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Postby Metalchemyst » Sat May 25, 2019 11:30 am

Do you use it much? How do you feel about it?
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Re: Twitter

Postby WorMzy » Sat May 25, 2019 6:40 pm

Completely pointless website. It annoys me when websites (especially news websites) integrate it into their pages, and I find it especially annoying when somebody writes an essay on it. If you have to split your message into seven parts, then you're using the wrong website to convey your message.
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Re: Twitter

Postby metaldinosaur » Sat May 25, 2019 10:25 pm

Don't use it myself. I always thought of it as a less well policed version of facebook, but as they seem to have started to censor it more it seems, indeed, rather pointless.
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Re: Twitter

Postby Kanwulf » Mon May 27, 2019 7:23 am

I probably use it more than Facebook these days, mainly for football news reasons.
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Re: Twitter

Postby Tet » Thu May 30, 2019 3:10 pm

WorMzy wrote:If you have to split your message into seven parts, then you're using the wrong website to convey your message.

Very much this. It's a terrible platform for virtually anything. Microblogging is a horrible fad, and people are having to find way around that (splitting a post over multiple messages, posting images of text to get around the character limit, etc). There are no sensible tools for searching, threading, filtering or many other things. But at the same time, even if the platform is horrible, the value of a social media platform comes from the people using it. And there are a lot of people using Twitter, which gives it some value.
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Re: Twitter

Postby Ghost » Sat Jun 01, 2019 7:20 pm

I never signed up to it but went through a stage of reading what people were tweeting about and it just makes you end up hating humanity. It's unhealthy. None of it makes sense. Like someone like Piers Morgan will purposely tweet something controversial then you'll get a hundred people arguing about it.....like why bother. Why would you argue on behalf of a celebrity.
It's quite funny to read twitter whilst watching naked attraction though ha ha.
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Re: Twitter

Postby Metalchemyst » Sun Jun 02, 2019 5:52 pm

I used to think forums distorted communication but Twitter is much worse. It seems designed to bring out the worst in human nature and is full of people making snap judgements.
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Re: Twitter

Postby houston4044 » Tue Jun 04, 2019 8:38 pm

Just seems like a place for celebs to fight with each other, Trump to go off on one and the odd decent meme.

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Re: Twitter

Postby Metalgal » Fri Jun 21, 2019 8:19 pm

Blake_Porter wrote:I probably use it more than Facebook these days, mainly for football news reasons.


If you use it alot can you tell me what Twitter pegging is? :) My mates mention it and I feel so behind the times as I don't even have a Twitter account
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Re: Twitter

Postby Metalchemyst » Sun Jun 23, 2019 9:06 am

Metalgal wrote:
Blake_Porter wrote:I probably use it more than Facebook these days, mainly for football news reasons.

If you use it alot can you tell me what Twitter pegging is? :) My mates mention it and I feel so behind the times as I don't even have a Twitter account
It just seems to be a Twitter hashtag on that subject. I'm not going to investigate further!
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Re: Twitter

Postby Kanwulf » Sun Jun 30, 2019 1:22 pm

Metalgal wrote:
Blake_Porter wrote:I probably use it more than Facebook these days, mainly for football news reasons.


If you use it alot can you tell me what Twitter pegging is? :) My mates mention it and I feel so behind the times as I don't even have a Twitter account


I'm only 9 days late with this, but yeah, what Metalchemyst said.
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Re: Twitter

Postby Metalchemyst » Mon Jul 15, 2019 9:55 pm

Varg V. was banned from YouTube and has now surfaced on Twitter as Gandalf the White :)

https://twitter.com/GandalftheWhi19
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Re: Twitter

Postby Gandalf the Red » Mon Jul 15, 2019 11:48 pm

My brother!

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Funnily enough I was going to use that moniker on here when I first signed up and someone already had it. Gandalf was also taken.
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Re: Twitter

Postby Black Wizard » Tue Jul 16, 2019 2:26 pm

Gandalf the Red wrote:My brother!

:lol:


Funnily enough I was going to use that moniker on here when I first signed up and someone already had it. Gandalf was also taken.

There is a band called Gandalf the Green: https://gandalfthegreen.bandcamp.com/

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Re: Twitter

Postby Metalgal » Sat Aug 10, 2019 11:29 pm

Metalchemyst wrote:Varg V. was banned from YouTube and has now surfaced on Twitter as Gandalf the White :)

https://twitter.com/GandalftheWhi19


How can someone get banned from YouTube considering the ammount of junk that's on there!
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