ever since following @twitcoast on twitter, you havent helped me at all with, really anything. who is behind @twitcoast!? you blew up my twitter homepage with crap about the transit meeting you were in today, with bullshit. i should be ashamed to say i have twitter ANYWAYS, but it puts a bigger damper on things when i think i have alot to catch up on, and its a dialogue of the stupid meeting you are at, Mr/Mrs. mystery twitter-er for the coast, piss off and inform me of something good!!!
—Annoyed & Ashamed Twitterer
This article appears in Oct 22-28, 2009.
I love twitcoast! If you notice he or she is at a meeting and tweeting a lot you can just unfollow for the day. But a lot of people out there appreciate the updates, including me!
Keep your head up, OP….I might just slam into you while you’re checking your twitter updates…
Just more evidence that Twitter is more annoying than useful. I’m waiting for the time when people Twitter while taking a shit.
All tweets are a waste of time. Except mine. Follow me: “Miles the Twit”
twitter = twits.
I’m either too young or too old to ‘get’ this twitter stuff. I don’t have a cell phone yet so I’m probably just not techy savvy enough to appreciate the attraction maybe.
Twitter keeping me informed?! This is not what I signed up for!!
I love the council live blogging. Keep it up!
Clearly, you don’t pay taxes, otherwise you’d care about the sometimes ridiculous bullshit that happens at city hall. I love @twitcoast’s live council blogging. If you don’t like it, unfollow him.
I still have no clue what twitter is…
I just started twitter. a friend told me to follow someone. I found the coast.
I dont care for politics but thought it was amazing that someone was sitting in on a city council meeting and giving me a play by play of what was happening.
The goings on at City Hall are def worth paying attention to. Thanks, The Coast.
This whole “twitting” phase is sadly indicative of the demise of written communication in our world. It started with the newsprint in the 70’s – it got bigger, especially at the beginning of each article.
Even now, if you look at some of the rags that pass for newspapers around the country…you see the font diminish in size as the article proceeds…it’s been shown that MOST readers never finish anyway, that’s the point.
More and more publications are overrun with short, cheap and cheerful ‘articles’ that hold our 21st century attention spans, which have become as brief as poss…oh look! Cows!
Have you seen the National Geographic lately? It used to contain 4-5 in-depth articles in total…now it reads like a coffee-table book, one “item” per page. Just when you want to know more, we’re off to Madagascar for another monkey pic!
Of course t’internet takes the cake…facts and figures come fast and furious and the average “news” item is about the length of a playmate’s bio, before we are distracted by dancing babies or an incoming email…
…and now we have adults, who just a few short years ago were chastising their teens for communicating in txt spk, and ignoring grammar for brevity…suddenly communicating with this assinine twitter…using all the same ridiculous abbreviations that their kids did to get the message through in 140 characters!
The emporer has no clothes, folks, wake up!
and he can’t possible rule his kingdom (or make meaningful, non trite reports about his city hall or anywhere else, in 140 characters…
…evn wit kul n clvr txts…
This twitter nonsense will be joining the hula-hoop, internet-fridge, corporate retreats, self-help gurus and chicken soup books and other stupid middle-aged fads in the near future…
Well said Frosty..
I find the play-by-play coverage of the council meetings informative and entertaining. I appreciate that someone else actually sits through those meetings (which is surely a test of their patience) and passes along all of the issues/points raised. You never know, maybe knowing that someone is observing the goings on and reporting it to over 2000 people will result in more on point meetings and an improved level of decorum.