Do you refuse to use Twitter?

I don’t use it, but not because I refuse. I don’t, however, see any need for using it.

I’m just not interested in using Twitter.

Nope! I love it!

Twitter is so much easier than Facebook.

I hate it. >.<

I don’t get it.

It always struck me as though someone took the dumbest part of facebook (the status update) and made a website devoted to that lone feature.

Then again, I don’t understand a lot of popular things. Like dubstep, and political authoritarianism.

It’s just one more thing computer-wise that I would have to figure out and waste time with. I get all the info I want and need mostly from e-mail and phone calls and talking to people in person and reading the paper and watching the news and even listening to the radio. Even FB is a pain in the nards, I only look at it, because the younger relatives in my family won’t use the phone or e-mail.

I haven’t really figured out how to use it. I need a lesson or three.

edit: Fiddle just nailed it for me. It seems to me just to be status updates. I’ve ‘followed’ about 10 people (celebs), and all it seems to be is “heading to the gym” and other lame shit no one cares about. What am I doing wrong?

@FutureMemory You’re obviously “following” the wrong people – those that are heading into the gym.

I just don’t get it. I tried, but I don’t like the idea of strangers “following” me.

I wont use it. It’s quite simple, I don’t like the name. I would never like a product just because of it’s name, but I sure can hate some. Twitter is one of these products, allong with the movie The Lovely Bones, Strictly Come Dancing on TV, and a few others.

I swore I’d never get a Twitter, and yet, here I am with one…I don’t Tweet frequently, but lemme tell you, stalking celebrities has never been easier for me.

I don’t use Twitter at all. I don’t have an account. I don’t want one.

@Kardamom Yeah. Do people even use the phone for calling anymore? Lol.

yep

I have no idea what it is,and I’m ok with that. All this splashing ourselves all over the web is going to bite us in the ass some day.

my childhood dogs name was twitter. That was 40 years ago.

I have a Twitter account, I just never use it. I think the last time I used it was last December.

meh

Omg I love Twitter.

@Fiddle_Playing_Creole_Bastard @FutureMemory The key is being selective in who you follow. News organizations and comedians are good (provided they tell jokes and not when their next gig you can’t go to is). So are people you actually know and give a damn about. It is just another status update but some people are better than others at having status updates you’ll enjoy reading. And I think, at least for me, FB status updates are really hard. Either they feel too mundane and fluffy for FB, or too big to put on FB instead of telling you in person. Enter Twitter: All the stupid, small, funny things that actually bring you close to the people you’re close with. But, it’s really important to be selective in who you follow.

I don’t refuse. I have a Twitter account. I just never use it. I always forget about it.

What purpose does it serve? At least on F/B, I can get news about the latest WSJ or Atlantic cryptic crosswords and ask about specific clues.

I don’t like Twitter. I barely use my facebook. I certainly don’t need another way to avoid communicating with people.

@gailcalled Just FYI, you can do that on Twitter, too.

But on F/B, people get to be more wordy.

@gailcalled More wordy. I think you might just fit in with Twitter yet… :D

Ah, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

However, if one joined, might there be news of Ben and Andrew, our glorious founders?

@gailcalled I don’t care if you use Twitter or not, I was just pointing out that discussion about the crossword puzzles is not a Facebook-exclusive feature, since you seemed puzzled as to why people would use it.

@gailcalled Aren’t you a blood relative of one of the founders?

@FutureMemory: Yes, but there are boundaries.

I started a twitter account a couple of years ago but I never put in the effort to activate it. After all, why should I? It seems so redundant and so I don’t have a need for it.

Refuse is kind of a harsh term, but I guess it kind of fits, yeah. I’ve always thought it kind of silly, and I wouldn’t use it, anyway, so I never bothered. I doubt I ever will, though, for it seems to take a certain skill to Twitter well, skill I lack.

I have a Twitter account…. that I only used for a couple of posts and haven’t touched in over three years. It’s not that I refuse to use it so much as I just have no use for it.

Fluther then Twitter? That’s like after great lovemaking with a sex goddess, I go hump me a goat. What’s the point?

I refuse to use twitter
Reason 1) I don’t care that you need to take a s**t
2) If I want to see somebody making an ass out of themselves I can go to Facebook.

Just like @mazingerz88 said. Twitter makes my day bitter…...

I don’t think anyone has tried to convince me to use twitter because no one I know uses it.
When I next talk to a friend, I can tell her/him the highlights of my life since we last met, no need to show the filler between the good stuff. If it “can’t” wait, I’ll call them. Simple as that.

I joined Twitter, so that I could follow Dr. Michio Kaku’s tweets about the nuclear reactor disaster in Japan, after the 3/11/11 earthquake near its coast.

I also use it to occasionally check the tweets from my congressdude, Brad Sherman.

Next Halloween I should dress as Tweety Bird and carry a Tablet full of tweets. When a surprised and disgusted person opens the door, I’ll show them the Tab and ask, ”<Insert punchline here>.”

Refusing to use it would suggest some degree of interest, like i’m even conscious of it’s existence. So no, I don’t refuse, I just choose not to be a tw@!

Nobody can convince you to use Twitter

I tried. I even went as far as using Geektool to write a script that put my twitter feed on my desktop. It is fucking worthless in my eyes. I deleted my account. I hate URL shorteners with a passion so maybe that is where my hatred comes from.

That and some idiots gave them 1.19 billion dollars for a business plan that consisted of, “We will figure out how to make money later.” Six years later and I still haven’t seen them make a profit.

Snookie > Twitter

Like many others here, I just find it irrelevant to my life.

I can see its value for certain people (mostly groups who need a quick way to update people efficiently) but I’m just not one of those people.

Obviously it was extremely useful during many of the demonstrations and uprisings in the Middle East so I don’t regard it as totally useless but it honestly doesn’t impact my life at all.

Don’t need it. Does anybody really care what everyone is doing or thinking?

@rts486 Apparently yes, judging by the success of all the social sites on the Web. it’s just a matter of which Kool-Aide you decide to drink.

@rts486 Well, no. But lots of people care what specific people are thinking. I care what my closest friends and family are thinking and doing. It’s not like Twitter forces you to follow a minimum of 3,000 people before they let you join…

@Aethelflaed So, if I leave a message on a celebrities page, they will actually see it, right?

I too care what my closest friends and family aer thinking and doing. That’s why I talk to them.

Love it. To bad you can’t see what you are missing. nah, nah, nah , nah ,nah nah!!!

“Hey guys, I just took the biggest dump eva! Wish you all were here!”

Yeah…. No. I pass.