Twitter-curious

I've held out all this time, but I'm curious. Seems to be popular, and if nothing else breaking news is heading this way more and more. Anyone else use it? Or am I (& my mom) the last hold-outs?

Certainly not the last hold out.

Not even on the book of faces.

BTW, my news source puts breaking news on it's headline. Works for me.

I would love to know how to set up Twitter alerts, I think it would be awesome for using it as a breaking news source

I peruse my feed every few days, more often if there's a big event going on. If you're a sports fan, it's nice to be able to see people's real-time reactions during a game.

But I still use RSS for news.

Sign up for Twitter and follow those that publish the alerts. For example, I follow the Colorado DOT so I know what's going on with the roads in the mountains. It's an annoying platform because it's always suggesting I'm interested in whatever the current celebrity "news" is, but you do get info on things that don't necessarily make the headlines if that's what you want.

Another Twitter holdout here. I do check certain sports journalists' accounts for news during the busy times of the year for that kind of stuff, as Twitter seems to have become about the most up to date source. I see no utility in it for me personally outside of that.

I do have a Facebook, but I could count on one hand the number of times I've been on it in the last year and I have literally never changed my profile picture. I think it's going on 9 years old now.

No interest in making myself a Twitter account here, but I thought adding some accounts to my RSS feeds could make sense, however it turns out Twitter disabled this feature to force everyone to use their app. So that was my brief brush with any interest in Twitter.

Twitter was the hot thing about 4 years ago. I joined about 3 years ago. It seems to be dying rapidly, or maybe I just don't follow the right people.

I also thought maybe it would be fun to follow certain people. Not so much pop stars, actors. But like drivers I might like, Bruce Campbell should be a hoot. Hell, I'm even thinking Trump might give some hilarity.

I'll admit I've enjoyed my Facebook since my Navy friend convinced me in 2009. Reconnected with a handful of them, plenty of local friends, and it's a great way to keep up on racing stuff quickly. Plus my friends like seeing my pit bull so there's that... (Also, every single friend is someone I know. berkeley that 24,323 "friends" thing.)

I'm a Twitter fan as it's an easy way to keep track of news--both from motorsports as well as the "real" world. I also use it to keep track of bands so I know who's on the road. It's also been a useful way to contact writers.

You choose what you want to receive, too, so it's fairly well tailored to your needs/desires.

I'd say try it out. If you like it, stick with it. If not, you can just walk away.

Bruce Campbell tweets well. Follow him at @GroovyBruce. I'm at @DavidSWallens.

I have an account to follow Motorsports for the most part. Other than that I follow ODOT for road stuff and thats it.

I signed up for twitter a few years and tried it out for about a day. I couldn't understand most of the things on there. It almost felt like a foreign language. I never went back.

I dont use twitter or instagram and that is apparently weird for people my age but i see no use for you.

In reply to dropstep:

I do use Instagram quite a bit. Cars, pit bulls, pin up girls. Something for everyone. SWMBO said I should use the same Instagram name to keep it simple.

It's fairly handy in science for the simple reason that it lets you follow your colleagues on a more personal level. For that same reason, it's a good way to make a reasonable impression and be "pre-networked" for conferences. No one looks at LinkedIn or ResearchGate for fun and no one makes Facebook a public experience (for darn good reason). Twitter is pretty solid for being "in between." It's also easy to discover on Google which gives you a public profile you control.

What is this RSS feed you keep referencing?

i follow @DavidSWallens he's pretty good. it's nice to keep up with sports stuff for me, and usually put up car stuff a few times a week, more when i'm mid build. @patguzowski is mine.

You can read people's twitter posts without signing up for it, so that's an option.

I'm not much for Twitter.

I do enjoy Instagram. David posts some good pictures and I follow a lot of the different racers. Jordan Taylor posts some really funny stuff and tracking Fernando Rees work-out plans in the off season was cool as well. I post some stuff on there from the different races I work as well. Got some cool pics from the COTA PWC round. My screen name is the same on instagram.

Honestly, one of the best things about Twitter is the parody accounts. Fake Kimi Raikkonen, Not Sportscenter, Nihilist Arbys, Bored Elon Musk, Faux Jon Gruden, Sports Dad, and of course, God.

Also worth a watch: https://twitter.com/Super70sSports

David S. Wallens wrote: I'm a Twitter fan as it's an easy way to keep track of news--both from motorsports as well as the "real" world. I also use it to keep track of bands so I know who's on the road. It's also been a useful way to contact writers.

EVO magazine gives out twitter handles for all its writers at part of every byline. It's the only way to contact them. So if I see that one of them is having trouble with a long-term Miata, my only option to contact them is to tag them in a public tweet. Retarded. Maybe I'm old, but it's a stupid way to carry on a conversation.

I'm not saying that it's the only way to contact writers. But if I see a writer who I like, for me it's been a neat/convenient way to follow them and eventually open the doors of communication. Or it's at least a way to see what they think about stuff. As with most things in life, YMMV.

Plus Gerald Casale follows me. I still think that's pretty rad.

And for me, it's just another way to communicate--kind of like a tool. Different tools for different jobs or situations.

I'm on it, i follow too many people. It's not as exciting as i thought it was going to be. meh.