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Why Engineers Don't Like Twitter
PabloSandoval48 writes, "A recent EE Times survey of 285 engineers found that 85% don't use Twitter. More than half indicated that the statement 'I don't really care what you had for breakfast' best sums up their feelings about it." Reader mattnyc99 notes a related article in which the authors analyzed the content of tweets during a recent World Cup game, finding 76% of them to be useless.
"Out of 1,000 tweets with the #worldcup hashtag during the game, only 16 percent were legitimate news and 7.6 percent were deemed 'legitimate conversation' — which leaves 6 percent spam, 24 percent self-promotion, about 17 percent re-tweets, and a whopping 29 percent of useless observation (like this). Is the mainstream media making too big a deal out of the avalanche of World Cup tweets, or is the world literally flooding the zone?"
Twitter is one those ideas that anyone could have thought up over a beer and implemented in a long weekend of hacking, and it could also have been done in 1995. Why didn't I get rich by doing just that? Because I'm apparently a fucking moron, who was too dumb to realize that apparently everybody else on the planet was dying for a one-to-many version of SMS with an artificial 140-character limitation.
I suspect that's why many developers dislike Twitter. It makes everyone who hears about it feel stupid and out of touch.
The last thing I need is more noise. That's why I don't use twitter. Besides, 160 characters doesn't exactly lend itself to worthwhile discourse.
Haha, yet your comment is only 145 characters! Noise you say? Yeah, you have no need for that...
-Taylor
Worldwide Military budgets: $2100 billion. Worldwide Space Exploration budgets: $38 billion. Really, world? Really?
33% is less than one third.
water still wet
space still cold and empty
engineers don't get the point of being social.
something is news here?
I'm a 25 year old engineer and I love twitter, because I like to know what my friends are doing.
That 3rd-to-last word - not sure I know what it means. Not sure it it's important.
Edith Keeler Must Die
The 90% rule came at a time when there were barriers to becoming published. Now the barriers have disappeared now it should be 99.999% is crap, the other .0001% was written by me.
Uhhhh.....I wouldn't be so sure about that: http://twitter.com/the_vuvuzela/
On a more serious note, what percentage of people are "interesting" enough to have worthwhile tweets?
They don't always drink beer, but when they do, they prefer Dos Equis.
Mind the frickin' laser...
"'I don't really care what you had for breakfast' "
Let me go on.
I don't give a rip what color shoes you're wearing - or even if you're wearing shoes today.
I don't give a rat's ass that your dog escaped, and that you tore your panty hose while chasing him down.
I never care whether you put make up on, let alone whether it matches your clothes.
NO ONE cares how much you like your inlaws - not even your inlaws.
Only six or eight people in the whole wide world cares that your special other made you feel good last night, and if you're not married, five of those six or eight wants to punch you in the face.
I give less than a rat's ass which team is your favorite.
I think your choice of automobile is a sign of latent homosexuality.
I think your girlfreind/boyfreind is a dyke/flaming queer.
Your BOSS uses your tweets as jokes to prove how stupid you are.
Yo MAMA uses your tweets as jokes to prove how stupid you are!
Why in hell do you think your dog was trying to escape, anyway? He's sick of your inane tweets!
I'm sure that others can add to this list. And, no, I'm not looking for freinds, so don't add me to your twitter/facebook/myspace/MSN/etc/etc/etc account.
"Windows is like the faint smell of piss in a subway: it's there, and there's nothing you can do about it." - Charlie Br
I would put it this way, twits generally don't become engineers.
The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted. James Madison
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You take one sparrow. It tweets and at times it might sound soothing, even if you don't understand what's it saying.
...And there are a few more iterations until you reach Twitter's real flock size.
Take two sparrows. They might sound even nicer if their tweets match to form music.
Take a thousand sparrows. They make such a horrible sound, you'd wish not being there at all.
Take a hundred thousand sparrows. You'll start to prefer vuvuzelas!
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
and i don't care
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
I swear, I read that and the brass section in the back of my head immediately started up:
WebFINGER!! (Dah DAAAH daah!)
He's the man, the man with the browser touch...
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