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Originally Posted by manicdepressive07
This may just be me ranting because I've tried making a twitter account and frankly didn't get the point of it... but I'm curious to know how many people have twitter accounts? Or what you think about it?
I get why celebrities and business owners who want to promote their product have twitter... but I don't get why average everyday people have it. What am I missing? I mean I hate to sound harsh but nobody can possibly care what you're doing at all hours of the day lol.
Plus isn't that what facebook is for? For keeping your family/friends updated on your life. I have facebook and I make meaningless posts probably every other day or so... but twitter is like CONSTANT meaningless updates, and I can't possibly think of why someone would want to tell the world what they're thinking, eating, and doing every hour on the hour.
What do you guys think?
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Haha! Well I have a Twitter account, and I rarely update but I do use the search function. What twitter does for me is say, a year ago there was an earthquake swarm in California that I was super interested in. I don't live in California so I didn't see much on my local news about it. When I entered it into twitter, I had thousands of real-time messages from people who were experiencing the swarm first hand.
Also, I allow my twitter account to post on behalf of others who are in danger. For instance, there is a man named Yousef Nadarkhani in Iran who was being held in prison for over two years because he didn't want to be a Muslim. He had a wife and two young sons. He was set to be executed by hanging in September 2012. Because of the pressure that was put on the Iranian Government by folks keeping it at the forefront (we haven't forgotton you Yousef etc.) he was released and is currently home with his wife and family. So there's multiple reasons to use it although I don't use it often.
