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

[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 ; ;)