All about Twitter

[LeSedna]

Hello guys,

I again found a "Twitter" option on a band's myspace today. It reminded me that I don't use twitter at all, I tried, I just can't get the interest of it.

Do any of you use it regularly ? And can explain what is the interest, really, of it ? How do you use it, I mean, how do you approach its use ?

Because all I get of it is that it's a worldwide messy pot of random information that you try to keep at the instant it is twitted, and I just don't see how anybody could be interested of it. It just looks so messy and unorganized, and ultimately, boring and extremely unefficient, for a cartesian spirit like me, and yet, a lot of people seems to use it as well as facebook or youtube that I clearly understand, and it's pissing me off not to understand it even after I read how it works and after using it like 30mns more or less !

 

[SocialNumb]

Nope, don't use it. I tried briefly but just couldn't be bothered to read what shoes Cindy got or how great Joe's orange juice tastes.

 

[narcossintese]

Twitter is a great tool for a band. It´s basically just like a RSS. Fans don´t have to keep coming back to your site to check if there are news.

 

[Russtopher]

I use it religiously, in fact I have 2 accounts- 1 is my "professional" account, that I use to follow other people in my industry, and I really use that account to get industry news, see what products & services people are talking about, try and network, etc.

My "personal" account I use to follow friends, bands, labels, etc. I've picked up a lot of good music recommendations from people talking about new bands, sending out links to free releases, etc. Bands are constantly talking about new shows, music etc.

I view Twitter as two things, really - one is a giant instant news source, the other is as a giant "not quite live" chat room with craploads of other people I like and know. It took me a little while to figure out how to best use and approach it, but I really dig it now.

 

[robfromthedeep]

I'm addicted, i know Ryan and Joey use it pretty religiously too. Follow me if you wish... @RobCollierr

 

[MarcusGHedwig]

 

[cloy26]

@CJLoy if you guys care.

 

[arv_foh]

@briankozicki

you might be entertained by all the shitty things that happen to me when I'm running FOH

 

[Harry Hughes]

I'm one of those people that is really slow to adopt to social networking type things. I didn't get a Facebook account until about 11 months , for example, even though some of my friends had it since basically it began.
I switched to Facebook from myspace because I was sick of seeing annoying profiles with all this emo shit or whatever garbage.
Facebook should be enough for me, I don't think Twitter is necessary

 

[K Odell]

@kyleodell

Holla!

 

[Loren Littlejohn]

I did it, even put a widget on OSX for it. I think it sucks. Even if I had a phone with it, I still don't think I would do it. Who the fuck cares if I had good pizza last night or bought a new microphone?

Nobody.

Twitter is fucking stupid for the average douche.

 

[DanLights]

I have an account, @lucesdaniel if you want to add, I´ll add all you guys.

I log on like once a week at very best, but If I added mroe bands and stuff I like I might get more often, some bands use it for quick studio or tour diaries type of things and it´s cool to follow. I hardly ever post anything myself, nothing interesting to post I guess

 

[LeSedna]

well I give this a try ! I'm following you dudes. Me is @Lesedna but I may not post a lot !

 

[robfromthedeep]

To anyone who played pokemon, follow @Gary_Oak_

absolutely hilarious

The guys from Architects are pretty cool to follow, they post a lot of pictures of gear and stuff

Scott Ian just talks about Ultimate Bet... ALL THE TIME.