Comments on: I'm officially dropping out of the Twitter gab fest

Don't know about you, but I'm thoroughly bored by the daily exegesis that attends even the smallest, most trivial "news" surrounding Twitter.

[Triconium]

There is a lot of shortsightedness in many of these comments. I don't expect everyone to take to Twitter. Twitter isn't for everyone just as Facebook isn't for everyone. For myself, and many of my friends, Twitter has proven incredibly useful at connecting people.

To each his own.

[fjpoblam]

write on!

[cmseeholzer]

its quite sad what twitter has become.

[philwbass]

You really need to read this:
http://www.stevelawson.net/wordpress/2009/03/twitter-sucks-so-change-your-friends/

Twitter's a tool, you can use it badly or use it well - it's like an adjunct to email

This is how I use it:
http://philwbass.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/i-love-twitter/

Some companies use it successfully in business by using specific business twitter accounts for staff and that works really well but there are many ways to use or abuse it - it's just a medium.

[webstarcool]

I'd have to agree. Twitter is just plain boring. Name it Titter and I might have a look.

Here's a msg < 140 characters - "About to take a dump".

[Robert-The-Soviet]

Thanks for posting a news story about nothing; like we cared if you are going to write about twitter or not.

[stefanbp]

I don't really see the utility of Twitter --- yet --- but I see a lot of press hype about it... making me wonder if the press hype is just hype. Cooper's decision to step back and not write about Twitter seems well reasoned --- when people are 'tweeting' in a manner that is more significant to me, then I will get more interested. Maybe if I were into marketing and was interested in data mining, the content of these millions of messages on what people are doing at this exact moment in time would represent useful info, but as an individual, I don't yet see the utility. Back in the dot com boom, we saw a lot of journalists get starry eyed over e-anything and hype won out over utility until the crash, after which it seemed that the same media that had been hyping the dot com boom started saying,"how could you be so foolish, America?"
I don't think technology is interesting for what it is, but rather for what it can do for people. There may be one million people who want to follow a given celebrities "tweets," but I am not yet one of them. Being able to email my friends who live far away is great; getting spam from strangers is not so good.
I love the promise of technology, but when we spend 24-7 "plugged in," sometimes I just want to go for a walk, pet a dog, read a book, have a sit-down conversation with someone or do something else that doesn't involve a technology intermediary.

[codynews]

Yeah, I'm so tired of twitter news. I can't wait till that stupid site goes away... or at least the media slobbering over it goes away.

Cody

[gefitz]

The number of uses for twitter may be high. But the number of uses for twitter that anyone gives a damn about is such a tiny percentage of the total....

Of course, people said that about the internet too at one point. But at least can we please wait to gush over its potential until someone...ANYONE?!?!....makes a good commercial use of it?

[gopnick]

Twitter is for self-obsessed ****** bags.

And everyone left...

I agree with Coop, I don't see the relevance of Twitter. Who cares that I'm scratching my a$$ at 6am or eating my Frosted Flakes an hour later. I see it more as something for those who are not "in" to suddenly be part of the "in" crowd. So now one can say "Ashton Kutcher is on my Twitter list!". Big deal I know a famous baseball player that doesn't mean I get to call him whenever I like or demand favors from him.

Get a life folks. Try increasing your Vitamin D quotient and do something meaningful like getting involved with neighborhood youth or something. You'll find it far more rewarding than waiting for "Mr. I'm famous and you're not" to tell you he's taking a dump after eating his way through a celebrity model or two.

[shanedr]

Dropping out? I never dropped in. I've never understood why anyone would go to that site, let alone post. Whenever I get some free time I've overjoyed to simply vegetate. This is as close as I'll ever get to twitting.

[Stanh24]

The ultimate in trivial pursuit, and a waste of bandwidth.