I ‘m a fan of Twitter, and have been for some time.  I find it useful as a site promotional tool, and also just plain fun and ‘social ‘ for talking sports or various other topics with friends.   I also realize that lots of people find it more than a bit silly, or ‘non-productive ‘.  […]
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OT: The Ever-Brilliant Stephen Fry’s Take on Twitter’s Usefulness

Aug 22nd 2009 by

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I ‘m a fan of Twitter, and have been for some time.  I find it useful as a site promotional tool, and also just plain fun and ‘social ‘ for talking sports or various other topics with friends.   I also realize that lots of people find it more than a bit silly, or ‘non-productive ‘.  I always struggle for any sort of response to those folks.  Luckily the always-brilliant Stephen Fry has delivered a perfect one

Apparently, according to Pears (the soapmakers presumably “ certainly their ‘study ‘ is froth and bubble) 40% of Twitter is ‘pointless babble ‘, (http://is.gd/2mKSg) which means of course that a full 60% of Twitter discourse is NOT pointless babble, which is disappointing. Very disappointing. I would have hoped 100% of Twitter was fully free of earnestness, usefulness and commercial intent. Why do these asinine reports jump onto a bandwagon they don ‘t understand and why do those reporting on them relate with such glee that a service that was never supposed in the first place to be more than gossipy tittle-tattle and proudly banal verbal doodling is ‘failing to deliver meaningful commercial or political content ‘. Bollocky bollocks to the lot of them.

Check out his full post, and lots more of his all-round brilliance, HERE.

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