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Can someone explain how twitter works?

And follow it by explaining what it is all about? By now I think can understand Facebook, but the purpose of Twitter goes above my head.

*Lunatic*, n.
One whose delusions are out of fashion.

by DoDo on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 01:23:40 PM EST
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Well Twitter is just the stripped down news feed of facebook, you get to follow who you like, so for instance,I follow a pile of news stations,  amongst others, so am getting a pile of Live news as it happens. So see it as a combined RSS feed/24 hour news channel/comment source.

I may be biassed though as I won a book from it this afternoon so may be feeling unduly positive about the service.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 01:50:00 PM EST
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Y'know all the short pithy statements on Facebook that people make in between posting pictures and videos and sorting their friends making event pages an' stuff. Well, twitter is just all that junk, only that junk.

think of a dKos comment thread. With really stupid people.

keep to the Fen Causeway

by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 01:50:17 PM EST
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think of a dKos comment thread. With really stupid people.

Clearly carried out by the Department of Redundancy Department. :)

Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 01:58:44 PM EST
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Now now. they may have a higher signal to noise ratio than here but their hearts are mostly in the right place.

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 02:00:43 PM EST
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...and naturally demonstrating my contribution to the noise end of the debate, that'd be a lower signal to noise ratio...

keep to the Fen Causeway
by Helen (lareinagal at yahoo dot co dot uk) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 02:01:50 PM EST
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Awwwwww. (No one believes you.)

Nosemonkey's Twittering is funny, though. A creative use of the medium.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 03:05:57 PM EST
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No, no.

DKos comments don't fit in the 160 characters of a text message. If only...

En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Nov 3rd, 2009 at 03:38:36 PM EST
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