Here’s a great, little (but very funny) clip about Twitter from Dailymotion titled, Twouble With Twitter. I took a lot of it personally, which probably speaks to how true it is.
(hat tip: Virginia)
Taming The Twitter Beast
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My sentiments exactly. I have no use at all for personal tweets.
However I could see myself signing up for a twitter feed of traffic or weather reports. Or online marketing trends and updates 😉
This is hilarious!
“don’t you twitterstand?”
I just signed up a few weeks ago after our creative director set up a corporate profile for us. I haven’t really used it much, but I do think Twitter has some inherent value. I like how focused & simplistic it is. I think they could do a better job of designing more of a “fill in the blank” type of interface to describe what ones “status” is at any given moment, but overall I think its pretty cool how successful they’ve been by basically creating a whole site around what is essentially your Facebook status.
Another non sense thing to consume and make poeple feel better.
It is pathetic…get a life
You can watch the original on current.com
http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm
That’s so funny. I just connected MY bong boing my Fling Flong to my RSS Twinkle… and for the record I too don’t believe the Tw-Hype.
“FRIENDS DON’T JUST SHOUT IN TO THE DARKNESS AND HOPE SOMEONE’S LISTENING!!!!!!!!!!”
Twitterific video Mr. Joel. And no, I have not bought a house yet 😉
I have been trying to figure out the use of twitter as this video pretty much sums up my sentiments. The only exception are some of the news feeds or people who add interesting content (like you) – otherwise I could care less…
brilliant …twitter’s a great information resource and a valuable personal learning network, if only people wouldn’t constantly pollute the twitosphere with inane and trivial life details… if someone’s tweeting every 10 minutes, they have a problem – get help …and maybe a dog….
PS – awesome blog, podcasts and tweets – thx for sharing!
While the video pokes fun at Twitter, you can tell it is someone who has spent a fair bit of time there who has written it (especially with the fail whale references and some of the visuals).
It’s good to laugh at ourselves once in a while.
Cheers!
Your imaginary Twitter friend Connie
This video only gets part of the Twitter phenomenon. I find that what all of these applications do is connect people. Whether it’s the sharing of images, stories, videos or small thoughts and links. If people enjoy connecting though social networking apps it’s all harmless. It’s all about a healthy balance of life on and off line. I agree it’s good to have a sense of humour about ourselves though.
I had to link here. This is great . I wrote about Twiter discipline. …getting your life back… etc.
My boyfriend had been holding out on signing up for twitter until he had an iPhone. Then we watched this video last weekend and his reply was “Fiiiiiine, I’ll sign up for twitter!” I guess reverse psychology is alive and well?
This is so funny, thanks for having the sense of humour to post it.
This is why I started twittering (tweeting?), thanks to @czdesign for the original tweet: http://tinyurl.com/d2jh8r. BTW I do enjoy your tweets 😉 so don’t take the video too personally!
–e.
LINK FIXED. Sorry about that,
This is so funny, thanks for having the sense of humour to post it.
This is why I started twittering (tweeting?), thanks to @czdesign for the original tweet:
http://tinyurl.com/d2jh8r
BTW I do enjoy your tweets 😉 so don’t take the video too personally!
–e.