The Twitter Thread - Post Your Twitter Handle and let's all follow each other

KCIndy said:
I guess I'm just a dinosaur... :(

I've looked at both Facebook and Twitter, and I find them both to be useless and insipid at best, and annoyingly intrusive more often than not. If I want friends or family to know what I'm doing, I can send an email in seconds from my Blackberry. I can get breaking news texted to me from any number of news sources.

OP, sorry if this diverted the thread. I've been wondering what the vast attraction to these services was. Thanks for the info. Guess I had better start shopping for retirement homes; the world has officially left me behind!
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So... as you were! Exchange away!!
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I'm not into social networking either - the only reason I started using twitter is b/c I used to be pretty into digg, which allowed like minded people to share news/webpages. I had a largely libertarian network and these links were shared through digg's internal "shout" system which I found to be a pretty good system - you could only "shout" once every 10 minutes, which meant you should only share your best stuff unless you want to stay on the damn internet all day. This really helped to reduce 'inbox' clutter in my opinion. Digg has members of all political persuasions, and you could vote stories onto the front page to expose people to libertarian ideals, and debate about it. You could also share any type of link such as humor, which mixed things up a bit.

Digg killed the shout system sometime last your and encouraged people to switch over to twitter. I reluctantly did so and find it to be much worse than the old system - people can tweet without limit so there's a lot of bullshit you have to filter out. On digg I had a network of a few hundred people but it would be insane for me to do that on twitter. Now I'm only following 40 to 50 people but find a lot of clutter in my 'inbox' but still enough to be useful.

I wouldn't have signed up for twitter if not for my old digg network, which is now greatly diminished. Though I will tell you twitter can be pretty useful for realtime info sometimes. For instance, there have been several occassions where I've gotten a tweet from Judge Nap and the like saying 'scheduled interview to be on X channel at 1:00', giving me the chance to tune in before it starts.

But I won't be following anyone in the thread or posting my twitter account here b/c like I said there's already enough clutter, and as you've seen a few people have already stated they do superfluous tweets. That's just me though - not trying to rain on everybody else's parade.
 
emazur said:
I'm not into social networking either - the only reason I started using twitter is b/c I used to be pretty into digg, which allowed like minded people to share news/webpages. I had a largely libertarian network and these links were shared through digg's internal "shout" system which I found to be a pretty good system - you could only "shout" once every 10 minutes, which meant you should only share your best stuff unless you want to stay on the damn internet all day. This really helped to reduce 'inbox' clutter in my opinion. Digg has members of all political persuasions, and you could vote stories onto the front page to expose people to libertarian ideals, and debate about it. You could also share any type of link such as humor, which mixed things up a bit.

Digg killed the shout system sometime last your and encouraged people to switch over to twitter. I reluctantly did so and find it to be much worse than the old system - people can tweet without limit so there's a lot of bullshit you have to filter out. On digg I had a network of a few hundred people but it would be insane for me to do that on twitter. Now I'm only following 40 to 50 people but find a lot of clutter in my 'inbox' but still enough to be useful.

I wouldn't have signed up for twitter if not for my old digg network, which is now greatly diminished. Though I will tell you twitter can be pretty useful for realtime info sometimes. For instance, there have been several occassions where I've gotten a tweet from Judge Nap and the like saying 'scheduled interview to be on X channel at 1:00', giving me the chance to tune in before it starts.

But I won't be following anyone in the thread or posting my twitter account here b/c like I said there's already enough clutter, and as you've seen a few people have already stated they do superfluous tweets. That's just me though - not trying to rain on everybody else's parade.
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I can understand the frustration with spam on twitter. Luckily I've avoided a lot of it by following good tweeters. Real people, with real messages, and real personalities. I unfollow people regularly who spam too much. I understand the desire to get more followers to a point and get their message out. These individuals turn to twitter networks that turn out spam to get more followers. Some networks work. They will get you more followers. I have tried to stay away from these networks and follow only accounts I find interesting. Do I get spam? From time to time yes, but when your following 3000+ users like I am, you have to expect a bit of it. Also, I can get great information by following various hashtags. In fact, I would say following various hashtags is better than watching your "inbox" all day. I have decided to follow some questionable accounts because it allows me to know what's going on in other parts of the twitter-verse. For me at least spam on twitter seems to run in cycles, more spam some hours, less other hours.

I would suggest RonPaulForums put up a live stream of #tlot on a page somewhere and the users who don't have twitter accounts could still see the most libertarian/conservative news as it happens. Here's a good place to watch. http://twubs.com/tlot/
 
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bobbyw24 said:
Isn't Ron Paul Forums a Social Networking site?
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The debate is useless. Without social networking these other Liberty Canidates would be no where. The shit works. I just say "fuck you, I know your reading this" to the 3 letter organizations.
 
Do you ever feel like, even though you're already on a website or using a piece of technology, you might not be using it the right way, or there might be far more to it than what you see, and everyone else knows what that is except you? I get that feeling all the time on Twitter and I hate it. :-D
 
Normal account has now followed all twitter profiles posted in this thread, will come back with emergency account and to the same in a few hours to keep from triggering a miltiaccount observation
 
Chieppa1 said:
The debate is useless. Without social networking these other Liberty Canidates would be no where. The shit works. I just say "fuck you, I know your reading this" to the 3 letter organizations.
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I have a member of the national GOP following me. He retweets me occasionally, and we've exchanged cordial emails. Wouldn't be possible without social networking.
 
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