I discovered how cool Twitter can be if you use the #hash tags to search for a
product, company, religious movement, cause, etc., you are interested in.

One thing that I find incredibly annoying is retweets.  You'll see some fairly
important item from one original source, then it repeated about 5 to 20 times
verbatim.  The thing that is bad is that the retweets contain the hash tag also,
so you'll see it 15 times!  The people who do this are just polluting the
stream.  I guess I get extra annoyed when I see the overly smug or joyous
pictures of the people doing this.  Are they that clueless, or are they
impressing a league of grandmothers who are only subscribing to them and two
other people.

In this way, it's not like a "Digg" or a "Like" on Facebook, in that those two
items don't harm anyone.

Re-tweeting might be a fairly cool tactic if somehow the hash tags were taken
out, so that only YOUR subscribers would see it.  Or, if there were only some
way to Block a person, that could save the annoyance.  You could leave that
person be, just ignore the less clueful re-tweeters to themselves. But I've seen
that Blocks don't prevent people from showing up in your #hash searches.

Have I missed something here?

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gregjohn wrote:
> Have I missed something here?

You missed that this has been going on in every advertising-driven medium 
since before the internet?  Content is a cost.  Viewers are a product.

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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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"gregjohn" <pte### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message 
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>
> Have I missed something here?

Most people have nothing to say, and few if any opinions of their own. This 
is one of a small number of human behaviors that I don't understand. I think 
that people hear or read something, feel some sort of emotional impact from 
it, and begin to sound off with the same phrase, like parrots in a forest. 
Copy & paste has, perhaps, made this phenomenon worse; at least, it seems 
more noticeable.

I use Facebook, and hate it; however, it's one of the few methods that I can 
use (and that they will use) to regularly communicate with my grown 
children. The other day, for fun, I posted a status update that said, "If no 
one could post a quote from a book, song lyric, or a copy of someone else's 
status, would Facebook collapse into a void?" The only responses I got were 
from one acquaintance who observed that I was "wierd", and another who said 
she was going to quote me in her status. I think that last one might even 
count as irony.

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Jack

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Captain Jack wrote:
> I think that last one might even count as irony.

Or subtle humor.


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Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Captain Jack wrote:
>> I think that last one might even count as irony.
>
> Or subtle humor.

Hope springs eternal... perhaps I'm growing cyncal.

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Jack

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Captain Jack <Cap### [at] comcastnet> wrote:
> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
> news:4b7da047$1@news.povray.org...
> > Captain Jack wrote:
> >> I think that last one might even count as irony.
> >
> > Or subtle humor.

> Hope springs eternal... perhaps I'm growing cyncal.

  "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."

    - David T. Wolf

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:55:25 -0500, Captain Jack wrote:

> "Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message
> news:4b7da047$1@news.povray.org...
>> Captain Jack wrote:
>>> I think that last one might even count as irony.
>>
>> Or subtle humor.
> 
> Hope springs eternal... perhaps I'm growing cyncal.

Water it and it'll flower.  :)

Jim

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"Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message 
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> Water it and it'll flower.  :)

Which will aggravate my hay fever, then...

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Jack

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On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 17:06:40 -0500, Captain Jack wrote:

> "Jim Henderson" <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote in message
> news:4b7db8f1$1@news.povray.org...
>>
>> Water it and it'll flower.  :)
> 
> Which will aggravate my hay fever, then...

Heh, you and me alike. ;-)

Jim

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Warp wrote:
>   "Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows."
>     - David T. Wolf

I'll have to remember that one. :-)


-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   The question in today's corporate environment is not
   so much "what color is your parachute?" as it is
   "what color is your nose?"

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