Twitter is fucking retarded
So I played with it for a while. Cracked jokes. Followed famous people. Followed not-so-famous people. Geolocated myself. Posted pictures via twitpic or douchetweet or fuckchirp or whatever lamprey-like fly-by-night jackass service reared up to add the moronic and superfluous features that the folks at Twitter were smart enough to originally eschew.
And my verdict is: It’s retarded. It’s AOL keywords.
It’s the CB radio of the 2000’s.
For all the connectivity Twitter supposedly offers, it offers no genuine connections at all. Everything is passive. You send out a “tweet”1 into the universe with no idea or clue that anyone will answer. You have no idea if anyone heard you. You have no indication that anyone cares. It’s just a firehose of the pointless flotsam and jetsam of cultural minutia and lifestyle effluvium, delivered in a lightly distracting, OM NOM NOM-style all-you-can-eat infotainment/ego-casting stream to whatever millennial-enabled wireless device you’re willing to hook into it2.
It’s like talking to yourself, out loud, on the bus. And it offers just about the same amount of useful feedback.
If Twitter is the future of online communication, or the future of blogging and/or journalism: I’m out. I want the communication I spend my ever-decreasing amount of free time on to be richer, clearer; not constrained by arbitrary limitations based on the maximum length of SMS text messages.
1 I never thought I’d hate a single word more than the word ‘blog,’ but here we are.
2 Also see: Facebook.
Twitter is so stupid and it annoys me how popular it is. So you type something and click post. Whoopty freakin doo. I was so pissed when MySpace started getting less popular. I mean its JUST LIKE FACEBOOK but better and with more features. I was forced to join Facebook because all of my friends were there and I had to keep in touch somehow. I hope this same thing doesn’t happen with Twitter. Or I swear I’m just going to quit all social networking sites.
Yes.. Twitter does indeed suck, I think its pointless. anyways to find this site I just typed in twitter is fucking retarded.
twitter. is. so. fucking. retarded. your article says it all and says it well.
twitter is stupid
Just my opinion but blogging and twitter are both fucking stupid. It’s funny how even news shows have segments about what people are blogging. It’s bad enough we have to endure the morons on tv, but now any fucking douchebag with an internet connection is suddenly a journalist.
twitter is fucking gay as hell!
just another brainless fad eaten up by the brainless masses.
Twiiter is so Stupid to someone with an IT degree. GET A F…ing LIFE! This is so pathetic, get a pet rock. SO sad. F you all.
Haha I’m glad someone agreed with the exact google query i searched…
twitter isn’t retarded..ANYBODY who uses it is RETARDED
Such a great post, I didn’t know there were people left on the internet that weren’t complete technology outcasts and actually felt the way I do about a majority of the social networking sites and most importantly twiiter as being the worst
Not only did I agree with so much of the OP but also the following comments.
Tweek said: “twitter isn’t retarded..ANYBODY who uses it is RETARDED”
I COMPLETELY AGREE!!! Shit is seriously THE dumbest, useless, moronic… im running out of words! Why the fuck would anyone use this stupid shit??? If I ever hear someone say they want to go “tweet” I’m going to fucking shoot them in the head and put them out of their misery!
All said and done. this Jeff Hobbs is pretty active on twitter now and hasnt updated this post or written a new one to say why so?
Maybe cos he finally get’s it and has “wise”ned up to the ‘retarded’ service
The way you can tell that someone has heard is that someone retreats you.
Or, if you have a website, you look at the analytics for what people found on your site.
Or, if you link using a service like tr.im you can see the link analyitics.
Or… people write back.
Twitter sucks coz it’s being pushed like drugs by CNN & BBC.
These 2 networks are becoming so stupid and cheap, that they honestly think that relying on TWEETS (i hate saying that word) is better than traditional jounalism.
I swear they talk abt Twitter as if it’s the best thing that ever happend, but news flash duchebags, nobody cares.
Even if they did spend time tweeting, it’s just a stupid fad that will die out, maybe tomorrow.
I seriously believe ppl who tweet are spending too much time dispensing useless, or usefull information for free. And they’re getting abused by duchbag networks like CNN, BBC, and some say da CIA.
Whatever it is twitter is fuckin retarded.
I think you hit it on the nose. To think people really have enough time to let me know they are taking a shower or weed eating. However, the fact we are all here bastardising it gives it more undeserved publicity. Can you imagine opening up your back door and yelling to your neighbor, “Hey Fred, I’m getting ready to take a shit”. That’s pretty damn retarded. Or even better, calling up 5 people you’ve only met once and alerting them that you just bought a new ceiling fan. I mean come on. Have we lost the part of our brain that alerts us that people don’t give a shit about what you are doing 24/7/365? To sum my reply up, the media has given this POS way to much hyperbole. Lets all make a wish that twitter will find the shitter and the world will return to its normal gravitational pull. It’s kinda like that full moon phenomena where people haul ass down the highway about 140 Mph. after smoking a pound of Mexican Mota. Now on the flip side if someone tweeted me that they were taking a shower with a weed eater, then I might exercise my mind a little more for the visual.
Twitter – source of 21st century techonolgy that allows one to be stupid and think the world gives a crap
Twit – one who uses twitter
Douchetweet – female using twitter and utilizing Massengil at same time
Fuckchirp – a tweet that went beserk (that’s all of them)
Tweet – used to be a bird singing – now its a twit tweeting
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm where have all the flowers gone?
Twatter, er, Twitter IS truly retarded. I mean, is there really a need for a website where people have to describe what they’re doing every minute of the day? It’s called picking up a phone, hitting the dial button or “send text” option, and talking to the person (hell, even if people did THAT, it would get annoying after a while). Or if that’s out of someone’s league, they have this nifty new invention called AIM, specifically made for instant messaging.
I’ll admit, I am semi-addicted to the Internet. But still, reducing one’s self to the point that they need to follow their friends, or celebrity “friends” , 24/7 via online? That’s just desperate…
yay im not the only one who thinks so!
I have never used Twitter, but I hate it so much. It’s so annoying when people on TV talk about Celebs “tweets”. So gay. They are just desperate for attention, appartently. I have a myspace & facebook. Myspace is ok and I hate facebook. All of it just sucks now. People just want to show off their life and whatnot. Who cares…..
Fuckin ‘A’! You read my mind. I remember when the Internet was all about sharing real information, not this social masturbatory shite.
well well well.
piece of shit twitter is now worth about about a billion dollars.
Hello guys,
Well I just found this post and let me tell you that I’m quite suprised I thought I was the only person on earth that hates Twitter, I’m glad I’m not the only one. At first i didn’t know whatt twitter was until I received an invitation from a college friend and I’ve just join but I found it useless, now I hate social websites, I had a facebook account but I close it two months ago since I discovered that if I want to talk to a friend I just call him/her, as simple as that I can’t see the point by having about 300 “friends” in my facebook list considering that people who I talk with are less than 10, it’s just stupid. Let me tell you that I’m Chilean, Chile has the largest number of facebook users in the world, can you believe that??? no comments…
ps: Twitter is almost the same as facebook but in a more stupid way.
The peice of rubbish made me try create two acounts just to find it wont let me login, which means i cant talk to my freinds.
twitter is fucking retarded bullshit that has polluted internet minds with the concept of pointlessness and made ignorance to the fact that not everybody cares. i couldnt agree with you more.
i dont know, but i never like twitter anyway
google is the most owesome search engine
I hated Twitter the first time, when it was called Myspace. ..and I hated that the first time around, when it was called Livejournal.. also, I hated that the first time, when it was called Xanga.
People who have thoughts and scribblings that are actually worth a good god damn, tend to maintain their own web site, with their own domain name. Free site = douchebaggery.
The irony. The only difference between your blog and twitter is the limit on characters.
twitter facebook blog is the same
meanm i fucking hate twitter!! its always gets packed and then they kick you off >:0
Twitter is the domain of the socially retarded (vast majority are Gen Y and tweens, which supports my point), D-list wannabes and oxygen thieves. All tweeters (or whatever the fucktards are called) should be made to enrol on a public register and then be desexed so as they are never allowed to spawn. Either that or we just take a baseball bat to anybody who admits being as stupid as to use this wank of a site. The world already has too many fuckwits, let alone breeding a new generation of morons.
Just glad there are others who feel the same…
I CANT FIGURE OUT Y SO MANY PPL LIKE THAT BS TWITTER, I FIGURED LET ME SEE WHATS THIS ALL ABOUT, I FOUND OUT RATHER QUICK, ITS ABOUT NUTHING AND DELETED MY ACCOUNT WITHIN 2HRS IT AGGRIVATED THE SHIT OUT OF ME, THATS A LAME ASS SITE AND IF PPL PAY FOR IT ON MOBILE SERVICE LIKE ALOT OF CARRIES DO WELL U DESERVE TO HAVE UR MONEY TAKEN. THATS GOT TO BE ONE OF THE WORSE SITES I EVER VISITED
Sounds from your grammar, you are retarded too.
OBVIOUSLY U CANT READ OR NO WHAT THIS SITE IS OR UR HAVING A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS PPL WHO THINK TWITTER IS FUKING RETARDED, BUT COMING FRM A WITTLESS TWIT LIKE U THATS QUITE UNDERSTANDABLE AND ITS OK THAT U ROAD THE SMALL BUS TO SCHOOL.
FUCK TWITTER FUCK TWITTER FUCK TWITTER ,bunch of losers, they suspended my account since the first day i signed up , RACIST MOTHEFUCKERS OR WHAT?? and then i created another account and this morning ,its suspended too ….what a bunch of assholes !!!
i just cant get it !!im no spammer ,no offender, no terrorist…so what the fuck,im so offended,spammed and terrorized!!
ahh ,maybe i think they only allow people to tweet about pure nonsensical BULLSHIT so guys like me who try to do sth else ,to tweet about knowledge, about things that r interesting and informative r NOT ALLOWED and get suspended!
BUNCH OF FUCKTARDS !!
sorry u guys for that ,i just needed somewhere to let out my anger