I keep hearing about this new messaging site "Twitter" apparently a bit like Facebook/Myspace. seems to be the new thing
does anyone have it and is it worth signing up? :hmm:
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I keep hearing about this new messaging site "Twitter" apparently a bit like Facebook/Myspace. seems to be the new thing
does anyone have it and is it worth signing up? :hmm:
Another one!
Cant we all stick to one, I like facebook :D
Why do we have to have one social network site to join to another
I've heard about this on Radio 1 in the mornings.. don't people follow celebrities on there? :confused:
I only heard about this the other day. Phillip was going on about it on This Morning
yeah i heard that davey, i wonder what you actually do on there tho :confused:
I just did a search for it, its been around since 2006
really :eek: i thought it had just come out :lol:
I saw it on 5 news the other week, and thought I'd sign up to check it out. It's boring haha. It's just the status's off FB... you can do that on FB.
I'm following Richard Bacon, Sara Barielles and Chris Moyles though :searchme:.
It's rubbish though, I wouldn't join.
My friend has a Twitter and he keeps linking to it in his FB status. It's a bit like Live Journal, if anyone has had one of those.
I wouldn't sign up for one, can think of better things to do than write my thoughts down for all my friends to see.
ive heard about it but dont think id join. facebook is fine for me!
i was reading that when the plane landed on the water in america and the pilot got everyone to safety it was twitter that broadcasted it first
Stephen Fry has a Twitter! :p They had a report on Twitter on the One Show.
Some people make up pages on celebrities. I hope Hugh Lauries and Robert (forgot his last name) ones are real. Because they are quite hilarious. :p
To me its like facebook but simpler. Easier to keep track on people. :rotfl:
By the way mines http://twitter.com/SparkleWard
Robert Sean Leonard? He plays Wilson.
Yes that's it :D Except he's called Bobby Sean on Twitter.
I'm not sure if they are real profiles, but Stephen Fry's is, at least according to the One show. :lol:
Miley Cyrus had her Twitter page temporarily suspended after it was hacked.
For a short time, readers seeking the Hannah Montana star's page would receive the message: "Sorry, the account you were headed to has been suspended due to strange activity. Mosey along now, nothing to see here."
The suspension occurred after a number of expletive-laden messages were Twittered on the singer's feed.
Posts included: "I'm not a *******ing role model. I hate little kids, I only do Hannah Montanna for da $$$$$$$$$" and "Me and Mandy had sex n Hannah Montanna wigs".
Another fake message claimed that Cyrus would pose for Playboy next week.
At the weekend, Cyrus appeared to forget the lines to one of her songs during a live TV performance.
The star is also facing a $4 billion lawsuit for allegedly pulling a racially insensitive pose in a photograph, a claim that she denies.
I "twitter" :D
I love reading Stephen Fry's twitters and Philip Schofields too. I follow a few celebs, don't think enough to be classed as a stalker yet though lol
Social networking sites like Twitter may harm the emotional development of young people, a study has found.
Research by scientists at the University of Southern California showed that information provided by social networking sites moves too fast for the brain of a child to process, which affects emotional development, CNN reports.
"If things are happening too fast, you may not ever fully experience emotions about other people's psychological states and that would have implications for your morality," researcher Mary Helen Immordino- Yang said.
Researchers looked at how volunteers responded to real-life stories chosen to stimulate admiration for virtue or skill, or compassion for physical or social pain. Brain scans of the test subjects showed that humans can respond quickly to signs of physical pain in others, but it takes longer to show admiration or compassion.
"For some kinds of thought, especially moral decision-making about other people's social and psychological situations, we need to allow for adequate time and reflection," Immordino-Yang added.
Ashton Kutcher has become the first user of Twitter to have one million followers.
The actor beat CNN in a competition to reach the milestone, passing the mark just 30 minutes before the news organisation.
Celebrating his win with wife Demi Moore and friends, the star posted a message saying: "We have victory!
"We have shown the world that the new wave is here, it is present and it is ready to explode.
"You guys are all of it because I can't follow me, so I don't even count.
"We can and will create our media. We can will and edit our media. We can and will broadcast our media. We will censor our own media ourselves," he added.
Earlier this week, Kutcher promised to donate 10,000 mosquito nets to charity for World Malaria Day if he amassed one million followers before CNN.
everyone seems to be getting this now, I think I will sign up.
I've signed up - but i dont get it - you follow people and they follow you. Facebook is DEFFO better; im not really fussed about all the celebs!
do you actually talk to the celebrities? how do we know its them thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Layne
Well as far as i get - you folllow them, and can comment on what they say - and them you. Some of them i suppose you don't know its them, but Jonathon Ross and Stephen Fry are like Twitter addicts and have their own accounts
Heather Mills has vowed to "tell it exactly like it is" on Twitter after joining the social networking site.
The former model set up her own page on the microblogging service earlier this week and has since attracted 83 followers.
Writing on her official website, Mills explained: "I thought it about time that I joined the online Twitter revolution, so I'll be tweeting on issues close to my heart, both in and out of the news, posting favourite links to websites and campaigns or stuff that simply makes me laugh or even cry.
"I'll be sharing recipe ideas, my thoughts and feelings on any number of things. Of course I promise to try not to be too controversial but I can really only be me, and in all honesty I wouldn't be true to myself if I didn't tell it exactly like it is."
She added: "It seems there have been quite a few people pretending to be me, twittering in my name. How very dare they!"
The ex-wife of Sir Paul McCartney posted two updates on her page on Thursday night but has not yet returned to the website.
Mills recently announced plans to clear the internet of media "lies" about her personal life.
Anything to remain in the public eye, can't see too many people following her though
When is she going to get the message that the public don't give a toss about her or what lies have been supposingly told.
i went on there the other day and was looking at a few different peoples ones. i found it quite boring tbh
I followed the NUS official one when it was conference week. It was great to know what was happening every few minutes (yes, I was sad enough to refresh the page every five minutes to see what motions had been passed) because I couldn't be there in person.
For general, every day friends and family I find it a bit strange. Constant, one line updates on what people are doing :hmm: If I wanted to know that, I'd ring or text them.
I have an account on there, but I dont use it, I prefer Facebook
I don't get Twitter. I was considering signing up and had a proper look round the site, but really all you do it seems is type what you are doing like 10 times a day? :confused: e.g. "Hiya, just gone to the toilet xx"
Like Abigail said, if I wanted to know what people were up to, I'd get in touch.
Yep, it's not like facebook where you can play games or apps. It's basically telling followers what you're doing.
Maybe it's more interesting for followers of famous people like Ashton Kutcher (most followed tweeter) :searchme:
Thinking about signing up is it any good?
Join Facebook instead :) There's a Soapboards group on there and lots of other soapboards members.
There was an article on bbc news today that said 10% of users make up 90% of all activity on Twitter.
Already on facebook :)
the one with 24 members?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
This one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ladypinkthe one with 24 members?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
isn't this the same one I just mentioned with 24 members?Quote:
Originally Posted by AbigailThis one :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ladypinkthe one with 24 members?Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
Actually, I've changed my mind. I've just seen Ruth Lorenzo on Twitter and I really want to follow her :o :o
I'm on there also:
http://twitter.com/Hannelene_Cass
Ashton is only the most followed because him and Larry King had a race to be the first to have 1,000,000,000 followers at which point they would be donating 1,000,000,000 malaria nets (I think it was) which was why everyone was following him. He talks a load of c and isn't worth following for sure though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Abigail
I'm on Twitter.. feel free to follow me if you wish
www.twitter.com/daveytheman
lol i like it davey "watching corrie" :D
oh im gonna have to join :cool: