maqroll Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 What it says on the tin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choffer Posted October 6, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2018 (edited) Bob Schneider Frank Sidebottom Juan Pablo Angel Ben Folds Trevor Linden Edited October 6, 2018 by choffer Oh wait, you said ten? I’ll be back to edit later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Barry Town SC Heart of the Holte BBC Radio 6 Alabama 3 Sam Carter (folk musician) Spillers Records Hogso (of this parish) and a bunch of local mates, mostly local football and politics related I am a bloke of regular and simple tastes. Been on there 7 years, only follow less than 200 accounts in total. Use it mostly for the direct message facility getting local football stuff planned and queues jumped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 6, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2018 Don't follow anybody. I have a Twitter account, but I never use it. I genuinely don't see the point of it. Facebook does everything Twitter does, and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Just now, mjmooney said: Don't follow anybody. I have a Twitter account, but I never use it. I genuinely don't see the point of it. Facebook does everything Twitter does, and more. Yeah, opposite for me. In the last couple of months I've got my first ever facebook account and can't see what the big deal is. I keep forgetting to bother to log in. So I just use the messenger app to talk to my nippers who don't really do old school phone texting. It's not giving me anything twitter doesn't, but the FB layout is a clunky mess, whereas twitter is clean and direct. I guess it depends on where the momentum of people with similar interests are. For me, talking to the record shop, the printers, the local restaurant, local councillors, football mates etc., they've all adopted twitter as a main communication route. So I've gravitated there. Little gang of us going to a gig this evening that's all been arranged via twitter. I guess the trick with either platform is having like minded people or groups on there and understanding how to use it. Neither is a good substitute for a face to face catch up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 6, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2018 Yeah, fair point. I tend to use WhatsApp for the social organisation. It's true that the FB layout is crap (used to be OK, but they keep tinkering and making it worse), but almost everyone in my family and friends uses it, so adding Twitter to the social media scrum would just be (literally) a waste of time. Also, I have a pathological hatred of the actual words "Twitter" and "Tweet". Cringeworthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted October 6, 2018 Moderator Share Posted October 6, 2018 I've control 4 Twitter accounts, three of them are work-related plus my own which I've really only just started using with any great regularity and rarely post much at all, I use it for keeping an eye on politics and music and I'm determined it won't cross-pollinate with the work stuff. I essentially think Social Media, in general, is currently the devil's work and the negatives on any platform outweigh the positives. I'm also on Reddit but again mainly lurk. My FB posting has decreased dramatically I try to take from it what I want and give as little as possible back to the platforms My favourite Social Media, where I interact the most is VT and it is better and been around longer than any of the others There are far less braindead imbeciles and trolls on VT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 31 minutes ago, bickster said: There are far less braindead imbeciles and trolls on VT I agree, but my God they really gave it a good go in the Steve Bruce thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 How would you find out, I've had my Twitter account for almost 11 years and I'll be buggered if I can remember. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wazzap24 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Just now, The_Rev said: How would you find out, I've had my Twitter account for almost 11 years and I'll be buggered if I can remember. Scroll down your following list. They are listed in order of when you started following. Mine were: LCD Soundsystem Kanye West AVFC Lebron James Zlatan I'm pretty sure I followed Rate Real Amatuers 1st, but I think Twitter took that account down Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Rev Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 That's presuming you didn't unfollow anybody ever, right? As it stands: Aston Villa, and a load of old videogame journalists who you've almost certainly never heard of, most of which have moved onto different careers. I guess I need to have another purge. @ShawnElliott is still totally worth following though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 10 hours ago, maqroll said: What it says on the tin Who are yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Country music singers. Thats what I use it for on the whole. As time has gone on I follow a lot of mouthy females that make me laugh. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted October 6, 2018 Author Share Posted October 6, 2018 (edited) 4 hours ago, HanoiVillan said: Who are yours? Friend Friend's old band Heart of the Holte Liliana Segura Matt Taibbi History Pics Edward Snowden Jeremy Scahill Glenn Greenwald Ian Taylor Edited October 6, 2018 by maqroll 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dAVe80 Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 Memory is hazy, so the first 10 might be a struggle, but I do recall following: Aston Villa Official Matt Kendrick Birmingham Mail Villa News England Cricket Board Warwickshire CCC Ian Taylor Few mates too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PieFacE Posted October 6, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 6, 2018 12 hours ago, mjmooney said: Don't follow anybody. I have a Twitter account, but I never use it. I genuinely don't see the point of it. Facebook does everything Twitter does, and more. Complete opposite. Use Twitter all day. Deleted Facebook. Twitter is better for getting instant news without all the social bullishit reading stuff you don't care about. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted October 7, 2018 VT Supporter Share Posted October 7, 2018 11 hours ago, PieFacE said: Complete opposite. Use Twitter all day. Deleted Facebook. Twitter is better for getting instant news without all the social bullishit reading stuff you don't care about. I don't want instant news. I check the BBC news app first thing in the morning, and watch the 6.00 pm TV bulletin. Everything else is covered by VillaTalk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted October 7, 2018 Share Posted October 7, 2018 I don't do Twitter but the wife does, so I got her to follow Lindsey Buckingham. He still owes us a concert for cancelling at Symphony Hall in 2012. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrDuck Posted October 8, 2018 Share Posted October 8, 2018 Logging into Facebook these days has the same feel as going into Blockbuster Video just before they all closed down. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowychap Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 On 06/10/2018 at 08:10, choffer said: Ben Folds As in Ben Folds Five? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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