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DavidB - Member
If you are looking for some inspiration cycling wise follow @yearrecord this is a twitter account I set up in tribute to Tommy Godwin who rode 75,065 miles in a single year. Each day at 10am it tweets his daily and cumulative mileage for that date in 1939 when he broke the record. The only day I've beaten him is October 28th and you'll have to follow to find out why.
That's cool! I'll follow you 🙂
no more profound for having come from a businessman than it would be from a cabby, or my sister.
I'm not sure that it's meant to be..
If you are searching only for profundity on twitter, perhaps you have not only misunderstood twitter, but maybe also the internet.. and perhaps even life..?
(not a twit personally myself FWIW)
Gus the Fox is currently the funniest thing on twitter by a country mile.
Perhaps I'd like to be convinced?
You clearly think I'm wrong to question the orthodoxy that Twitter's a good thing
That's fair enough. I don't think you're wrong to question why people like it, but I do think you're wrong to just wade in off-topic on someone else's thread sounding off why you don't as though the rest of us are all sad celeb-stalking idiots.
Your comments didn't read to me like you were asking why people like it, they appeared wholly negative. I'm genuinely sorry if I misjudged / misunderstood you, and TBF it's a common gripe of mine and not solely related to this thread so I'm a little over-sensitive about it perhaps. "Wah wah something you like is shit" - don't read it / watch it / use it then. Why do some people have this driving desire to belittle or spoil things for everyone else? Does my gourd in.
Anyway, in answer to the question then. I think perhaps what you get out of Twitter is a sum of a) what you put in and b) who you follow.
For the latter, you've got to remember that these are all just people. The fact that some people [i]just aren't interesting [/i]isn't a failing of the media; you just need to exercise some quality control. For instance, I used to follow Kevin Smith, I like his films and thought he'd be a laugh. The bulk of his output turned out to consist mostly of "I'm about to have a joint" or "I'm about to knock the back out of the wife" so I simply unfollowed him. There's no social stigma in doing this, it's not Facebook.
I follow friends. Sure, you don't "need" to know your brother's just fitted a shower, but is it not the sort of small talk you'd have? "Fitted a shower, tell you what, drilling tiles is a right PITA, but it all works and I'm dead chuffed." If he said that to you over a pint in a pub, would you say "I don't need to know that, what else have you got"? Maybe it's just me, but I like seeing tweets from mates saying what they're up to. It's a good talking point next time I see them; "hey, how was that movie / art gallery / strip joint / Peru then?" At an age where many of my friends aren't on the doorstep any more, it's a nice way of keeping in touch. Years ago, people had pen pals. They'd nothing important to say to each other then either.
As for my own output, I try to be interesting but I don't feel obligated to. Idle thoughts and jokes go out there along with personal stuff, snapshots when I'm out and about, and cool things I trip over on the web which historically I might've emailed to friends instead. Ultimately though, I don't really tweet for an audience's benefit; if people like it they can read it, and if not they don't have to.
Fair enough Cougar - I agree that I am a bit negative about it, but mainly because what I've seen (and admittedly, I've not spent a massive amount of time digging in) has been trivial at best.
The quotes I put up earlier were all from 2 minutes of Twitter-browsing, and, as you say, these are all just people, whose daily lives may well be just as humdrum as my own. It bemuses me that people whose output is admired (Stephen Fry is a good example) are followed on Twitter and almost deified when they post. But 5 posts today on the fact that he's flying to the UK from NZ to Edinburgh? Not what floats my boat, but he's got 4m+ followers. Astonishing, genuinely astonishing.
Tell you what, I'll ignore the 'celeb' Twitterers and see if I can find things of value. I'll pop back in a bit.
Tell you what, I'll ignore the 'celeb' Twitterers and see if I can find things of value. I'll pop back in a bit.
Why not start a thread asking for recommendations? 😀
Gary Neville surprisingly funny whilst Rio just advertises things.
The power of Twitter, 50Cent made over a million dollars telling his followers to buy some shares.. As if he needs the money.
I used it once to find out what all that black smoke was I could see out the window. Proper news reports weren't online yet but several people had tweeted about it and some even took pics of the building while it was on fire.
Kinda neat.
Jamie, looking at the list of recommendations makes me feel a bit ill. Barack Obama? Arnold Schwartzenegger? Not for me, thank you.
Though the Viz one may be of interest.....
Loving your work Jamie, loving your work.
Nick, I guess the important question is what are you into?
Well, not Twitter, we've ascertained that much. (-:
If you like stupid a la Viz, have a look at [s]me[/s] @GeneHunt
Milkie, all my tweets are coaching,coffee,riding,beer and curry. 😀
Just bimbled onto twitter for the fun of it, following Jedi (natch!) 😀 I'm @lifeofmyride 🙂
Edit: @GeneHunt is properly good 😆