Why in the world would someone want to twitter ?
technically, it’s why would someone want to ‘tweet’. Haha
…the internet twitters while Nero burns.
I’m the type of person that only jumps on a craze four or five years after its become popular. I’ve only had texting for about a year, and I still own my original Xbox with three games, and a $30 Wal-mart (I know, I know, sorry) DVD player, etc…
Col.Dax, I still own my SNES and play it actively. Gotta a whole box of games still for it too.
haah it probably gets more playtime even now then my Xbox 360 which just sits there collecting dust….
As for twittering….nope and probably never will.
My generation is becoming antisocial. When I am with a group of people they all are all texting someone else. People don’t know how to talk in person or even on the phone anymore. The internet and cellphones and other technology could be so useful but as usual humans abuse it.
As I am writing this I am realizing how many hours I spend on here. But it is because no one I know can talk with me about movies, so its different, right?
Drew, I would say there is a huge difference between the discourse on places like the auteurs and other forums, then say….twitter or facebook.
I barely even know what games I own. I think one is a star wars game, one is Halo, and the other is Ninja Gaiden which my friend told me to buy, but I never got past the first boss (I’ll never forget my wasted 20 dollars). I haven’t hooked it up for months, but nonetheless I own it and it worked the last time I used it. I used to own an SNES, I think I broke it. Anyway…
an year ago I did create a profile on twitter and twittered one message while waiting in a emergency at a Hospital. The only follower I had and have now was my brother and I called him 2 days later to let him know what I twittered.
I am usually pretty fast to latch onto fads like these but I tend to skip the ones that I think are stupid pretty quickly too…
Well I’m on Twitter – I just have no idea what I’m supposed to do with it, but from my understanding I’m supposed to constantly update my status and await comments from my friends regarding what I’m doing?
Does this seem creepy to anyone else or is it just me?
1. I don’t WANT anyone knowing what I’m doing every second of the day
2. I don’t have the ENERGY for all that updating
3. I certainly don’t care what my friends think about what I’m doing (unless they want to volunteer to help out – then it’s ok)
I think fads are really funny. Once FaceBook became the new MySpace I said to a friend that the next person to make a copy cat site with a few changes will be rich and this will continue forever. Then Twitter came along proving me right.
I learned my lesson about fads when in 1st grade I threw out hundreds of dollars worth of Pokemon cards away. All my friends started Yu Gi Oh and I said nope it is just the latest Pokemon. 1-2 years later all their new cards were in the trash.
Thanks for the reassurance Crap Monster.
@Dax: Are you talking about the updated Ninja Gaiden (aka Black)? Oh man, try that out again sometime and maybe lower the difficulty first. That’s a beautiful game and was a monster in the video game industry at the time. Its difficulty is notoriously legendary though and I understand your frustration with the first boss haha. It calms down significantly for a while after that encounter. Ninja Gaiden II on 360 is just madness however…
At 20 bucks, that’s a downright steal.
the thing about twitter is, its not a fad and im sure its here to stay for awhile. while i see its merits, it along with many other social networking sites have created a trend where social behavior is becoming compartmentalized and quantified. I mean hell, look at facebook and how it essentially judges people based on how “networked” they are. Likes, dislikes, hobbys, and what used to be characteristics that make up a unique individual have now become simply data for others to look at.
the thing about twitter is, its not facebook. its somewhat of a tangent that is continuing a notion that communication and interaction can be simplified. im not going to explicitly draw parallels here but i cant help but feel this and similar socio-cultural trends are literally dumbing down coming generations. people can no longer express themselves textually in an intelligent manner. they resort to brief “tweets” and communication based upon briefness rather then actual interaction. The real world parallel would be that virtually no one my age can write anymore. I’m hardly a good writer myself, but in undergrad I was easily in the top portion. Most of my friends, roommates, and classmates couldn’t even form a grammatically correct sentence let alone a well structured paper.
I don’t know, I bought it around three years ago. My friend only recommended it because I was huge into Samurai, and Japanese films at the time (still am), and he said I’d like it. I didn’t get anything, and it took me like seven tries just to get to the boss, and then he kills me in five seconds. After that I just yelled, “Done!” and tossed the controller, and shut off the game.
Maybe I’ll try it again.
From Twitter’s website: “With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. Or, you can stop following them any time. You can even set quiet times on Twitter so you’re not interrupted. Twitter puts you in control and becomes a modern antidote to information overload.”
It’s about being hyper-connected, people. Or not. I’m not sure.
Hello_, viral marketingmarketing.
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say ‘’I want to see the manager.’’
W S Burroughs
I still use a rotary phone.
@Dax: Haha I know what you mean. That boss is more of a hit and run kind of deal. You’re significantly faster so you gotta do your quickest hits and then get out of the way. He’s strong but slow. It takes a while but you eventually wear him down. But yea, NG games have driven me to the point of madness many times. Just wanna toss your controller into the TV screen.
I don’t have a rotary phone anymore but I have one for my iphone… does that count?
I sent out one tweet and that was just a Lou Reed lyric because I can’t imagine why I would tell people what I’m doing. It’s good for following the auteurs though…
The auteurs on twitter ? Brilliant…:-)
http://www.theauteurs.com/find_people
click on twitter…
The only twitters I think are even necessary/interesting are live twitters from the sets of movies being made. The twitters for “iron man 2” and “the expendables” have been pretty cool but other than that, I don’t feel it’s necessary to see that my friends are “ABOUT TO GO SHOPPING LOL!” all the time
I ran across a very astute observation by a writer (her name escapes me now) in THE WEEK:
She says that, were Twitter a person, we would shun that person for violating social conventions
that place limits on the info normally
offered to people who are mere acquaintances (if not strangers).
At first, having someone confide in us is flattering. Two days later we realize how creepy
such unearned trust and intimacy really is.
The writer describes such a person as “the tragic sharer.”
I have not seen that term before, but I treasure how apt it is.
Twitter is for tragic sharers.
@doctorlemonglow I find it entertaining and not tragic
It´s good to keep things short
trains the eye
@LOKI Thank you
Mirja Kraemer:
And some find Twiiter entertaining because it is tragic. (insert rimshot here)
What I should have said more clearly is that Twitter is an ideal place
for tragic sharers to thrive. In other words, not everyone at Twitter is a tragic sharer,
but all tragic sharers can likely be found at Twitter.
You strike me, as far as I can tell from this site,
as an intelligent and well-adjusted person keenly interested in film.
As such, you probably will not thrive at Twitter.
I mean that in the same sense that an intelligent, well-adjusted person would
not thrive at, say, a Chelsea F.C. or Leeds United football game.
yeah, it makes sense for things like The Auteurs to have a Twitter. That’s very nice, you know, info…woot. However, I don’t care much for fill-the-void-where-productivity-should-be from bumbling ass-pirates.
ASS-PIRATE?
Hell, yes!
twitter.com/thetoddity
Please, I invite you to listen to me bitch and moan about life.
Who re in twitter? this´s my twitter — http://twitter.com/Nxtalix
Mirja Kraemer
Anyone here into Twitter? I am twitter.com/mirjakraemer
You are?
Thanks