How to get people using Twitter?

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Permalink Reply by BlackMagic on September 9, 2009 at 3:35pm

I don't use it or plan to- mostly because it's not a requirement for life and I'm not interested in seeing what people have to say about what I'm doing- but from what I've heard and seen about it, it's a site where you type your status about what you're doing and people "follow" you and you can follow them and others. How this is different from Facebook or other networking sites, I don't know. To sell it, I guess you could say that celebrities use it and it played a part in getting word out about the elections in Iran, if that matters.

Other than that, your life won't be impacted if you wrote it off and didn't use it.

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Permalink Reply by MDS on September 9, 2009 at 3:57pm

A) Twitter is a "blurb" of what's going on in your life.

B) I sell people on twitter by telling them that MY life is more important than THEIR life. It tends to work, because people ask me about the Twitter account that I don't have or don't use, and I laugh at them.

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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on September 9, 2009 at 4:07pm

This is one of the ways it was explained to me. I knew what it was from the start, but it makes sense. It is a site that is just Facebook statuses. If they don't know what Facebook is, fuck em.

Really, find out if there are celebrities or public figures or shit like that that are also on Twitter. That's what sold me on the idea in the end.

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Permalink Reply by Chig Champa on September 9, 2009 at 4:14pm

You too can follow the inane lives of celebrities!! As if having them splayed across every newsstand, magazine rack, gossip column, and asinine television program wasn't enough!!
Now they can be on your phone!!

I think I'll hold out for the nanotechnology that wakes me from my sleep to inform me that Brad Pitt finally shat out the last of that bad ham sandwich, and now he's relaxing on the couch watching reruns of The Munsters.

It's like I'm his best friend!!

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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on September 9, 2009 at 4:44pm

Gotta love that SuperNews.

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Permalink Reply by Laslo Piniflex on September 9, 2009 at 4:59pm

That was hilarious. The sad part is I know people like this.

But isn't everything on the internet (yes that includes Spill) an outlet for people to indulge in their narcissistic tendencies?

Also I dont follow Ashton Kutcher but i think i'm the only one.

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Permalink Reply by Boatloads1017 on September 9, 2009 at 10:11pm

Yeah and pretty much.

No, there is another. This guy right here.

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