twitter feeds...bwa?

[gategrrl]

I'm seeing these more often on my flist. And I scratch my head at them. What's the point of all these tiny little updates that don't say anything? And they're all time-stamped, too.

Trying to parse them out. I guess it keeps the flist from getting flooded with miniposts?

Comments

[superbadgirl]

I don't get Twitter, period. Seriously, it's like advocating we all shorten our attention spans even further.

[szeretni.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I agree with this. :)

[fantasyecho.livejournal.com]

I third the statement.

[khek.livejournal.com]

I don't get it either.

[jomadge.livejournal.com]

Ditto!

[aizjanika.livejournal.com]

As I mentioned below, I can see the purpose of liveblogging or Twitter for something like the setlist of a concert for other fans who are waiting online for that info, but in general? I don't see the point of it either. Much of what I see seems like listening in on someone else's private conversation and I have no context even if I was interested, which I'm not.

Also, if you're texting stuff to Twitter from your cell phone during an event, you're not watching/participating/enjoying. I tried this during the David Cook concert. I posted a few things before the concert and during intermission, but after that? I was not going to sit there with my cell phone out while I was trying to watch the show. I felt kind of bad, though, because maybe 50 people followed me because I posted my info, and they got nothing from me except a few pics I posted later that night to make up for the lack of info.

I follow a lot of people on Twitter, mostly just to be polite because they follow (friended) me. I hardly ever look at it, because it's always a bunch of random comments that don't make sense out of context. Nialla mentioned something about a "trackback," but I'd never even heard of that until just now.

The only Twitters (tweets?) I find interesting are from this one guy who is a producer of a TV show (a show I don't even watch). At least he's doing interesting things and posting behind-the-scenes pics and things like that. It's a slight bit of insight into that world, but I wonder how he gets any work done if he's always tweeting and uploading pictures.

I wish people would stop posting these tweets to LJ, though.