Twitter-is this really a necessary and important website?

[samintx]

I really don't care to know exactly what someone is doing at any particular moment...so I don't Twitter...but do you? Do you find it useful?

All the comments on TV are "it is wonderful" "love it" "great"......

[SDGuy]

[$tevie]

I feel like I am getting too obsessed with online stuff as it is. The last thing I need is to start checking in with one and all night and day. I am still trying to understand the whole "$tevie is picking the spinach out of her teeth right this minute" Facebook nonsense.

[space-time]

this forum is neither really necessary nor really important, yet we all come here. why?

[RAMd®d]

Twitter is one of several social networking tools, and like any tool or resource, it can be useful, useless, or abused depending on who's using it.

Like people who *must* chain-email DIRE WARNINGS that have been at Snopes for God knows how long, some people will "tweet" about anything. That doesn't mean Twitter *isn't* useful and doesn't have real value for some people.

You don't need to be one of those people to use Twitter.

[ztirffritz]

There are uses for it. During some recent emergency events people sending Twitter updates from their phones where able provide real-time feedback about what was happening over a large area effectively crowdsourcing the news. One example that I know of was brushfires in SoCal. I've also found that it can be useful for alerting people to pending webcasts from my iPhone.

[Mac1337]

Who would be a Twittee?

[threeprong]

Yeah, it's tool.

It fills a very narrow internet niche that lies between instant chat and email and is less personal than a facebook status update.

[Dennis S]

Here is an earlier thread that had some reasons people here Twitter/Tweet:

http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,681852

[(vikm)]

It's exactly like the rest of the internet. The usefulness lies right at or around 10% or so.

It's well past the point of being "cool"... if it ever was. I make use of it for that 10% of info I wouldn't normally be able to extract. Don't find it necessary to post much myself even though it would mesh well with me being self-absorbed.