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Ask YC: Why should I care about Twitter?

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Re: Ask YC: Why should I care about Twitter?

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Post by dr1ft »

the1pato wrote: post #4
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #2

its a non-intrusive way of sharing statuses.

The status updates are sent to your phone/mobile device, though. Here you are, reading news.YC, and buzz ... Stephanie doesn't like what she just had for lunch. That's not a little bit intrusive?

Ummm...Do you use twitter? That is wrong. If you want updates on your phone then you can turn them on. If you don't then it is trivially easy to turn off all phone updates or set it up so that you only get updates on your phone during certain hours. That doesn't sound intrusive to me.

Re: Ask YC: Why should I care about Twitter?

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Post by xenoterracide »

I personally don't think you should. I myself find 'social networking' to be a large waste of time.

people like to play silly games, and change things like mood, or the music they are playing.

the social notice I want? was the phone call I got a 7am a few weeks ago a friend telling me her fiance and my former room-mate had died.

or how about a text saying, "wanna meet for lunch?"

I haven't used twitter, but the whole social thing seems a waste of time. I have better things to be doing, like building a business, or school, or finding a job to help me pay the bills in the mean time.

Re: Ask YC: Why should I care about Twitter?

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Post by senthil_rajasek »

the1pato wrote: post #4
senthil_rajasek wrote: post #2

its a non-intrusive way of sharing statuses.

The status updates are sent to your phone/mobile device, though. Here you are, reading news.YC, and buzz ... Stephanie doesn't like what she just had for lunch. That's not a little bit intrusive?

SMS updates to your phone is optional besides as I once "tweeted" - "brevity is the soul of tWITter"

Re: Ask YC: Why should I care about Twitter?

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Post by justindz »

Twitter has an extremely low barrier of entry and it's so off-the-cuff that it's a great place to non-blog without cluttering your blog with stuff that's less topically relevant or more random. I find that valuable, though I could live without.

It's not terribly "social" for me yet as only one friend also has an account. People have remarked before that if you live in the valley or work in certain types of companies or communities then you'll get more activity (and, potentially, more disturbance as well).

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