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[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

i never really "got" twitter. i dont really know why "#" is called a hashtag or even why people use hastags and for what purpose

You could read the thread you're posting in, where it has been explained about a dozen times in plain, simple English.

 

[Emitan]

i never really "got" twitter. i dont really know why "#" is called a hashtag

Because that's what it's called? That has nothing to do with Twitter.

 

[Zekes!]

I'm curious now; what's a good client for twitter? I use it all the time and never really thought about using a client.

 

[Wario64]

I need to make a Twitter for Dummies book and get rich

 

[kottila]

i never really "got" twitter. i dont really know why "#" is called a hashtag or even why people use hastags and for what purpose

It's a justin bieber promotion tool

 

[artist]

I refuse to use it because of the way strnge way stoopid ppl twit

 

[Emitan]

I'm curious now; what's a good client for twitter? I use it all the time and never really thought about using a client.

People use clients for Twitter? Why? It's so simple, already.

 

[Wario64]

People use clients for Twitter? Why? It's so simple, already.

Cause Web Twitter is shit and if you're relying on the Web, you're doing it wrong

 

[Slavik81]

i never really "got" twitter. i dont really know why "#" is called a hashtag or even why people use hastags and for what purpose

It's called a hashtag because it's a tag marked by a hash.

# = hash
text_following_it = tag

 

[Korey]

I'm curious now; what's a good client for twitter? I use it all the time and never really thought about using a client.

I use Twhirl

It sits in my taskbar like any IM client. Very simple to use.

It looks like this except I set the input box to be on the top because it makes more sense for twitter:

 

[Slappers Only]

I sure don't get it.

@Davis
This is great @bill @jeff look at this video! wwwxxxxxxx.com @kel haha!

Like, who the fuck is saying what to who?

Thank you.

 

[Deleted member 1235]

If Twitter is too confusing, then you might not want to be on the computer at all.

it's not hard to use, it's hard to understand the point of for a lot of people.


it's awesome if your internet is fucked though. I don't call companies, I just search on twitter and read the bitching.

 

[sca2511]

Twitter reminds me of IRC

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

I refuse to use it because of the way strnge way stoopid ppl twit

So then don't read anything by those people?

It's like saying you don't read GAF because some people here aren't very smart.

 

[Meier]

So then don't read anything by those people?

It's like saying you don't read GAF because some people here aren't very smart.

People are so insulated from others on Facebook that they don't realize how many dumb as fuck people use it. As if Twitter's transparency is a bad thing.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Too confusing? For who, exactly? One look at the trending section of Twitter and you'll realize that any idiot can use it.

looks like a lot of flaky shit is being talked about on Twitter.

#idratherpostonGAF

 

[VeryGooster]

I read most of this thread, but...

If Twitter is too confusing, then you might not want to be on the computer at all.

...this.

I think if people who make Twitter accounts utilized the Lists feature more, the experience would be a better one for you, probably. I love it for sports and game news, and where else will I find out when a celebrity croaks?

Although I don't know how I feel about this "Activity" thing at the moment.

 

[Plasmid]

If Twitter is too confusing, then you might not want to be on the computer at all.

Agreed. Twitter is simpler than Facebook to me.

 

[LCfiner]

It's not too complicated, it's an objectively inferior concept.

Facebook lets you passively keep in touch with friends you don't see constantly. Twitter is essentially a blog with a small character limit. Somehow normal people have gotten it in their heads that other people want to read their Twitters. It should only be used for celebrities and such, IMO.

ugh, celebrities are the worst at twitter. there are some rare exceptions but most celeb twitter accounts are dull, dull, dull.

but sometimes something amazing happens like with Aston Kutcher's ignorant tweet about Penn State. that was great.

I love twitter as it keeps me entertained with some genuinely funny and interesting people creating posts all day long. sometimes they link to interesting things. sometimes they're just really funny and make me smile a bit while I'm killing time. And since I don't need to worry about following real life friends like I would on facebook, the twitter feed is much better than the always lame facebook feed from the people you know.

As for the idea that twitter is complicated. yeah, I'd say that's fair if a new user were to see all the posts with hashtags and confusing, multi-layered retweet symbols and @replies.

the official RT function seems clear enough but it's confusing when some people use the offical function and then others just manually type in "RT" in front of another user's tweet.

I find it easier to enjoy twitter if I just ignore hashtags most of the time.

 

[discoalucard]

It's called a hashtag because it's a tag marked by a hash.

# = hash
text_following_it = tag

I don't think many outside of computers know a # as a hash - in everyday use it's just used as a standin in "numeral" or for indicating selections on automated phone messages, where it's called a pound sign.

Another issue - why do tags need to be "marked" for trending? Can't it simply use basic word analysis to see what people are talking about? There are technical reasons I'm sure, but the average person cares little for things like that.

 

[Zaptruder]

I prefer to have my twitter information disseminated to me through neogaf.

It keeps most of the shit out that way.

 

[Oozinator]

it's just a way for attention whores to let the "world" know what unimportant things they are doing.

 

[FormallyFamicom]

I love twitter. I follow lots of writers and generally cool/insightful people. Plus it's great for live events like sports or bad awards shows that everyone would be watching at the same time.

 

[PastorOfMuppets]

I don't use Twitter. I have an account but what can I say in 160 characters? I think what people like about it is that it's the one platform where you can interact directly with celebrities. On Facebook they have fan pages which are usually managed for PR purposes. On Twitter, you can go back and forth between Aston Kutcher when he makes a stupid statement about Joe Paterno. Can't do that on Facebook because most celebrites have fan pages and their real profiles are private.

 

[Liu Kang Baking A Pie]

The stupid assumptions, generalizations, and blanket statements being made about Twitter are the worst.

Let's all make snap judgments about GAF.

 

[Slappers Only]

it's just a way for attention whores to let the "world" know what unimportant things they are doing.

Pretty much. It's a way to live conspicuously, for whoever's interested.

 

[BattleMonkey]

I never understood it, but I never tried to. Just a bunch of names and symbols. Why do I want to twitter if I got facebook already?

 

[Korey]

Let nobody question the purpose of Twitter from this point forth.

All the NBA drama right now is breaking/blowing up because of it.

 

[Oblivion]

What? Twitter is like the no. 7 most frequented website on the planet.

 

[Cow Mengde]

I hate the word limit on Twitter. I use twitter for dinosaur related postings and fuck me if I could fit a dinosaur name and say anything worth while within the limit.

 

[Damon Bennet]

I always wonder how stuff like
#iwouldkillyouif or similar tags become trendibg topics. Who starts those?

i dont really get the #tags anyway as twitter analyses trending topics with normal words anyway