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Do you hate twitter?

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  • #32
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Nah...don't hate it. Some chicks have nice pics on their a/c which can be viewed without signing up.
    Couldn't abide a person who checks social media numerous times a day. I understand it's addictive but unless there is something of value being posted, no thanks.


  • #33
    PARlance
    Registered Users Posts: 21,092 ✭✭✭✭PARlance


    I'm an egg.

    Have an account. Never tweeted on it. Pop in the odd time if I need to following something of interest.


  • #34
    HalloweenJack
    Registered Users Posts: 7,050 ✭✭✭HalloweenJack


    It's very simple to avoid Twitter and not get worked up by what people post on there. The ones who do are just as delicate as the 'snowflake'-stereotypes they accuse of ruining Twitter.

    I don't use Twitter and I don't feel like I'm missing out, either positively or negatively. It is what it is. If you don't like it, find something else.


  • #35
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭[Deleted User]


    I don't hate Twitter but I hate stupid people, lots of whom are on Twitter.


  • #36
    Pithythefool
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭Pithythefool


    lazybones32 wrote: »
    Nah...don't hate it. Some chicks have nice pics on their a/c which can be viewed without signing up.
    Couldn't abide a person who checks social media numerous times a day. I understand it's addictive but unless there is something of value being posted, no thanks.

    In all honesty, what on earth of any value could be seen on twitter?


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  • #37
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #38
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,088 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    I wouldn't give a **** about Twitter except for one thing, that its now considered "news" that somebody tweeted something.

    Such a joke, you will have serious news broadcasters taking time to report that "X responded on Twitter", "here are some responses to the news on twitter", "dumbassJones had this to say on twitter when the news broke".

    Imagine 20 years ago Trevor MacDonald saying, "Some guy in a pub had this to say about the main story". It would never have happened, yet now ****ing idiots quote twitter all the time.

    And don't get me started on idiots repeating sports rumors they heard on twitter. "Theres a tweet saying Cantona is going to Madrid!!!". Who gives a ****, might as well say that your Uncle says Cantona is going to Madrid, it would have the same value.


  • #39
    looksee
    Registered Users Posts: 28,012 ✭✭✭✭looksee


    You need a 'meh' option.


  • #40
    Ipso
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    bucketybuck wrote: »
    I wouldn't give a **** about Twitter except for one thing, that its now considered "news" that somebody tweeted something.

    Such a joke, you will have serious news broadcasters taking time to report that "X responded on Twitter", "here are some responses to the news on twitter", "dumbassJones had this to say on twitter when the news broke".

    Imagine 20 years ago Trevor MacDonald saying, "Some guy in a pub had this to say about the main story". It would never have happened, yet now ****ing idiots quote twitter all the time.

    And don't get me started on idiots repeating sports rumors they heard on twitter. "Theres a tweet saying Cantona is going to Madrid!!!". Who gives a ****, might as well say that your Uncle says Cantona is going to Madrid, it would have the same value.


    But don't you love the headlines like "Twitter explodes" or "Twitter eviscerates", usually about some topic that shouldn't be news worthy.


  • #41
    Pithythefool
    Registered Users Posts: 148 ✭✭Pithythefool


    Patww79 wrote: »
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    It wasn't exactly difficult to get these things before twitter in numerous, combined ways.

    But that's a side-effect IMO. Twitter is famous for, and used for, attention seeking whores, wannabe attention whores, and celebrity-obsessed goons who want to feel more important than they actually are or ever will be.

    Of course you could be a cool, laid back dude that's too cool and laid back to care about being a cool, laid back dude. Like everyone else on Twitter, or facebook, they "just" use it for incidental things, its never them :P


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  • #42
    freshpopcorn
    Registered Users Posts: 30,148 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    I like to get local news updates/AA road watch news/etc. I'm not into people having debates/slagging matches on Twitter!


  • #43
    Fann Linn
    Registered Users Posts: 7,770 ✭✭✭Fann Linn


    Pithythefool wrote: »
    In all honesty, what on earth of any value could be seen on twitter?


    The 'Sinn Fein' tweet which changed the course of the Presidential election could be deemed as having some value depending on one's point of view.


  • #44
    OldMrBrennan83
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26,658 ✭✭✭✭OldMrBrennan83


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  • #45
    bucketybuck
    Registered Users Posts: 18,088 ✭✭✭✭bucketybuck


    Ipso wrote: »
    But don't you love the headlines like "Twitter explodes" or "Twitter eviscerates", usually about some topic that shouldn't be news worthy.

    No, I don't.

    I'd be happy for Twitter and its users to work away, tweet all they want, no skin off my nose. Just stop pretending that its news or is in anyway important.


  • #46
    lazybones32
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,647 ✭✭✭lazybones32


    Pithythefool wrote: »
    In all honesty, what on earth of any value could be seen on twitter?
    ..."some chicks having nice pics on their a/c..."


  • #47
    dublinman1990
    Registered Users Posts: 8,299 ✭✭✭dublinman1990


    I use it mainly for updates in traditional news, broadcasting, movies & TV shows. It's very good for those uses.

    Although I do not login to Twitter to see them because I don't have to obtain an account. I just read the tweets offline & will be grand afterwards.

    If you limit your use on Twitter for things that interest you. That is fine too. Nobody cares otherwise if you want to avoid the vacuous sh1te.


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