Posted: 12/25/2015 11:59:32 AM EDT
| In a nutshell, please explain to me, an old guy, how "Twitter" works and why it is so popular. Consider your response my Christmas gift. Thanks! |
| Find something stupid or related to pop culture. Formulate stupid opinion and swallow it. Shit it out onto a moldy piece of bread. Smear it around and then post on the internet for everyone to see. The opinion must be very ignorantly formulated or a lie told by a liberal. There you have it, Twitter. |
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Find something stupid or related to pop culture. Formulate stupid opinion and swallow it. Shit it out onto a moldy piece of bread. Smear it around and then post on the internet for everyone to see. The opinion must be very ignorantly formulated or a lie told by a liberal. There you have it, Twitter. In 140 characters or less for concentrated stupidity. |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. You're on social media here. |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. I see the irony there 
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Post short messages online. Friends who subscribe to you get them automatically. The tagging function is why it's valuable.
Adding tags to your posts lets people categorize things by that tag. That's a big deal, like hyperlinks. Here, if you want a Trump thread, you have to start one, and then all the Trumpets are trapped in that thread. On twitter, you have a thread "#Trump," so all the Trump supporters and haters can add #Trump to any post and it's added to that. They can find each other automatically instead of being isolated to different threads at different times on different boards; and then CNN can track their numbers and say there was an x% rise today. |
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You get 140 characters per tweet to say whatever you want.
The @ symbol sends that tweet to a specific person. So if you type @Santa then that message is sent to Santa. The people who follow you and Santa also see the message. The # symbol makes a word searchable. So if you type #NASCAR in a tweet - anyone who searches for NASCAR can find your tweet. An example. If there was a shooting in Nashville, you could tweet; "There is an active shooter in #Nashville" Then everyone who searched for Nashville would see your tweet. Celebrities like to post stuff. William Shatner (Capt Kirk) is a hoot sometimes. I follow my small town local newspaper. If anything exciting happens, they tweet it. It's what you make of it. |
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Microblogging in a 140 characters or less. Whatever someone writes is called a tweet.
It's like a facebook wall, but it's called a feed. Everything you tweet posts in your feed. Everything people you follow (subscribe to) tweet shows up in your feed. If someone you don't follow tweets "@{your_twitter_name]" it shows in your feed. If someone retweets one of your tweets, it shows up in your feed regardless of whether you follow them or not. People use a "#" tag to make a word or phrase more searchable. Clear as mud now? |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Irony |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Irony 
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Irony #boomheadshot |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. You're on social media here. I applaud your refreshing grasp of grammar. |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. You're on social media here. You got to be kidding me! |
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Find something stupid or related to pop culture. Formulate stupid opinion and swallow it. Shit it out onto a moldy piece of bread. Smear it around and then post on the internet for everyone to see. The opinion must be very ignorantly formulated or a lie told by a liberal. There you have it, Twitter. I don't twitter, but from what I understand, this is pretty close to spot on... |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. You're on social media here.
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Oy Veh What do you think this website is? |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Oy Veh What do you think this website is? A public forum
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Oy Veh What do you think this website is? A public forum
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Oy Veh What do you think this website is? A public forum
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Irony
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I don't twitter, but from what I understand, this is pretty close to spot on... Quoted:
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Find something stupid or related to pop culture. Formulate stupid opinion and swallow it. Shit it out onto a moldy piece of bread. Smear it around and then post on the internet for everyone to see. The opinion must be very ignorantly formulated or a lie told by a liberal. There you have it, Twitter. I don't twitter, but from what I understand, this is pretty close to spot on... Spot on Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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You get 2 names on Twitter: 1 that's important and has the '@' sign in front of it which people use to respond quickly to whatever you said and is searchable if you're interested in reading a specific person's Twitter. The other above it which is changeable, kind of useless and I'm not sure why they included it. The equivalent of "threads" on Twitter is the '#', followed by a topic, or notion/opinion that others can contribute to, whether sincerely or to mock or hijack it. It's also a common way to end/summarize your Tweet in 1 or 2 words. Like names with the '@' prefix, hashtags are searchable on both Google and Twitter. Very active hashtags are said to be trending so you can see what is the most discussed issues/topics on Twitter at the moment. When the terrorists attacked Paris, a lot of Twitter users who only use Twitter for news send out prayers for Paris Hilton. You can communicate privately to other users using DM (direct messaging). Be really sure you know how to use it because famous people who were Twitter novices have gotten really burned by saying something they thought was a direct, private message when they actually broadcasted it to everyone who followed them. If you like someone else's Tweet, or you see someone say something incredibly stupid and want everyone you know to read it, you can click the recycling arrows at the bottom of the person's tweet to re-tweet that person's message to all of your followers, and you can put a comment on it if it doesn't speak for itself. I don't really use Twitter much at all, but I've kind of figured out how it works because so many bloggers use it and kind of learned from watching them. I like to check out www.twitchy.com that aggregates the funniest or stupidest Tweets of the day as a blog. |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Irony #micdrop |
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Fuck social media sites! Who the hell wants to read about someone's new car vacation boyfriend/girlfriend or how little Stevie got His first trophy? I don't want to air all my problems on some damn electronic website to a bunch of strangers. Oy Veh What do you think this website is? A public forum
You need a job as a sarcasm detector? No pay No benefits No recognition Just post counts #itakeeverythingatfacevalue
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imagine arfcom. instead of having a GD forum, you have your own page. on that page, you post stuff that is interesting to you, so that other people can see. when you log in, instead of seeing every thread started by every arfcommer, you only see the threads posted by posters who you think are interesting.
that is facebook/twitter in a nutshell. |
