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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 03:50 PM
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Do you know anyone interesting enough to follow on Twitter?
I don't. I am a fan of various different musicians, actors etc. But I can't find anyone interesting that I want to know what they are doing every min of the day.

What else is Twitter good for?
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:03 PM
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1. Do you mean personally, or do you mean people who are bound to tweet something worth reading?
If the latter, here's some of my favorites:

@ebertchicago (Roger Ebert - very prolific tweeter)
@warrenellis (Warren Ellis- acerbic English graphic novel writer)
@TheOnion (The Onion)
@rudepundit (The Rude Pundit)
@JhonenV (Jhonen Vasquez)
@cobracommander (Cobra Commander)
@shitmydadsays (Some dude tweeting shit his dad says - really funny stuff)

you can follow me at @semillama but I'm really not that interesting.
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:16 PM
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2. And Me!
http://twitter.com/Mr_Scorpio
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grasswire Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:35 PM
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3. Keith Olbermann (n/t)
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Forkboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:47 PM
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4. Nope.
For the most part, when it comes to musicians or actors, I couldn't care less about anything but their product.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 04:49 PM
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5. I'd follow twitter if I needed more tweets and twits in my life
but I think I'm pretty well set in that department already
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MorningGlow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-10-10 05:37 PM
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6. Nope, not even me
I'm boring as shit--when I remember to tweet, that is. The emperor has no clothes, and Twitter is the biggest waste of time to come along in years.

Wait--unless you follow trainwrecks like Gary Busey, Courtney Love, and Lindsay Lohan. They might be good for a few laughs, I guess.
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semillama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:44 PM
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7. Gary Busey is awesome
Well worth following for the laugh.

Boing Boing is good, too.

I just started following Leonard Nimoy - just got a good quote from Shakespeare's Henry V.
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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:44 PM
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8. Your mama . n/t
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UndertheOcean Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:44 PM
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9. sorry , manic phase as you can tell. n/t
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dawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:47 PM
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10. Well, I have a twitter account.
I have zero followers. I don't follow anyone either. And I posted one tweet about how crappy a day I was having the day I setup the account. Very few of the people I actually know IRL have a twitter account. And as for those that do, their experience seems to be much the same as mine.
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lukasahero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 02:54 PM
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11. If you think Twitter is about what someone's doing every min of day
you're following the wrong people.

I have set up my acct into lists of dif people I follow: news & politics; science & tech; advocacy & activism; etc.

From a participation standpoint, I use Twitter for animal rescue and most of my tweets reflect that. But mostly I just read (and get educated).
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bikebloke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-11-10 03:12 PM
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12. Here are a few.
@stephenfry
@simonpegg
@nickjfrost
@NathanFillion
@NASA_Astronauts
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Z_I_Peevey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-12-10 06:50 AM
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13. Another
@nerdist
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