Why You Tolerate Twitter

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1. kitch said on May 27th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

   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?

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2. Dave Cynkin said on May 27th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

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

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3. silvrstar said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:14 pm

   Motivational. I like it.

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4. stupendous said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

   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.

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5. Mark Evans said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

   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

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6. Dave Johnston said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:17 pm

   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.

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7. Kyle Dylan Conner said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:39 pm

   Sadly, it’s completely true.

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8. Uplink said on May 27th, 2008 at 1:58 pm

   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??
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9. Peter Cooper said on May 27th, 2008 at 2:05 pm

   It’d have been a lot more ironic if you’d said that with the Scoble puppet

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10. chris h. said on May 27th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

    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.

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11. Sam Donaldson said on May 27th, 2008 at 4:32 pm

    Twitter sucks.

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12. Jas said on May 27th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

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

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13. Art Lindsey III said on May 27th, 2008 at 6:27 pm

    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.

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14. Tim said on May 27th, 2008 at 7:58 pm

    Loren is cooler than you all. Bow down.

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15. Josh said on May 27th, 2008 at 8:48 pm

    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.

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16. Tim said on May 27th, 2008 at 10:29 pm

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

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17. nick beam said on May 27th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

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

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18. Tim said on May 27th, 2008 at 10:35 pm

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

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19. S.P. Gass said on May 27th, 2008 at 10:49 pm

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

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20. Loren Feldman said on May 27th, 2008 at 11:41 pm

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

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21. Edoardo Piccolotto said on May 28th, 2008 at 3:59 am

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

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22. alexandru savu said on May 28th, 2008 at 5:08 am

    You are so right.

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23. ChiliMac said on May 28th, 2008 at 5:34 pm

    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.

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24. DJ said on May 28th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

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

    Like.
    Right.
    Now….

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25. Leigh said on May 29th, 2008 at 10:39 pm

    Maybe you should try this service instead…

    http://tinyurl.com/24pxjd

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26. Jecklin said on May 30th, 2008 at 9:41 am

    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.

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