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Good riddance, Twitter.

Dion Moult — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:40:12 +0000

Twitter has successfully put the “Twit” in “Twitter”. Some people realised that I apparently vanished off the face of the Earth on Twitter. I realised that I used Twitter in a way that was better served through other methods. I followed people/groups in order to keep up with tech news, and mainly “tweeted” in order to alert others of new updates on my various projects.

The first is obviously a crappy function duplication of the RSS aggregator – except for lazy people. The people that I were following that weren’t simply news corporations were, quite frankly, idiots. Well, idiots on Twitter.

No. I don’t want to hear about the weather, no matter how you choose to describe it. I don’t care for parrots who simply re-tweet everything. I especially don’t want to hear about your depressing thoughts described in the most enigmatic and bullshit words possible.

What I do like however is people who can readily distinguish between reality and their own little fantasy world and know which of those other people like to know about. Once that distinction is made I’d like further categorisation for time-wasters and useful information. Sad to say that I didn’t really see anything in the “useful information” column outside news companies – who reported real people doing real things that made real impacts.

As interesting as technology might be, the Internet is the nine-years consecutive winner of the “stupid content” award. If you don’t believe me, take a look at this blog post, which lists the most popular alphabetically listed search terms on Google after “I like to”, including my all-time favourites “I like to tape my thumbs to my hands to see what it would be like to be a dinosaur” and “I like to think of Jesus as a mischievous badger“. So-called Social Networks like Twitter are propagating this nonsense and it stands to reason that my Tweets were being read by similar idiots. Or not read at all.

Suffice to say that my account was better off being nonexistent. I wish to disassociate myself from this crowd and remain close to my ideals.

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Oh, did I miss something?

Dion Moult — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:51:18 +0000

Rumour has it that I didn’t put a post on the 10th of November when I promised I would do a post every two days. Whoops. Well, two days ago marked the starting of what I believe would be one of the most interesting set of days I’ll come across. Suffice to say my Twitter page might cover some of the events, and well … I’m quite at a loss as to what I should say.

Perhaps I can justify myself with an interesting techy article about Google’s latest massive slipup.

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Twit-to-who?

Dion Moult — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 12:46:17 +0000

I’ve apparently poked about in the social side of the Interwebs and noticed that a new phenomenon is rising (OK, I’m a bit late) called Microblogging. Apparently it involves using your phone (or other ways) to send messages about yourself, to anybody who’s bothered to check what’s up about you. One popular site that offers this Microblogging system is called Twitter, and I’ve decided it might be fun to try out. Seeing that two-daily posts here don’t actually cover the amazing stuff I do daily, Twitter might be just what is needed to cover that gap.

Click – Check out my “Twitter” page.

If anybody here also uses Twitter and you have an interesting life, I might be inclined to adding you to my Twitter watch list.

Implemented a new “Asides” feature.