Twitter:Who are you following and why?

DMG_49

People on twitter....

Who are you following and why?

E.g Following Apple, so I know about updates/ new ipad etc.

Jazzy

Joe Pasquale.
its kind of need to know stuff when you follow the big man

CorkMan

Snoop Dogg.

Cos he's cool, he knows how to slap hoes and blow gangstas out the do'.

Fo shizzle.

Fukuyama

www.twitter.com/deansherwin - because he's a legend!

longshanks

Shepherd, not sheep

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Nobody, because twitter is retarded...

Zascar

Carlee Tangy Anger wrote: »

Nobody, because twitter is retarded...

Ugh, there's always one... Twitter is a phenomenal success, over 100 million people like and use it for a multitude of applications. I just don't get these twitter/facebook haters. "I don't understand something so I'll say I hate it and live in ignorance" :rolleyes:

Twitter is as good as you make it. If all you want to follow is celebrities and idiots, then it will be retarded, but there are plenty of really interesting people and organisations to follow - and its a fantastic way to consume information.

Azureus

Still havent cottoned on to the Twitter thing myself...

People were raving bout Stephen Frys, so I started following him, still didnt get it.

Ill stick to QI

phantom_lord

Carlee Tangy Anger wrote: »

Nobody, because twitter is retarded...

I couldn't understand the appeal and thought it was just for nerds, but started using it recently and find it really handy, especially for breaking news events. And also just for filling the odd few minutes gap in the day.

Cupcake_Crisis

Mainly friends, so we can talk crap to each other. Theres a few Boardsies on there! A load of comedians for a laugh, wildcat in case they have any promotions.

Everyone should add me on Twitter...i'm really interesting....i swear!

Fight_Night

Cast of Glee, for obvious reasons.

50 cent, because I usually get a laugh out of what he says even if it isn't supposed to be funny.

Mark Hoppus because he posts all the time.

scudzilla

Mainly MMA fighters to get the news, apart from them guys i have the following :-


Kerry Katona & Jordan, cos they're thick as fcuk and always highly entertaining

Gary Busey, He's just a complate lunatic and some of the shiit he comes out with is awesome

Joe Rogan, another funny as fcuk guy

Jaxxy

Danny DeVito. He's ****ing insane.

AnonoBoy

Dean0088 wrote: »

www.twitter.com/deansherwin - because he's a legend!

His website is shocking though! Have you seen it!

Shocking!

Donal Og O Baelach

I used to follow Miriam O' Callaghan.
But then she called the Gaurds.
(btch)

Penn

Goddamn Batman
Diana In Heaven
The Big Sam
Kevin Smith
And most British/Irish comedians like Jimmy Carr, Dara O'Briain, Rob Brydon etc

As someone said before, Twitter is what you make of it. It passes the time, you can get some news pretty quickly for it, people and celebs sharing links to funny or interesting things. Why is that stupid? Yes, some people use it way too much and write about every little thing they're doing. But you don't have to. You don't have to write anything. And if someone is writing too much, you don't have to follow them.

Besides, Boards.ie is on Twitter, so it must be cool! Right?

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Zascar wrote: »

Ugh, there's always one... Twitter is a phenomenal success, over 100 million people like and use it for a multitude of applications. I just don't get these twitter/facebook haters. "I don't understand something so I'll say I hate it and live in ignorance" :rolleyes:

Twitter is as good as you make it. If all you want to follow is celebrities and idiots, then it will be retarded, but there are plenty of really interesting people and organisations to follow - and its a fantastic way to consume information.

The only thing I hear, in the media, about twitter is the tripe that "celebs" spout. Who says what type of crap is the retarded part of twitter. It's pointless and yet a pletora of imbocils follow this rubbish for some reason or another.

Nobodies contesting it's success. You will find it's success is founded on people "following" celebs to find out sensless crap about them. They become like gods. It's hilarious.

Azureus

Demi Moore/Ashton Kutchers Twitter is probably what makes me dislike the whole concept. It seems to be constant self-indulgent crap that nobody apart fromt heir die-hard fans would ever care about it, yet its in the news! (granted not the very reputable news but news nonetheless).

I might give it another go with some of the pages listed on here.

Aldebaran

Simon Pegg, Graham Linehan, Peter Serafinawicz, and the cast of Community would be a few of my favourites. Following a few Irish journalists and politicians too, twitter is great for keeping track of stuff relating to the upcoming election. Also, the twitter feed for the Late Late Show is far more entertaining than the show itself.

I find that people who call twitter 'retarded' do so because they don't know how to use it.

ascanbe

scudzilla wrote: »

Mainly MMA fighters to get the news, apart from them guys i have the following :-


Kerry Katona & Jordan, cos they're thick as fcuk and always highly entertaining

Gary Busey, He's just a complate lunatic and some of the shiit he comes out with is awesome

Joe Rogan, another funny as fcuk guy

If anyone can overcome the limits of the format and truly express themselves, it'll be him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9pmuG_Wqz8

Penn

Mickey_Rourke is crazy on Twitter too. Dunno if it's really him, but here's a selection of his tweets:

My only resolution this year was to not jump a speedboat into an orphanage and I've already failed miserably.

Throwing open the curtain this morning, it dawned on me that I slept in a photobooth again. According to these photos, I now have hepatitis.

On trash day I love doing that thing where you leap from the bin and jokingly demand the garbage man's wallet. And then take it. Jokingly.

PogMoThoin

http://twitter.com/#!/HomerJSimpson
http://twitter.com/#!/Lord_Stewie

Rowley Birkin QC

Irish Times.
The Onion.
RTE_Elections.
Stephen Fry.
Couple of tech blogs (Gizmodo, Androidica etc.)
Newsthump (English version of The Onion)
Al Jazeera Breaking News.

Used to think that it was pretty stupid but now it's my main source of news. It's a widget on my Android device.

Set it up for my dad on his iPhone4 lately and he is a convert. It's an awful load of arse on the iPhone though due to the lack of a widget.

johnmcdnl

Zascar wrote: »

Ugh, there's always one... Twitter is a phenomenal success, over 100 million people like and use it for a multitude of applications. I just don't get these twitter/facebook haters. "I don't understand something so I'll say I hate it and live in ignorance" :rolleyes:

twitter has 190 million signed up users - how many are active - doesn't mean there's 100 million users and very unlikely there is

I for example signed up too see what the fuss was about - didn't like it - though it was crap - rarely use it at all now but I'm still considered a user

how many "ACTIVE" users has it got and how many of the 65 million tweets a day are by people who tweet 20 times a day??

I don't like it at all but I can see why some people like it but I can say I tried it..

just don't see the point in it really - I have no interest in celeb gossip so I couldn't care less what some famous person is after eating for breakfast..

just not my cup of tea at all but if you like it you like it

Oh_Noes

Zascar wrote: »

Ugh, there's always one... Twitter is a phenomenal success, over 100 million people like and use it for a multitude of applications. .

Ugh, there's always a 100 million.

It's just another fad and is about as phenomenal as me arse.

temply

50 cent steve martin are very funny & the scraps between Piers Morgan and Alan Sugar are very entertaining.

silvervixen84

I follow lots of news sources, magazines, some boardsies, a few bloggers and webcomics and then a mixed bunch of celebs like Kat Von D, Rio Ferdinand, Simon Pegg, Piers Morgan, Lord Sugar, Seth McFarlane, Shawn Michaels, Mick Foley, Chris Jericho, Nikki Sixx, Dylan Moran, Corey Taylor, Charlie Brooker, Dara O'Briain, Will Wheaton and many more!

a few funny ones of note:

DeathStarPR
holymoly
Rabblereviver
thebrieparty
cracked

mikemac

Too many to list, Adam Schefter from ESPN is a good one. He's great for breaking NFL stories
I know other reporters too

The journal.ie isn't bad either, they take stories from different sources. I never read the website but handy for updates

Carlee Tangy Anger wrote: »

The only thing I hear, in the media, about twitter is the tripe that "celebs" spout. Who says what type of crap is the retarded part of twitter. It's pointless and yet a pletora of imbocils follow this rubbish for some reason or another.

Twitter is what you make of it.
If you follow the best journalists and reporters, you get the breaking news.
Follow celebs and you get rubbish.

I dismissed it for a long time and then I found how to get it to work for me

rebel10

Azureus wrote: »

Demi Moore/Ashton Kutchers Twitter is probably what makes me dislike the whole concept. It seems to be constant self-indulgent crap that nobody apart fromt heir die-hard fans would ever care about it, yet its in the news! (granted not the very reputable news but news nonetheless).

I might give it another go with some of the pages listed on here.

I see what you did there, very clever!;)

temply

also amusing for drunken tweets and things celebs might say in the heat of the moment without the guidance of a pr

DMG_49

Its finding good people to follow, thats why I posted this thread.

I don't know???

RonMexico

Benicio Del Toro started tweeting yesterday. Sent him a message and he replied. Got a notification earlier that he is now following my twitter account. :eek:

temply

RonMexico wrote: »

Benicio Del Toro started tweeting yesterday. Sent him a message and he replied. Got a notification earlier that he is now following my twitter account. :eek:

:eek:

is it a verified account?

mikemac

johnmcdnl wrote: »

just don't see the point in it really - I have no interest in celeb gossip so I couldn't care less what some famous person is after eating for breakfast..

just not my cup of tea at all but if you like it you like it

But you aren't realy using it.
It's not just about celebrity gossip.

Do you know any reporters/journalists or organizations you think are good?
Even if you don't, have you a favourite sports team and want the breaking news?
And even then, you can use it for travel updates, like the AA on traffic.
I haven't listed one tenth of the possibilities

It's your job to make it work for you.
Not just dismiss it as celeb gossip

3hn2givr7mx1sc

A load of Man United and football in general journalists/bloggers - recent UNited news without having to trawl through websites and there does be interesting articles from the bloggers.
Cast of Jersey Shore - epic program.:cool:
Good few MMA fighters and writers - keep up to date with MMA.
Boston Globe sports reporters - I follow the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics and Bruins so it's handy to keep up to date with them.
And a few friends and Boardsies.

phasers

I'm following Frada, Dr. B, OutlawPete and Brummytom

One time Boards was down and everyone was over there...

mikemac

RonMexico wrote: »

Benicio Del Toro started tweeting yesterday. Sent him a message and he replied. Got a notification earlier that he is now following my twitter account. :eek:

Could be a fake.

American football quarterback Joe Flacco was following me.
I was gutted when I learned it was a fake account

NeedaNewName

DMG_49 wrote: »

People on twitter....

Who are you following and why?

E.g Following Apple, so I know about updates/ new ipad etc.

FFS I came here to start a thread like this! You stole my thread OP!

I follow news and info sites mostly. I use tweetdeck and follow certain hastags too. #Egypt #ge11 etc

I find it a great news resource, faster than most other news sources. Also stuff like the Ray Shah thing today can be interesting. Man is he slightly fubar'd

I am also nerdlyishly watch the ipv4 countdown! Been watching it since 55 million were left, a couple of weeks ago. Now below 5 million :eek:

BrianJD

I follow the pro golfers Westwood, McDowell, Poulter and McIlroy. The piss taking they have with each other is very funny. Also, several Arsenal Players and Rio Ferdinand. Moncrieff and Fry as well.

It's funny how ordinary some of these celebrity lives are. As has been said, it just passes a few minutes a day and can be a laugh.

Mr Benevolent

I'm following no-one. Twitter is very, very sad.

FreudianSlippers

Summer Glau for obvious reasons.

RonMexico

feelingstressed wrote: »

Could be a fake.

American football quarterback Joe Flacco was following me.
I was gutted when I learned it was a fake account

Could be a fake, though Empire magazine said that it is genuine.

Creamy Goodness

yorema

davetherave

American Football:
JeremyShockey, Jmack37, gregolsen82, JayCutler6, AdamSchefter,ESPN NFL Insider, Jknox13, MattForte22, GreenWaveFB, nflcommish, richeisen, D_Hest23, BradBiggs, footballFacts, nflnetwork, ProFootballTalk, ndamukong_suh, NFLPlayersUnion, nfllabor and a few others.

Funnies:
chilean_miner, Explosm, TheOnion, brocode, ConanOBrien, manvszombies, mistakesmenmake

Other randoms:
BarackObama,IrishAirCorps, defenceforces, NationalGuard, IrishRail, USFOR_A.

brummytom

phasers wrote: »

I'm following Frada, Dr. B, OutlawPete and Brummytom

One time Boards was down and everyone was over there...

Ahhh


/wipes tear... Good times


Haven't been on there since, you couldn't tell me what my address for it is, could you? :pac:

NeedaNewName

I came here to start a similar thread OP! Damn you!

I follow info tweets mostly. I find I get the news much faster than any other way. I use TweetDeck so I follow hash tags like #Egypt, #ge11 and #IPcalypse (About one more day left for available ipv4 addresses!! Nerdylicious!)

Plus you get things like the Ray Shah saga earlier today. Poor sap!

starbelgrade

Zascar wrote: »

Ugh, there's always one... Twitter is a phenomenal success, over 100 million people like and use it for a multitude of applications. I just don't get these twitter/facebook haters. "I don't understand something so I'll say I hate it and live in ignorance" :rolleyes:

Twitter is as good as you make it. If all you want to follow is celebrities and idiots, then it will be retarded, but there are plenty of really interesting people and organisations to follow - and its a fantastic way to consume information.

It's a poor man's Boards is all it is.

Sure I'm not even on it, so it must be shite.

3hn2givr7mx1sc

Confab wrote: »

I'm following no-one. Twitter is very, very sad.

And you are very, very cool.

orourkeda

Zascar wrote: »

Ugh, there's always one... Twitter is a phenomenal success, over 100 million people like and use it for a multitude of applications. I just don't get these twitter/facebook haters. "I don't understand something so I'll say I hate it and live in ignorance" :rolleyes:

Twitter is as good as you make it. If all you want to follow is celebrities and idiots, then it will be retarded, but there are plenty of really interesting people and organisations to follow - and its a fantastic way to consume information.

Or twitbook as we like to call it

orourkeda

brummytom wrote: »

Ahhh


/wipes tear... Good times


Haven't been on there since, you couldn't tell me what my address for it is, could you? :pac:

Twittytom

Sanjuro

Despite having 'lost it' in the last few... decades, Steve Martin's tweets alone are worth having a twitter app.

Also, Stephen Colbert.