*flops*

[mrv3000]

Okay, I think I give up on twitter. Scraps of conversations that you can't link to each other - how do people keep up with it? It's like trying to follow a phone conversation, but in reverse, and it might take you a while to find the previous comment that set off the comment you're looking at. If you can find it at all, that is.

*gets a headache*

Comments

[javabreeze.livejournal.com]

Twitter makes no sense to me. It makes even less sense that my friends will Twitter when they're in the same room doing the same thing and all I hear are little beeps that go off because they're twittering.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

BWAH! That's pretty hard-core twittering! That reminds me of that commercial where the dad is on his blackberry...

Son: Dad, you have to stop all this twittering.

Dad: I. Am. On. The. Patio. Heh heh.

Son: Yeah, I know you're on the patio.

[sarae03.livejournal.com]

Yeah...I don't really use Twitter for conversing. It's not very user friendly for that, imho. However, I do like it an RSS feed reader. I follow several local news stations, some famous folks, etc. who keep me updated and entertained. Occasionally, I tweet, but it's few and far between.
:)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I've tried doing the conversation thing, but it doesn't really work for me. And so far my favorite celeb is Simon Pegg. Other celebs are really REALLY boring.

[papilio-luna.livejournal.com]

SIMON PEGG HAS A TWITTER?

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

He does!

http://twitter.com/simonpegg

[cws-eat-chs.livejournal.com]

FOR REAL? It's actual, honest to goodness Simon Pegg? WHERE.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I...think so. Either that or he's really good. :D

http://twitter.com/simonpegg

It was entertaining watching him visit New York.

[cws-eat-chs.livejournal.com]

No! OMG! It IS him! I followed the 'reply to' comments through a convo with Nick Frost (who I KNOW is real) and they had a proper conversation! Hooray for everything! And thanks!
Peter Serafinowicz (or however you spell his name?) is pretty funny! So is Graham Linehan. Jonathan Ross too in a different, TMI sort of way.

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

Nathan Fillion makes me laugh at least once a day. Wil Wheaton and David Hewlett are usually fun too, with the latter being so mostly in Proud Geeky Dad sort of way.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

I tried Wil Wheaton for a while, but gave up on him. I might check out the others though.

[fiona-conn.livejournal.com]

I follow a few news tweets, myself, and a few famous folks (<3 Stephen Fry). I also follow the White House's West Wing Report, since you get a fun insight into what's going on behind the scenes. :3

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

You can link the conversations to one another if people have replied to someone else - where it says 'in reply to so-and-so,' click on that text and it will take you to the message in question.

If I haven't been on for a while, I find it easier to keep going further back (by clicking on the 'More' bar) until I hit the last time I was on, and skimming what I've missed.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

You can link the conversations to one another if people have replied to someone else - where it says 'in reply to so-and-so,' click on that text and it will take you to the message in question.

Where's that? I don't see that.

[principia-coh.livejournal.com]

Example tweet:

xebgoc @papilio_luna @principia I love that they are both wearing shiny black shoes. He actually polished his I think! his jeans have a hole in
less than a minute ago from web in reply to papilio_luna

You'll only get that last line if it's a reply from someone's tweet to another tweet and they used the 'reply' button.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Oh hey! There it is!

[elirrina.livejournal.com]

This is exactly how I feel about Twitter. It confuses me to no end.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*nods*

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I use TweetDeck and it's all pretty straightforward. I don't try to follow other people's @replies, usually. If they're to me, then it's in the @replies column. *shrugs*

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

TweetDeck. Some sort of manager or something? Maybe I need something like that.

[claidissa.livejournal.com]

Yep! It's free and really helpful.

[ivydoor.livejournal.com]

I try to think of it as a sort of never-ending IM session. Except instead of scrolling up, it scrolls down. I don't have time to chat any more, so it's nice to be able to just say "hi" or keep tabs on friends.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Yeah, like a big chat room!

[catyuy.livejournal.com]

I try to give up on it, yet all my friends seem to use it.
Woe is me.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

*pats*

[roxyk630.livejournal.com]

I have an account but... it STILL makes no sense to me either. :/

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

It's so hard to read!

[wiliqueen.livejournal.com]

This is where it comes in handy to only look at your home page, because it only shows replies addressed to people you're also following. i.e. if Fred starts a tweet with @Wilma, I'll only see it if I follow Wilma. Which means I saw what she said that he's replying to.

Unless I look at Fred's profile page, in which case I'll see his @'s to everyone. Most of which I won't care about, which is why I don't look much at people's profile pages. I'm following them for their original content, as it were, not the ongoing conversations.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Ohhhhhhhh. That's helpful!

[erateini.livejournal.com]

I have an account as well but I can't get any real use out of it since most of my friends prefer 'traditional' texting.

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

My friends usually go for flat out emailing.

[chloris67.livejournal.com]

I'm finding it a bit confusing myself! I just started but I'm already looking at tweets that reply to other tweets and don't make much sense. (Especially if the other tweet is protected and I can't even look at it.)

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

Yes! The trail goes cold once you get to a locked user. It's annoying.

[nandamai]

Twitter confounds me. Context! I need contex, people!

[mrv3000.livejournal.com]

YES.