Twitter - anyone use it

[Eddie Teach]

Heavens no?

[celedhring]

My twitter account is over 10 years old. It has a grand total of 2 posts. Funnily enough, 20-something people follow me. Mostly old friends, but also a few I don't recognize.

So the answer is "no".

[Hamilcar]

My twitter account is over 10 years old. It has a grand total of 2 posts. Funnily enough, 20-something people follow me. Mostly old friends, but also a few I don't recognize.

So the answer is "no".

Bots.

[The Larch]

I do use Twitter but almost never write anything myself, for me it's mostly a source of information and a way to follow live events or situations developing in real time. My activity there is quite up and down, though. In some periods I might log in daily, and then I'll ignore it for weeks and weeks.

It certainly takes a bit to learn how to use it in a productive way, otherwise it's easy to get overwhelmed by a never ending stream of new stuff. You have to ask yourself if it's going to be purely personal or also professional in some way, be selective on who you follow according to this, maybe do some thematic lists on particular topics, and possibly refrain from debating anything, as it's really a horrible medium for that.

[ulmont]

I do use Twitter but almost never write anything myself, for me it's mostly a source of information and a way to follow live events or situations developing in real time. My activity there is quite up and down, though. In some periods I might log in daily, and then I'll ignore it for weeks and weeks.

It certainly takes a bit to learn how to use it in a productive way, otherwise it's easy to get overwhelmed by a never ending stream of new stuff. You have to ask yourself if it's going to be purely personal or also professional in some way, be selective on who you follow according to this, maybe do some thematic lists on particular topics, and possibly refrain from debating anything, as it's really a horrible medium for that.

Second all of this, except that I check in a few times daily.  I have 4 lists: people I know IRL (plus a few people like you I know only from the Internet), chess, football, and a morning shortlist of about 20 people I tend to like to read.  Anything that isn't on a list, I never see.  So it's basically like an RSS feed (remember those) of 280-character blogs.

[The Larch]

I do use Twitter but almost never write anything myself, for me it's mostly a source of information and a way to follow live events or situations developing in real time. My activity there is quite up and down, though. In some periods I might log in daily, and then I'll ignore it for weeks and weeks.

It certainly takes a bit to learn how to use it in a productive way, otherwise it's easy to get overwhelmed by a never ending stream of new stuff. You have to ask yourself if it's going to be purely personal or also professional in some way, be selective on who you follow according to this, maybe do some thematic lists on particular topics, and possibly refrain from debating anything, as it's really a horrible medium for that.

Second all of this, except that I check in a few times daily.  I have 4 lists: people I know IRL (plus a few people like you I know only from the Internet), chess, football, and a morning shortlist of about 20 people I tend to like to read.  Anything that isn't on a list, I never see.  So it's basically like an RSS feed (remember those) of 280-character blogs.

Good thing about lists, you don't have to actually follow the accounts! 

I have a bunch of lists, but I only really use a couple of them, both sports related. The rest is all a rather eclectic feed.

[The Brain]

My twitter account is over 10 years old. It has a grand total of 2 posts. Funnily enough, 20-something people follow me. Mostly old friends, but also a few I don't recognize.

So the answer is "no".

Bots.

The band?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

Hells no

[The Brain]

Finally.

[jimmy olsen]

Joined December 2013
198 Following
30 Followers
274 Tweets

[The Brain]

Joined December 2013
198 Following
30 Followers
274 Tweets

Keep it up. Hitler started with less.

[Barrister]

I was bored.  I looked up the criteria to get a Twitter blue checkmark:

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/about-twitter-verified-accounts

I... I think I qualify as a government official?  I'd have to link my account to my work email, but otherwise I work for the government, I can find multiple news articles that cite me, etc.

Should I bother?  Or would that be more trouble than it's worth, as then I might be seen as representing the Justice Department when posting and now just my own opinions?

[Habbaku]

Definitely don't do that.

[Barrister]

Definitely don't do that.

Pourquoi?

[HVC]

Might retweet the wrong thing and get fired.