Twitter

[Lord Tyrion]

There has been a lot in the news recently about twitter, it has been mentioned in the football thread recently. Mostly negative, rarely good. We have a twitter account at work which a colleague posts on but we keep it focused, no controversial posts.

I'm not on it personally, not tempted to. Is anyone on here on twitter and actually tweet? What are the plus sides of twitter?

 

[Deleted member 21784]

There has been a lot in the news recently about twitter, it has been mentioned in the football thread recently. Mostly negative, rarely good. We have a twitter account at work which a colleague posts on but we keep it focused, no controversial posts.

I'm not on it personally, not tempted to. Is anyone on here on twitter and actually tweet? What are the plus sides of twitter?

Most of my news comes from Twitter now it's more up to date than news websites and can find many different stories on the situations

Great for sports to get live scores etc

Contacting companies via Twitter gets a far quicker reply aswell

 

[Dan2501]

I use it as a news source mainly, which it is pretty handy for, news typically breaks there before anywhere else. I feel like Social Media has almost had it's time in some respects. Facebook is dying a death, Twitter is becoming more and more toxic, Instagram is just full of wannabe models and #ads, the medium has peaked and I think people are getting tired of it. Still used by huge numbers, but I can see that dwindling over the next few years.

 

[bobmac]

Most things are fine in moderation.

 

[Tongo]

I use twitter for cricket stuff and to promote my blog pieces. From that point of view it is useful and you can reach a decent sized audience but the negative side of things never feels too far away if you are not careful.

 

[Beezerk]

I had an account a couple of years ago, it only took me a few weeks to get bored of people posting completely inane stuff "waiting for a train at Crewe" "I need another coffee" and that was me done with it.

 

[Slab]

It’s been downhill since Friends Reunited started

The benefits of a platform like this are clear but vastly outweighed by the frivolous, nonsensical and misuse activity

Pay x to register, limit the number of free posts/retweets etc per day and then charge for additional. that should take care of most of the rot

 

[HomerJSimpson]

I use twitter for cricket stuff and to promote my blog pieces. From that point of view it is useful and you can reach a decent sized audience but the negative side of things never feels too far away if you are not careful.

Pretty much sums up my use of it and my feelings too

 

[bobmac]

I had an account a couple of years ago, it only took me a few weeks to get bored of people posting completely inane stuff "waiting for a train at Crewe" "I need another coffee" and that was me done with it.

I remember the days when people weren't interested in what you had for breakfast

 

[Deleted member 15344]

I’m on Twitter - use it regularly for sports updates , live football , streaming Somerset CC matches , speaking to many people including sporting people , had many a conversation with people like Bumble Lloyd etc - it’s a great news platform but as with any social media it also has trolls and lots of click bait.

Take the recent issue with Andy Robertson - apparently he was getting “abused” on twitter because he account was gone - there has been no proof of the abuse but lots of click bait articles that people leap upon.

But there are loads and loads of people out there who think they can say what they like towards people because twitter etc don’t deal strongly enough with people

And i will have to disagree that they will dwindle and Facebook will die a death - they both evolve and get bigger.

Both used well are excellent social media platforms

 

[Hobbit]

Had an account for a few weeks. Gave it up. Mate uses it a lot, and actually does a fair bit of business through it. I've seen some of the things on his account.... all that money spent on education, and a good percentage of people aren't safe to be let out.

 

[Deleted member 16999]

Just like every social media platform, it’s down to the individual user.

 

[User62651]

There has been a lot in the news recently about twitter, it has been mentioned in the football thread recently. Mostly negative, rarely good. We have a twitter account at work which a colleague posts on but we keep it focused, no controversial posts.

I'm not on it personally, not tempted to. Is anyone on here on twitter and actually tweet? What are the plus sides of twitter?

I'm on it but don't tweet but will click the like button on others tweets.

I only follow 10 twitterers presently - 8 of those are political commentators who are supposed to be neutral (debateable) - A Marr, N Robinson, B Rigby, L Kuennsberg, BBC politics, R Peston, Faisal Islam, Adam Boulton. You get large threads and commentary from just following those - mix of sensible, inane, vitriolic and humourous. Personally looking for clear unbiased mainly political news and opinion (which you rarely get from politicians). These commentators follow all the main players in politics so anything relevant you see. Follow too many however and you'll just get lost unless you've hours to kill.

The trending function gets the odd look - see what's gone viral, can be amusing.

 

[Dan2501]

Take the recent issue with Andy Robertson - apparently he was getting “abused” on twitter because he account was gone - there has been no proof of the abuse but lots of click bait articles that people leap upon.

I saw Tweets live, he was trending during the game, the Daily Mail a couple of them in their article about it, just because Twitter have managed to hide them (which they're getting very good at - hiding stuff they don't want people to see) doesn't mean it didn't happen. You think it's a coincidence that he deleted his Twitter account the night after giving away a penalty?

 

[DeanoMK]

I use it regularly - both tweeting and browsing. Varying uses; football, golf, music & sometimes political gumpf.

I've sent nearly 12k tweets (just checked out of curiosity) most of the time I'm talking/venting to myself but I feel it's a platform more suited to that than fb.

 

[User62651]

I use it regularly - both tweeting and browsing. Varying uses; football, golf, music & sometimes political gumpf.

I've sent nearly 12k tweets (just checked out of curiosity) most of the time I'm talking/venting to myself but I feel it's a platform more suited to that than fb.

Are those 12k original tweets or also retweets?

How many followers do you have resulting from 12k tweets?

 

[DeanoMK]

Are those 12k original tweets or also retweets?

How many followers do you have resulting from 12k tweets?

I would guess it's around 60/40 retweets/original tweets and I've got 750 followers. I can have weeks where I barely use it but then others where I'm very active on there. It's also a great platform for entering competitions, of which I've had a fair few wins

 

[User20204]

I feel like Social Media has almost had it's time in some respects. Facebook is dying a death, Twitter is becoming more and more toxic, Instagram is just full of wannabe models and #ads, the medium has peaked and I think people are getting tired of it. Still used by huge numbers, but I can see that dwindling over the next few years.

Agree with most of that other than it's had it's time and dwindling, you have one possibly two generations that are absolutely hooked on it and won't be weened off. On your other points, Facebook is becoming and old persons thing now, twitter is definitely becoming a place of hate, and again Instagram is just full of posers i.e. Carly Booth etc.

 

[DeanoMK]

Agree with most of that other than it's had it's time and dwindling, you have one possibly two generations that are absolutely hooked on it and won't be weened off. On your other points, Facebook is becoming and old persons thing now, twitter is definitely becoming a place of hate, and again Instagram is just full of posers i.e. Carly Booth etc.

Agree with both of those sentiments. Whilst FB isn't 'dying', it's definitely not captivating the youth like it was - they're much more active on apps like snapchat and TikTok.

Personally I very rarely post on fb anymore - I run my own mobile disco business and in truth, if it wasn't for that I reckon I would have logged out at least a year ago.

I do use instagram regularly, but everything on there is so polished and you have to take it with a pinch of salt in that respect. Again, I'm mainly posting golf related stuff on there.

 

[Bazz]

I love it, and tweet a fair bit. Use it mainly for news and talking to other Wolves fans.

It's been a great help when trying to source away tickets, always spares floating about on there.