You got your twitter in my google! You got your google in my twitter!

[thistlechaser]

I have an unending, and somewhat irrational, hatred of Twitter. If you like it, if you use it, that's 100% fine and dandy with me... I'd just rather not have to get involved with it.

So imagine my surprise when I googled something and the third result was a "live feed" from Twitter. A little window in the middle of my results with tweets updating in it.

BLAH! GAH! BLECH! Go away!

*googles (ironically enough)* Apparently this isn't new, funny this is my first time coming across it. I use Google endlessly.

Comments

[achika-soladia.livejournal.com]

I've somewhat fallen off the face of Twitter and LJ lately, because I live a boring life anymore. Though I'm considering making a new parody attempt on my LJ coming soon...

I've kinda been in the Facebook thing though. I have nothing to say short enough for Twitter, but nothing long enough for LJ. XD

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm with you! I so rarely post now because my life is boring. Boring, I tell you!

[teslanomaly]

Oh, thank God! I'm glad I'm not the only one who's irrationally irritated by Twitter! Even the name drives me crazy. To me, it seems to imply mindless chattering - or talking just to fill up the silence. Marketing fail?

I don't rag on it much, because I don't want to upset friends who love it. I have been that person who loves Facebook and is in a room with a bunch of people irrationally badmouthing it, and it's a lousy feeling.

So for any Twitterers reading this comment, please know I don't mean this as a personal judgment on YOU. But, to share with you, Thistle: I really dislike it when Twitter feeds pop up on my LJ lists or when they get posted on Facebook status messages. (My newest irritation is that Twitter has now been optionally added to the Google Buzz feeds.)

I wish there were a way I could block Twitter messages from these venues, but so far while the sites offer an option for Twitterers to *display* posts, there seems to be no option for non-Twitterers to *omit* posts. I now have to scroll through a dozen messages that mean nothing personally: '@Thistle LOL THAT WAS GREAT' or -- I don't even know what the pound signs mean, but the point is, it's information that is often personally directed in reply to someone else. A text-message would really spare me scanning those lines!

I would politely ask that all Twitter users consider not cross-posting to Facebook, LJ, Buzz, etc - those of us who don't want to be tweety would really appreciate it!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

To me, it seems to imply mindless chattering - or talking just to fill up the silence. Marketing fail?

No, I think mindless chatter and talking just to talk is the entire purpose of the sites format isn't it? Cause it certainly doesn't have a point that I can see.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Totally agreed on the name! It makes it sound pointless and annoying -- meaningless noise, like birds chirping on your fence.

And yeah, I try not to comment on it much, and it's certainly not a personal attack on anyone. The site doesn't work for ME personally, so I don't use it! Problem solved!

So long as people who "crosspost" (crosstwitter?) to LJ put it behind a cut, I don't mind too much -- LJ cuts solve everything for me!

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Ya I saw this once a couple days ago, I was highly confused because it was a google on just a simple word that I was looking for some information on so I was using google to get to the wiki page and it had the twitter feed and I couldn't help but try and figure out wtf the point of it was.

@Twitter GO AWAY!

I have issues with a bunch of social networking sites as well but that's just because I'm an old man trapped in a 20 year olds body. Damn kids and their baggy pants! Get off my interwebs!

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I'm with you! Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Linkin (spelling?), I dislike all those things.

Get the hell off my lawn, you kids! *waves cane*

[voidmagus.livejournal.com]

Actually, older people seem to love Facebook. My parents, all their coworkers, all their friends - constantly on facebook. I check my account a couple times a week at most. For me, I use it to keep in touch with some friends from highschool. That's about it.

Twitter is everything I despise about facebook and the blog-o-sphere combined - the average person will say absolutely fuck-all 24/7 when given the opportunity.

That said, I have found a single use for twitter. I do a decent amount of investing, as I've been told I'll be managing a considerable amount of finances when I get older, and I'll be expected to do a good job. Besides all the algorithms I run on just pure numbers when analyzing feasibility of a particular investment, I can use various APIs to query Twitter for a particular string (say, a particular stock symbol). A few simple algorithms run across data returned, and I can have a roughly quantified analysis of public sentiment in regards to a stock or fund. It is absolutely astounding how many brokers post their moves to Twitter, and it makes for an excellent guide of what not to do.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow. I would have thought anyone like a broker would NOT post things like that to Twitter. Sheesh...

Actually, older people seem to love Facebook. My parents, all their coworkers, all their friends - constantly on facebook. I check my account a couple times a week at most. For me, I use it to keep in touch with some friends from highschool. That's about it.

Huh! That's interesting! The only thing my mother does "online" is play Scrabble. I'm not certain if she's actually playing online or if the game is just on the computer, she considers both to be the same thing.

[veloxe.livejournal.com]

Damn old people and their bell bottom pants! Get off my interwebs! *shakes cane*

(lulz I can't spell old, so tired ; ;)