Twitter (I uses Thwirl, but there are tons of them out there. One of the bigger new ones is FriendFeed that lets you aggregate all of your friends activities across all kinds of sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc.)

Once you have a desktop client installed and have a few close friends you'll start to see their little updates and a lot of them are often funny and kind of cool.

It's not for everyone, but I completely did a 180 on my opinion of it once I got a desktop client.

[Juice]

Twitter seems really stupid at first and I was a skeptic for months despite having an account. The best thing you can do is download a desktop client for Twitter (I uses Thwirl, but there are tons of them out there. One of the bigger new ones is FriendFeed that lets you aggregate all of your friends activities across all kinds of sites like Twitter, Facebook, etc.) Once you have a desktop client installed and have a few close friends you'll start to see their little updates and a lot of them are often funny and kind of cool. It's not for everyone, but I completely did a 180 on my opinion of it once I got a desktop client.

I hated it at first, but then I realized it was a great way to post little clever thoughts throughout the day. And yeah, that was only once I got a native client for the iPhone.

[Lhadatt]

Twitter and its ilk are the doom of the Internet.

THE TUBES ARE CLOGGING ABANDON SHIPS

[okno]

I always find it funny when I hear people bitch about being unable to get a GAF activation. My account was literally created in seconds. I made my account, hit submit, got an e-mail like five seconds later, and it was on.

[Absinthe]

What the fuck is Twitter?

Inane materialized.

[Ten-Song]

[tokkun]

It's hard to imagine the sort of vanity it takes to make someone create a Twitter account

[daegan]

It's quicker for me to tweet 'hay guys I'm going to Sonic, are you there?' then to text it to 10+ people.

Unfortunately, it doesn't get used like this very often, because most of them don't have updates to their phone. BUT I CAN DREAM.

I dunno. It's addictive. XD

[jooey]

It's hard to imagine the sort of vanity it takes to make someone create a Twitter account

it's accidental vanity that doesn't exactly ascribe to any one sort of personality. People just want to do it because it's a repackaged way of doing the crap they used to do.

It's hard to imagine the sort of vanity it takes to make someone create a LiveJournal account

It's hard to imagine the sort of vanity it takes to make someone create a NeoGAF Off-Topic thread

[M3wThr33]

Not enough friends use this... YET
Also, I think, because of my stupid sister, 5-digit SMSs were disabled for our account. I need to get them re-enabled.

http://twitter.com/M3wThr33

[BanGy.nz]

Fuck Twitter! it's part of the reason This Week In Tech is nearly unlistenable now days.

[Gowans]

Just set up on Twitter today to check it out, along with tis nice little firefox plug in.

Did a google cross reference with twitter and neogaf to get some friends.

Need more add me.

http://twitter.com/gowans007

[legend166]

Fuck Twitter! it's part of the reason This Week In Tech is nearly unlistenable now days.

THIS.

[salva]

I don't see how you have the time to post everything you do on twitter...

[bjork]

I don't see how you have the time to post everything you do on twitter...

Hey holmes! I wondered where you'd been.

[salva]

Hey holmes! I wondered where you'd been.

/me goes to twitter to post "OMG I GOT UNBANNED FROM NEOGAF!!!!"

Thanks, ese

[Danj]

My twitter is at http://twitter.com/danj2k but it's kinda sparse right now as Twitter IM is (still!) down and that's my preferred update method.

[Jill Sandwich]

When I want to tell my friends what I'm doing and to organise events I use Phone. I think everyone should try Phone, it's fantastic - you dial your friends number and you actually get to speak to them, REALTIME! Like, live updates!

[akachan ningen]

I lose all respect for anyone who tells me they use twitter.

[Danj]

I lose all respect for anyone who tells me they use twitter.

Well, I never had anyone's respect anyway, so that doesn't really matter much to me.

[ckohler]

Did the inventors of twitter punch you guys in the nuts or something? I don't understand why people are so addicted to MySpace and Facebook but I don't go about ragging on people who use those services. Lighten up.

Twitter is convenient and fun once you get into it with your friends. It's basically public, broadcast instant messaging.

http://twitter.com/ckohler

[StrikerObi]

Fuck Twitter! it's part of the reason This Week In Tech is nearly unlistenable now days.

You should try listening to Macbreak Weekly!

Anyway, I've had a Twitter for awhile but I recently started using it a lot again.

http://www.twitter.com/StrikerObi

I recommend Twitterrific for anybody on OS X. While at work I use TwitterFox.

[TehOh]

http://twitter.com/Greg4cr

I started using it when I realized that I was updating my Facebook status all the time anyways, figured I might as well get a Twitter.

[XShagrath]

I use twitter to get Rock Band DLC announcements sent to my phone in case I'm away from a machine around the time of the Friday announcement.

I can't see using it for inane useless things like "I just got some new shoes. They're kickin!"

[zombi]

I just started using twitter again. I think its a service that really makes sense through something like an iphone (or any phone I guess). Since the iphone's 2.0 firmware came out its making a lot more sense to me.
www.twitter.com/nickdifilippo

EDIT: Added everybody in the thread! I hope more people have picked it up since the OP

[White Man]

I didn't use Twitter at all for a while, and I thought it was pointless, but paired up with brightkite it's pretty cool. Making one line pithy twitter posts never did much for me, but being able to upload photos to it directly from my cell phone is pretty awesome. Twitter should be that feature fully integrated.

Actually, Twitter should probably make sure they stay up all the time before they start adding features.

[zombi]

Ya, being able to simply function most the time would be rad. The gps (or in my case cell tower triangulation) within the tweet is pretty cool as well as the picture feature. If you have an iPhone totally get twitterific....free awesomeness

[Patrick Klepek]

White Man, can you get me an invite to Bright Kite?

[zombi]

Isnt there a service or client that lets me update through it and it updates all my different site accounts like pownce, twitter, facebook? For a second I thought it was Bright Kite.

[keanerie]

I use Twitter quite a bit, it's a lot of fun when you have a mix of real friends/random people/random interests/fake accounts/random web celebs to follow, though at times the people who really take it too far tweeting like 40 times a day almost make me want to stop using the service.

Oh, and it's great paired with an iPhone, obviously - Twittelator is fantastic: upload photos directly, location tracking, nice interface.

Follow me, I'll follow you:

I'm www.twitter.com/keanerie

Added most of the people who posted their accounts. See you folks on the tweet wires.

[Macam]

Fuck Twitter! it's part of the reason This Week In Tech is nearly unlistenable now days.

I always like how Leo and co. know it's everyone despises hearing them talk about it, assures everyone they will, and then proceeds to go ahead and do it anyway.

[CajoleJuice]

CajoleJuice uses Twitter?! NOOOOOooooooooo

I STOPPED!!!


:(

[White Man]

White Man, can you get me an invite to Bright Kite?

Done. . .and are you REALLY watching Buffy for the first time? I figured you would have been all over that already.

[layzie1989]

https://twitter.com/layzie1989

just signed up, will check out app

[MaizeRage25]

A lot of haters, but I'm on twitter too: http://twitter.com/maizerage

I haven't really used it a whole lot though.

[zoku88]

Fuck Twitter! it's part of the reason This Week In Tech is nearly unlistenable now days.

I decided to listen to my first podcast ever months ago. Which one was it you ask? The episode of TWIT where they first started talking about twitter :-/

I finished that episode and never listened to another one again...

I still need to find a good podcast.

[Memles]

Fell onto the Twitter bandwagon after a few internet acquaintances pressured me, and I figured it would be a good way to expand my interaction with my blog's readers:

http://www.twitter.com/memles/

[Terrell]

When I want to tell my friends what I'm doing and to organise events I use Phone. I think everyone should try Phone, it's fantastic - you dial your friends number and you actually get to speak to them, REALTIME! Like, live updates!

THIS. :lol
Seriously, the way this keeps up, we'd never actually have to speak to another real human being ever again! I think we're making ourselves a little too digitally available. NO ONE needs to be this tuned into another person's life that you need a Twitter play-by-play.

Yeah, basically this is what it devolves to.

[nakedsushi]

I was really skeptical about twitter and didn't have one till recently, but now that I have one, it's addictive, like someone else says. It's comforting reading the inane things other people have to go through during their everyday lives.

edit: oh yeah, mine is at http://www.twitter.com/nakedsushi/

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

Seriously, the way this keeps up, we'd never actually have to speak to another real human being ever again! I think we're making ourselves a little too digitally available. NO ONE needs to be this tuned into another person's life that you need a Twitter play-by-play.

Wrong way to look at it.

Face it, we're all getting more digitally involved, and that's because useful digital tools are generally more helpful and fun than most human beings.

You're going out to a movie. Do you call all of your friends individually to ask who wants to come, or do you just post a Twitter message and they all get the invite right away? This is an example of technology being better than our current methods of communication. And why judge this use of Twitter poorly compared to using a phone, which would still be using technology to achieve a goal?

I'm not a Twitter user, but I keep up with a couple of friends on there, and I can totally see how keeping up with the minor details of a person's life would be more interesting and actually potentially improve a friendship compared to just randomly getting together and struggling for shit to talk about. Now when you meet up with a friend, you know what shows they've been watching, what's going on with their family, what they're stressed about, and all sorts of shit you'd never really get out of casual conversation. You may know that they want to check out some new restaurant, so it opens the line of communication to call them up and invite them out. Shit like this has actually happened, and these boring little details of people's lives can be fucking useful when one isn't being a pessimistic luddite about it.

Whenever I see people complain about Twitter or something similar, I get the feeling that these people are becoming the cranky old men that don't understand the youth or new rock music, except now they're turning into cranky old men in their teens. Twitter (and Facebook or Myspace or whatever else kids are using) has the potential to make people much more open about themselves to you than the usual short-sighted complaints would have you believe.

[xsarien]

I <3 Twitter. Whenever something could never be a substantial blog post, I just send it up to Twitter. (And hope I don't get the Fail Whale in the process.)

[$h@d0w]

We need to twitter our progress on this thread:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=326768

[White Man]

Wrong way to look at it. Whenever I see people complain about Twitter or something similar, I get the feeling that these people are becoming the cranky old men that don't understand the youth or new rock music, except now they're turning into cranky old men in their teens. Twitter (and Facebook or Myspace or whatever else kids are using) has the potential to make people much more open about themselves to you than the usual short-sighted complaints would have you believe.

I dig Twitter now, and I used to be a pretty vocal opponent, but even now in my pro-Twitter days, I see it as something that really needs to improve quite a bit; as a tool only partially complete. API and downtime issues aside, things like the features of Brightkite turn it from neat curiosity to pretty interesting tool for people that like to take photos of the kooky shit they come across in everyday life.

I'm positive that the Brightkite features will eventually get nicked eventually, and then all will be happy in the kingdom. What is the full story with their uptime issues? Does it really have to do with money or a backend that simply wasn't designed for such heavy usage? I've heard both sides spun/

[WalkMan]

Twitter would be infinitely more useful if I could somehow migrate my Facebook friends over - or if facebook improves their status updates and make it more akin to twitter. But as it stands now... it's pointless to use since none of my friends would ever commit to using it.

https://twitter.com/loc_sic

[Gowans]

wow a tonne of new adds.

Its really nice and quick on the iPhone but the Twitterfox firefox addon has been great running away in the bottom of your browser and popping up when you get a new tweet.

I really recommend checking it out too.