Thoughts on Twitter

[INsTeP]

How many of you are on it? How does an INTP make use of it or benefit from it? I find it incredibly hard to navigate the mess...

 

[NormannTheDoorman]

How many of you are on it? How does an INTP make use of it or benefit from it? I find it incredibly hard to navigate the mess...

Try to simplify your words and # the basic concepts

#IUsedToMakeFluffThreads#IStillSomtimesDo#Don'tTellTheMods

 

[Kuu]

I have one. I never use it. I think it's cumbersome and shallow and using it requires me to constantly check it and disrupt my concentration. Perhaps it's loved by people in cubicles with lots of procrastination and need of a social fix...

 

[TimeAsylums]

need of a social fix...

This would be my primary point

Relevant: the book linked in your thread "The Psychology of Cyberspace"

It is merely an extension of self, psychologically anyway. 'In real life' one can not always meet all of one's needs, and perhaps one turns to an (social?) online community to seek to meet those needs.

With that being said, I don't use it myself.

Interesting to note is the ...140? (I think it was), character limit, thus preventing anyone from sharing a "tl;dr," perhaps they are quick memes, or thoughts, expressed in an online public atmosphere, and can there be "judged" or simply seen by many others.


Regarding "benefits," I'm not sure of the actual benefits other then mentioned above, but for *some* it may be seen as networking, a useful tool in today's atmosphere.
-Also the "trending," feature *may* be useful to some for networking and keeping up on the *current.*


Cons include constant updates/necessary to refresh to check for for the updates...almost *seems* neurotic to me...akin to hitting the INTPf "new posts" button too much...or refreshing your e-mail...or anything of the sort(checking the fridge over and over).

#FirstWorldExistentialBoredomTooMuchTimeNothingToDoINeedItProblems

 

[doncarlzone]

I see nothing to gain from it. An occasional punchline perhaps? But the best ones get posted elsewhere anyway. The only network I'm a "follower" on is Quora and I don't even follow people there, only subjects.

 

[Flawed_Ravvn]

I think Twitter and any other social networking sites are pointless, I have a facebook, but I mainly use it to stalk people and maybe stay in touch with family in other states. Other than that, I see no point to it. People mainly just use them to complain about how bad their relationship/life is going.

 

[Turniphead]

I use it for the game dev community. Sharing what I'm working on, etc.

It's basically just a really concise forum.

 

[Pizzabeak]

They're obviously semi decent networking/marketing tools. Nothing "pointless" about them. Also for governments & corporations to mine marketing data on individuals, if you will, apparently. Could help, could be a waste of time probably depending on m.o. Might not really be a waste of time altogether though. Track and see whether any moves sans twitter or facebook have the same impact & outcome compared with if they had the extra exposure. We look at it as "progress".

 

[INsTeP]

It seems to be used as:
1) Place to go for breaking news
2) Networking tool for journalist/ media /business types
3) Place to go and discover new interest/friends
There have been many interesting books that I have discovered by interacting with people on this forum. Cant I get something similar out of twitter too? How is this thing organised (unsupervised clustering seems to be happening)? There must be interesting material out there, just don't know how to get to it with all the clutter.Was hoping that INTPs would have discovered a way to use twitter to the most out of it (for INTPs), but it looks like most of you folks steer clear of it.

 

[Pyropyro]

It seems to be used as:
1) Place to go for breaking news
2) Networking tool for journalist/ media /business types
3) Place to go and discover new interest/friends
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Yep I agree. Twitter is a life-saver in case of typhoons.

I also use Twitter for playing one of my online games.

 

[Base groove]

Twitter is a life-saver in case of typhoons.

Wow... try explaining this one to a sensor..

 

[Pyropyro]

Wow... try explaining this one to a sensor..

Well it can range from the mundane like announcing what parts of the city/province are impassable to the life threatening like posting about families who really need rescue from the floods.

 

[Flawed_Ravvn]

There is some good use for social networking sites if you like stalking people and making fun of them. I don't know if you would be completely into that, but that sort of what I use them for.

I guess they wouldn't be completely pointless because you could keep in touch with like family and stuff. And like you said, you've come across some pretty good books from it, I've come across some pretty good business partners through facebook.