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Offline ScouseBoy

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Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« on: Friday 17 June 16 11:02 BST (UK) »
Is Twitter  just for teen-agers and the young generation?

Or does it have anything to offer  to retired people?

is it just for Attention Seekers?
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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 17 June 16 11:28 BST (UK) »

Well I'm no teenager... ;) I've found it quite useful for instant local news, traffic problems etc...

I was signed up to it, but I've turned it off now, because in my experience you get bombarded with stuff you don't want:-(

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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 17 June 16 12:37 BST (UK) »
Its "less worse" than Facebook!

I use it for business to suppliment mailouts. I use "lists" extensively to filter out the things that I am interested in and often only bother to check things where I have been explicitly tagged.

What annoys me is the people who just retweet everything in their timeline. I have stopped following a couple of accounts because there was no chance of spotting something relevant among all the dross
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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 17 June 16 12:48 BST (UK) »
Those below the age of 21 in my house tell me that no-one under the age of 30 uses Twitter - "it's for old people" apparently who "think they are up with it" but are "just so not". And, looking at who is maniacally tweeting it seems that the assessment could well be correct.
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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 17 June 16 13:44 BST (UK) »


I have a Twitter account but hardly use it
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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 17 June 16 13:52 BST (UK) »
I believe it is losing popularity and is in trouble financially.

http://time.com/4216413/twitter-stock-user-growth-users-twtr/

If you think it might be useful, give it a try.

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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 17 June 16 13:56 BST (UK) »
I think its for the birds!
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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 17 June 16 14:34 BST (UK) »
I use it to to have tweets from the football club I follow during live games,plus news etc throughout the year..

Very rarely post anything but, it can be handy to receive info from (other than footie matches...) any body/organisation that interests you.

Doesn't cost you anything and if not for you, it can be binned.

Easy enough to register which is the only way to see what it's all about unfortunately.

Hope this helps, Andrew.

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Re: Is Twitter worth looking at, please?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 17 June 16 15:29 BST (UK) »
What would you want to use it for?

I used to look for posts from one or two people which I think you can still do as a search without joining Twitter.
I then joined in order to receive information from an organisation I am involved with but my account is private. I now follow 6 people/organisations whose posts I enjoy reading or for information.
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