Who's on Twitter?

[Spun Lepton]

I do not understand Twitter's appeal. I log in and it's just a garbage dump of useless information, like Facebook concentrate.

[EyesWideOpen]

I do not understand Twitter's appeal. Somebody without ADHD explain it to me.

I never post but I follow a bunch of comedians, personalities, etc that I really like. I spend maybe 10 minutes a day looking through my feed while I've got downtime at work.

[Irish]

I do not understand Twitter's appeal. I log in and it's just a garbage dump of useless information, like Facebook concentrate.

That's pretty much it in a nutshell.

Although-- you can trip into some fun communities if you out start following larger amounts of people. And there are people out there with every kind of interest (80s VHS collectors, trash horror, psychotronic, sci fi, pulp, whatever).

I've had some good interactions with people from all over, which is fun. A lot of folks use it like Eyes does, as a form of ersatz RSS, too. It can be a pretty good way to keep up with news &c.

[Watashi]

I follow mostly movie critics/bloggers. It's fun observing the reactions of highbrow film critics clash with the bloggers when big movie news drops.

[ledfloyd]

It's all about who you follow. I follow mostly critics, journalists, and economists. With some comedians and media personalities sprinkled in. I dig it.

[DSNT]

I follow mostly movie critics/bloggers. It's fun observing the reactions of highbrow film critics clash with the bloggers when big movie news drops.

This. Aside from big movie news, I tend to only read my feed during event type things, like Oscars, Emmys, Game of Thrones episodes, etc.

[Gizmo]

I constantly forget I have a twitter account. I think I follow like 10 people/things, one of which is Match-cut from when the server was going down all the time.

[Sycophant]

I follow so many people that reading my feed feels intimidating and I rarely do it anymore.

[Ezee E]

Love it for instant reactions from all different types of people for just about everything (restaurants, movies, sports, etc).

Movie opinions are always fun to read. It also sends me to good articles that I would never read about otherwise.

It's the fastest way to get movie news too, albeit, all the bloggers will post the same damn news on their site once Variety posts it. That part is kind of annoying, but I do laugh at how they try to pass it off as their own.

There's also some funny stuff that gets posted.

[number8]

I think with any social media, the quality of the service entirely depends on the quality of people you choose to interact with.

[MadMan]

I have ADD so naturally I love Twitter

I enjoy using it to talk film, politics and random subjects. Also there is something oddly satisfying about your posts being retweeted or favorited by someone.

[Dukefrukem]

Twitter is amazing for customer service.

[shaun]

I agree. A completely unprovoked response.

[Dukefrukem]

Whoa. Not a fan of the new design.

[Skitch]

Whoa. Not a fan of the new design.

Its mentally deranged. I assume it was meant for a better phone experience or something.

[Irish]

It's terrible, yeah. Surprised they removed their logo from the header. There's no branding on the page.

I could deal with a new layout but I can't deal with the constant interjections --- tweets you missed, people to follow, what everyone liked. I just wanna see the tweets and nothing else, ffs.

Anyway, I saw a preview some months back and immediately turned it off.

[Skitch]

The "tweets you missed" pinging notifications is the absolute worst.

[Ezee E]

I swear I've turned that off multiple times and I keep getting them.

[Dukefrukem]

I swear I've turned that off multiple times and I keep getting them.

THIS!

[baby doll]

So this is a thing that happened.

[bac0n]

My solution is I just stopped going to twitter back in January. Just couldn't handle all the hate and bile and more.

[Ivan Drago]

I'm using it to live tweet wrestling shows I watch from home and post my movie reviews.

I'm really getting tired of the hive mind there making me feel like I'm the worst person in the world over slight disagreements.

[Irish]

OMG I just looked again and they changed it up from the preview. (But hey, at least the branding is back?)

At fullscreen on a laptop, tweets take a third of the page and the rest is given over to immovable frames / sticky columns. I find it hard to read that way. Looks like the site was designed mostly for mobile.

My solution is I just stopped going to twitter back in January. Just couldn't handle all the hate and bile and more.

I would do this but too many publications ditched RSS in favor of social media. Twitter is one of the few ways to get a read on a hobby at a glance.

[Ezee E]

I'm using it to live tweet wrestling shows I watch from home and post my movie reviews.

I'm really getting tired of the hive mind there making me feel like I'm the worst person in the world over slight disagreements.

Wrestling shows? Those totally objectify the human body bruh, and to belittle our minds in thinking they're real? BLOCKED.

[TGM]

Film twitter has become a complete nuclear wasteland.

I log on almost exclusively for Babymetal twitter anymore. Much more positive environment.

It's kinda funny though, I even have a friend on there who similarly almost exclusively talked about movies on twitter. And I wanna say around the same time I stopped talking about movies and moved on to other things (on the rare occasion I actually even post anymore, which I genuinely don't even feel comfortable doing most of the time anymore. Mostly just browse now), I noticed that he also stopped talking about movies, and now he exclusively discusses baseball. Guess some of us are just having to switch to different passions to discuss now that the conversation in this particular passion has gotten as relentlessly ugly as it has. XP