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Why You Tolerate Twitter

May 27, 2008 – 12:45 pm

Jesus I look bad.

Posted in 1938 Media, Ego, Twitter


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  1. 32 Responses to “Why You Tolerate Twitter”

  2. Seriously spot on appraisal of twitter. Now the real question is, how do we all find a way to get paid to have a meaningful existence in front of a computer that doesn’t require us to look for validation from others?

    By kitch on May 27, 2008

  3. How would you compare Twitter to the catch-all OT area on a large community forum?

    By Dave Cynkin on May 27, 2008

  4. Motivational. I like it.

    By silvrstar on May 27, 2008

  5. You just realized that? we like twitter because we’re bored and it provides some random and meaningless distraction? that’s kind of obvious

    I’m always using the web to get an instant reward, like instant lottery. For me, twitter is the fastest fix.

    By stupendous on May 27, 2008

  6. Loren,

    You make some fine points but the beauty of Twitter is you can shape it to serve any need you may have - boredom, entertainment, information, marketing, whatever. And you turn off the darn thing any time you want. :)

    mark

    By Mark Evans on May 27, 2008

  7. Drip…drip…drip…drip…drip…

    It’s a drug.

    Frequent, but inconsistent and somewhat unpredictable reward, which produces a momentary high. If we could do live PET brain scans on heavy Twitter users I guarantee it would look exactly like hitting an opiate all day, clinically.

    I’ll even go as far as to say the frequent outages (as long as it comes back each time) actually reinforce this feedback mechanism and dig users in a little deeper each time.

    By Dave Johnston on May 27, 2008

  8. Sadly, it’s completely true.

    By Kyle Dylan Conner on May 27, 2008

  9. I jumped out of my chair when he said ” Loren Feldman, 1938Media.. But to stay on topic.. Far from bored.. ecspecially @ Mahalo Labs..Wait!!! Does Jason Own iT??
    MahaloLabs.Com?

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    TwitterVision..East Palo Alto, Ca

    By Uplink on May 27, 2008

  10. It’d have been a lot more ironic if you’d said that with the Scoble puppet ;-)

    By Peter Cooper on May 27, 2008

  11. In every joke there’s a grain of truth so even if Loren isn’t being funny here on purpose (and it is funny), he does point out what some of us don’t want to accept.

    By chris h. on May 27, 2008

  12. Twitter sucks.

    By Sam Donaldson on May 27, 2008

  13. lol bored with life? if only we all had your life of sucking valleymen’s cocks.

    By Jas on May 27, 2008

  14. Twitter has proven itself to be nothing more than a toy for me. Whenever I do post a serious query, I get nothing back.

    “Wisdom in crowds”. A dumber thing was never said.

    Blow me.

    By Art Lindsey III on May 27, 2008

  15. Loren is cooler than you all. Bow down.

    By Tim on May 27, 2008

  16. A-FUCKING-MEN. I can appreciate that view on things as someone who also feels alot of ’success’ relates to psychological triggers/habits/whatnotandwhathaveyou. Very good insight.

    By Josh on May 27, 2008

  17. @Josh wipe the semen off your chin, son..

    By Tim on May 27, 2008

  18. lots of vitriol on this board, you all need more cardio

    By nick beam on May 27, 2008

  19. @nick beam - I agree, we’re all some hateful bastards, with not much else to do. But Loren likes us that way. :)

    By Tim on May 27, 2008

  20. Interesting video. I don’t get a lot of comments yet, but haven’t resorted to Twitter.

    By S.P. Gass on May 27, 2008

  21. Comments don’t mean shit. Just do your thing and don’t worry about it. That’s what I do.

    By Loren Feldman on May 27, 2008

  22. I use Twitter to share things with other, feelings opinions and links… feedback is important, but Twitter will never replace our blogs.

    By Edoardo Piccolotto on May 28, 2008

  23. You are so right.

    By alexandru savu on May 28, 2008

  24. We put up with it because it just doesn’t matter. Twitter is nice. If it went away tomorrow WHO CARES. If it’s down, WHO CARES. All I would miss is one of Dave Winers driveling little posts.

    By ChiliMac on May 28, 2008

  25. Actually, I tolerate Twitter because every time you Tweet about Julia Allison, my cell phone vibrates in my pocket.

    Like.
    Right.
    Now….

    By DJ on May 28, 2008

  26. Maybe you should try this service instead…

    http://tinyurl.com/24pxjd

    By Leigh on May 29, 2008

  27. I think Twitter just adds to the suffocating boredom that people are feeling. It just piles it on even deeper.

    But its okay for some things.

    like all of the Obama/political tweets. I don’t get how it fuels so many people’s passion. I can’t relate to it at all. It just makes me feel sad. I don’t believe it is real, but most would disagree saying its the most real thing there is in life.

    so it goes.

    By Jecklin on May 30, 2008

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