From the horses mouth (regarding Twitter)
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I do hope he doesn't join! My opinion of anyone takes a nosedive when I know they are on Twitter.
Pure snobbery -don't care. And I know they don't care about my opinion of them, so we're all happy.
Pure snobbery -don't care. And I know they don't care about my opinion of them, so we're all happy.
celeb's never really answer you on twitter. I got a reply from one of the bid tv presenters but none of the others listen. i can't really blame the boy.
Originally Posted by PencilBreath:
“celeb's never really answer you on twitter. I got a reply from one of the bid tv presenters but none of the others listen. i can't really blame the boy.”
“celeb's never really answer you on twitter. I got a reply from one of the bid tv presenters but none of the others listen. i can't really blame the boy.”
Barrowman seems to radomly reply to tweets. I'm surprised he still does after the grief he gets sometimes, though. One 'fan' even accused him of being responsible for her friends suicide attempt because he didn't reply to her friends tweet.
A sensible statement from the BBC. I saw one account in his name last night that, even after a couple of posts, was going down the route of religious hatred.
Twitter is a pointless outlet for people to spout inane rubbish which in normal conversation no rational person would be interested in.
Originally Posted by TheSilentFez:
“Twitter is a pointless outlet for people to spout inane rubbish which in normal conversation no rational person would be interested in.”
“Twitter is a pointless outlet for people to spout inane rubbish which in normal conversation no rational person would be interested in.”
That assertion isn't unique to Twitter
I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
I use mine for work. But can see why PC won't.
I don't understand what the problem is with Twitter, it's much like these forums, allows you to express an opinion on things and riposte with people and some celebrities are very nice and vocal on it
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
I agree completely, and very nicely put.
However i would only add that stephen fry somehow manages to crack it. Probably simply because he can always use one word when the rest of us are wrestling with sentences to say the same thing..
But yes, despite that one caveat - i concur that twitter is just a pointless fad that's outlived its 5 minutes of fame..
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
It can't ever fail then, unfortunately.
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
Just wanting to say I use twitter on pretty much a daily basis - helps me to keep tabs on things I am interested in and I have developed my own real life social network thorough coming in to contact with people with mutual interests.
Undoubtedly there are some morons on twitter, just like there are some morons on this forum. But I don't particularly appreciate the labels you are chucking at me, albeit indirectly.
Frankly I fail to see how twitter is much different to any other form of social networking or forum.
As for Peter Capaldi, someone in his situation is definitely better off away from it, as it opens him up to all sorts of abuse, which can be a downside to it.
Originally Posted by PencilBreath:
“celeb's never really answer you on twitter. I got a reply from one of the bid tv presenters but none of the others listen. i can't really blame the boy.”
“celeb's never really answer you on twitter. I got a reply from one of the bid tv presenters but none of the others listen. i can't really blame the boy.”
Marc Warren does answer fans, etc I have noticed. A lot. But then he did say on the Jonathan Ross show that he might meet a new girlfriend on Twitter!
I don't use twitter myself, but I can see why some people cannot answer ever single person that tweets them. For the more popular people on there it'd be like coming back to your emails after a year. There's just no way you'd be able to read them all, never mind reply to them. You'd just have to pick and choose whatever caught your eye.
Maybe I should start my own twitter account. I'm sure everyone would be eager to know whatever I'm doing at every moment of the day-like when I'm sitting on the toilet, or making some tea, or picking my nose.
Maybe I should start my own twitter account. I'm sure everyone would be eager to know whatever I'm doing at every moment of the day-like when I'm sitting on the toilet, or making some tea, or picking my nose.
Christopher Eccleston has supposedly joined Twitter.
Most likely a fake but he has gained 12000 followers in a couple of days.
Most likely a fake but he has gained 12000 followers in a couple of days.
Originally Posted by Corwin:
“Christopher Eccleston has supposedly joined Twitter.
Most likely a fake but he has gained 12000 followers in a couple of days.”
“Christopher Eccleston has supposedly joined Twitter.
Most likely a fake but he has gained 12000 followers in a couple of days.”
It is fake, as confirmed by Tom Spilsbury.
Worth bumping, I've seen a number of people using Peter Capaldi Twitter accounts as 'proof' of this and that
Originally Posted by saladfingers81:
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
“I cannot wait for the day Twitter falls out of favor. It is the domain of self obsessed celebs, the terminally uninteresting and One Direction fans. It serves no purpose except to perpetuate the stupidity of some sections of the human race. All our ability for wonder and intelligence and we willingly limit our capacity to express ourselves into crude sound bites.”
Wait, are you talking about Twitter, or websites in general? Or television? Or newspapers? Or in fact any section of the media?
Limiting ourselves in the complexity of our expression is a good way to get a true expression of ourselves out there. Writing an essay is something most people will not do.
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