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KahRAmaN
07-20-2009, 03:45 AM
Thanks for this great forum. This is my first post to the forum and I wonder what you people think.

Why people use Twitter? What motivates people to use Twitter? Any ideas? It’s about news or comments?
HotLikeBea
07-20-2009, 04:05 AM
It's Facebook minus everything but status updates. Lots of celebrities and well-known reality stars are on there; I only signed up to stalk Anderson Cooper's updates.
NaziActionFigure
07-20-2009, 06:04 AM
It's Facebook minus everything but status updates. Lots of celebrities and well-known reality stars are on there; I only signed up to stalk Anderson Cooper's updates.
HAHAHA! You too!? I <3 AC, but I was unaware he was on twitter. It seems sort of uncharacteristic. What is it? I've got to see it.

Anyway, I've wondered the same thing. One of my friends told me about his twitter so I checked it out, and it was literally stuff like "Cleanin' out the catbox.LOL."

All the stuff out of Iran is cool, though. And apparantly people who sign up for twitter post once, realize how pointless it is and never return (http://www.slate.com/id/2219995/).
evmo
07-20-2009, 04:15 PM
cause its friggen addictive
SyxxGage
07-20-2009, 04:17 PM
Because they are sheep
ciwi286
07-20-2009, 07:52 PM
I started to just follow people...then you post once and people follow you. You either never post again or it snowballs and you start posting more and more often.
Wra1th13
07-20-2009, 08:31 PM
Because actually stalking celebrities in real life is too hard.
MoveyFilmP
07-20-2009, 09:03 PM
Honestly I don't understand it, its just dumb. I just see it as a giant advertising gimmick. Facebook is much better.
MoveyFilmP
07-20-2009, 09:05 PM
I do not know why anybody cares what a celeb is doing each and everyday. Live your life don't read others lives.
evmo
07-20-2009, 09:54 PM
the person above me has much to learn about teh interwebz
sonnyfromda02
07-21-2009, 11:25 AM
I started to just follow people...then you post once and people follow you. You either never post again or it snowballs and you start posting more and more often.
I fell into the trap.
klick123
07-21-2009, 03:44 PM
Friends move away.
Twitter doesn't.
RubberSoul28
07-21-2009, 03:50 PM
I think Twitter's pretty great. You get to read about a lot of interesting people, get reccomedations for novels, films, etc.