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March 29th, 2008 | posted by dchud

I take it back. The twitter account, that is. I really don't get it, and I really don't need it.

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On 1:23am, March 30th, 2008 ranti (not verified) said:

Use it as a quick info gathering

I occasionally use it to update my status; I'm more of "following people who I know will post interesting info +links". :-)

On 7:48am, March 30th, 2008 dchud said:

Yeah, I could see that, but

Yeah, I could see that, but somehow I already have sixteen other ways of doing that. :) It's the firehose of minutiae that I can't handle.

On 11:56am, March 30th, 2008 ranti (not verified) said:

sixteen?

Wow. Sixteen is thirteen too many for me. :-)

Interestingly enough, Edward Vielmetti wrote a similar thing through his twitter: ¨I want a filter for Twitter that drops all posts that are sentence fragments, leaving just the complete thoughts intact.¨

On 12:24pm, March 30th, 2008 walt crawford. (not verified) said:

Welcome to the club

Former Twitter users, that is... I think I got it, but didn't want it. It's clearly great for some folks; more power to 'em. (I suppose there would be those who say I never really got it, since if you get it, how can you not want it? Fortunately, I've learned to ignore that particular circularity.)

On 11:18am, March 31st, 2008 DaleA (not verified) said:

Guilt now reduced

Many thanks for saying this so clearly. As with you, I jumped on a while back, but have found that I drifted away and don't really miss it. Didn't really get it, either. I feel so much better knowing that I'm not the only one to see it and walk away.

Walt - you nail the skewed logic perfectly. If something's so hard to 'get,' I have better things to do!

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