Comments on: Pointless babble

By: mikevale

mikevale — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 19:02:47 +0000

pointless babble? this is a different thing. it’s spontaneous and it’s called “wit”.

By: I_written_books

I_written_books — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 08:00:18 +0000

I certainly enjoyed that. And I think you´re both funny enough and serious enough to deserve a little rave. But I also think that the person leading the phenomenon should excercise more awareness: Is it not so, that when the most followed person on Twitter is defending the service, he is essencially defending himself? You speak of Twitter as an established form of communication, but it´s in the making, being created as we speak – and you are one of the strong gods.
This reminds me of Lance Armstrong, when he won the Tour de France for the 7th time, and declared how great the tour is, Vive le tour et cetera, when all I could hear was Lance is great, Vive Lance!

Only a thought, if you catch my drift

best wishes and regards,
I-w-b

By: amyl_nitrate

amyl_nitrate — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:02:20 +0000

Eurgh that is just typical. Not everything has to have some kind of value or purpose. Some things should be fun and free. It makes me sad when even your free-time and pursuits of leisure have to have some kind of structure and purpose. It sucks all the fun and joy out of life.

By: dragonone

dragonone — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:00:57 +0000

It is a pity that a bunch of humourless jerks feel the need to spoil the fun. I have never really seen the point of statistics. If you take a sample and analyse that sample, all your findings actually point to is that statistically you have achieved accuracy over your sample. Set against the numbers of people who actually twitter, I would have to conclude that these statistics are “pointless babble”.

By: biscuitcrumb

biscuitcrumb — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:51:43 +0000

Crumbs. Bollocky bollocks indeed. I guess part of the information revolution means that everyone, even every soap maker, can have an opinion about everything. Who cares about their percentages, 40 of this and 60 of that: a complete froth of fragrance free bubbles.

By: April

April — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 04:54:38 +0000

I think I’ll put “Bollocky bollocks to the lot of them” on a t-shirt. Unless that would mean I’d owe you money. In that case I won’t. And if you ever see a young lady wearing such a t-shirt, it wasn’t my idea. . .

By: gjhsu

gjhsu — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:24:17 +0000

inckognito says: “Me thinks, Twitter seems to be a pointless quick verbal mutual masturbation, as well. Just sayin my opinion…
xxx”

You say that like it’s a bad thing :p

By: Tony Fisk

Tony Fisk — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 01:13:54 +0000

They can found their own “enterprise oriented” earnest microblogging service.

Avoid, for example, MessageMedia.

I really should try Twitter, just to see what the fuss is about. The trouble is, I’m not a great one for idle chit-chat.

By: Kieran

Kieran — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:12:58 +0000

I love you, Stephen, and I want to have your babies.

By: flippet

flippet — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:12:08 +0000

Whee! I’m loving these new miniblog entries. I don’t Twitter (I’m not that chatty, don’t see the point for myself, really), but instead I subscribe to the blog entries through an RSS feed deposited right into my LiveJournal. How exciting it was to see two entries in rapid succession! So excited was I, that I was persuaded to drop by and actually register for the site, just to leave this little love note.

I may not twitter, tweet or sing, but I do like to watch. I hope this new app is amusing enough that it will get used often.