"Armed with a bit of knowledge about what Twitter is all about, share your thoughts on this fast growing online phenomenon."
Maybe I missed something in the translation, because after reading the "About" stuff, I'm still not actually sure I do have any type of knowledge about what Twitter is all about. Actually, there was no translation. When I got the the home page, there were "tweets" scrolling up through the center of my screen. It was a foreign language and I had no idea who any of them were, or what any of them were talking about.
I searched something. I typed in "quilting". I randomly picked a person to further read what they were saying. I couldn't follow any thread of consistent conversation at all - and there was nothing to do with quilting beyond the sentence that my search found - "got two new piercings and am doing some quilting".
So my question back is "why?". And my next question is "what's the point?" I know what the "About" blurb says but honestly, that doesn't really answer those questions in a satisfactory manner either. If I thought that Facebook was narcissistic, this is even more so. And I am way too busy to be following anyone tweeting. I can't see that Twitter has any kind of life-enhancing quality about it whatsoever, and am at a loss to explain why it is so popular. It must be related to the mentality that makes people slow down and rubberneck whilst driving past a car crash.
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