Anyone use twitter for D?

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Nick Sabalausky" <a at a.a> wrote in message 
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> "Jarrett Billingsley" <jarrett.billingsley at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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>> On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 12:17 AM, John Reimer <terminal.node at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>> Hello Nick,
>>>
>>>> "Walter Bright" <newshound1 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
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>>>>
>>>>> I started one to see how that works out for D.
>>>>> http://twitter.com/WalterBright
>>>>>
>>>> Call me a curmudgeon, but does anyone ever read twitters? They seem to
>>>> be enormously popular to write, though I've never understood why.
>>>> (Maybe I'm just not a "web 2.0" kind of guy -> I've never cared for
>>>> social networking sites, either.)
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I find it odd too and fail to see why the fad attracts people. I'm 
>>> guessing
>>> that the popularity of it is due the attraction the idea has for certain
>>> personality types: something like an opportunity for the less expressive 
>>> to
>>> express themselves free of the obligations rigour (no more thought to
>>> choosing words carefully, I suppose).  In the manner of blogs, maybe 
>>> people
>>> just like talking about themselves... only twitter seems to take it once
>>> step further, where the reader is entertained with decidedly less 
>>> thought
>>> provoking material.  I just don't get it.  Maybe I should /not/ be 
>>> looking
>>> at twitter as an information resource.  But if it's just a way people 
>>> can
>>> connect with one another to let each other know they are there, then all
>>> they really need is a flashy red or green light.  Add to that a beeping
>>> noise for extra effect.
>>>
>>> The other alternative is that it's just yet another "marketing" scheme 
>>> that
>>> has succeeded in making people think that it's the "thing to do".   I'm 
>>> sure
>>> facebook fans would eat this one up. :)
>>>
>>> The last option is that I'm just a boring killjoy that doesn't get it. I
>>> dunno ;).
>>> But I'm sure this isn't the last clever idea to make it's rounds on the
>>> internet.
>>
>> I found this article pretty interesting, at least as far as an insight
>> into what some people see in Twitter and similar services.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/6ng7tg
>
> Only read the first couple pages of that, but that's kind of interesting. 
> The description of "like a social gazette from the 18th century", seems to 
> really make it all "click": both why it's so popular and why I find myself 
> not interested.  The stuff on the second page makes it sound like a 
> primitive version of (and here I go into scifi-geek territory) a borg-like 
> mental link (minus the imperialistic tendencies). Seems to make for a 
> potential antidote to the claims some people make about computer 
> technology driving people apart. Also interesting from a marketing 
> standpoint: giving people what they don't realize they want. I'm still 
> perfectly content remaining on the sidelines for this stuff, though.

"Virtual roomate" might be an appropriate term.