Random thought,How many of us use Twitter?

"Ike" (untitledcarshow) 11/21/2015 at 10:49 • Filed to: None

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I feel like Oppo is a pretty Internet savvy group, do we Twitter or is there another app/social media thing I should be on?

Btw on Twitter I’m

@untitledcarshow

If you somehow don't know that

MM54 > Ike 11/21/2015 at 10:53

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I avoid it like the plague

Ike > MM54 11/21/2015 at 10:55

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I’m curious as to why, I haven't had any really bad experience with it: I know the trolls are out there but I think you can advoid them on Twitter if your careful

jariten1781 > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:02

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I have a twitter because the local police tweets out whatever their weekly targeted enforcement is and my phone tells me (seatbelts, speeding, redlights, dui checkpoints, tint etc). Good for situational awareness. I haven’t actually used it for anything else in more than 3 years.

SteveLehto > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:02

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Twitter is a necessity if you 1) want to participate in Jalopnik or 2) have something you are promoting like books or a podcast.

@stevelehto

MM54 > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:03

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The whole concept/mentality of “Blurb 140 characters or less to everyone who can listen” just strikes me as what’s wrong, socially, with most people these days - the only exception is that it makes sense if you’re a business or celebrity doing PR (in either case).

In short, I don’t care what everyone I know is doing at every waking moment, and I know that nobody [should] care what I’m doing every waking moment of every day, always.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:05

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I have an account but rarely look at it. I think I signed up just to get some freebies. I don’t anyone following me because they’re just going to get spam. 140 characters or not, I really don’t have that much wisdom to share with the world. I am following a few people but rarely look at what they have to say except in the email summaries that Twitter sends out.

A good portion of my family only seems to communicate via Facebook and so I have an account. Not that I use it on any regular basis. FB just strikes me as incredibly creepy, gathering bits of information for who knows what purposes. At this point I’d say I probably trust comgress more than I trust Facebook.

Justin Hughes > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:11

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I avoided Twitter like the plague for a long time. I didn’t need yet another social networking distraction in my life. I got an account, linked it to the motorcycle road tripping blog I’ve had for years, and used it mainly to tweet links to my posts and nothing more.

When I started writing car stuff, I rejiggered my Twitter account and started using it to publicize my work. Many of my pieces that have been reposted to the FP or official sub-blogs happened because I tweeted the links to the right people. When I joined the Right Foot Down crew, Josh and Will encouraged me to include a link to my Twitter in each of my articles and to continue using it as a tool like I had been.

Today, I find Twitter more useful for literal social networking than Facebook or other platforms. I’ve connected with people who helped me get more published. I’ve become friends with random followers who just chatted me up. I’ve even been contacted with a sweet press opportunity or two by Twitter, since that’s the easiest way for the public to contact me. Email is so 20th century, it seems.

@justinhughes54 if anyone cares. (I ran car #54 in autocross for many years.)

Justin Hughes > SteveLehto 11/21/2015 at 11:13

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Yes. This.

Opposite Locksmith > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:19

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They call me off the grid Niko. Kinja is my social media

CAR_IS_MI > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:19

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I’ve had twitter since it came out. I still cant figure that shit out. I use IG, it’s simpler for me to just show you than it is to math my words into some short version of what I want to say

JQJ213- Now With An Extra Cylinder! > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:38

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I used to use it all the time. I just sort of stopped because I got the same news off my Facebook feed.

Still have the account just haven’t used it in months

Ike > MM54 11/21/2015 at 11:40

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Hmm I get this, I guess what curious about is this, if you’ll indulge me ( not trying to convince you to use Twitter I completely understand).

As the current “social media” I hate that phrase, it should be called something else I like the updated from people, and businesses and groups I follow, I do dislike the small character limit, but it does force them/yourself to write more inventively, so I kinda like that I guess.

I started using it cause the OG topgear Crew drove with in 5 miles of where I was living at the time (Capitol Race way, where they attempted to drag race the 458 vs the Amg SLS) and if I would have had Twitter I could have gone and maybe seen them. So I got on once I learned it’s kind of a way to know of cool things happening.

and as Steve pointed out below, it is kinda necessary evil in today’s world of promoting your goods, so have to promote the podcast some way besides Oppo lol

Ike > SteveLehto 11/21/2015 at 11:42

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Is it hard as a lawyer to get it all in with only 140 characters? I mean I’ve known some lawyers and they all write like pages and pages of stuff, I mean some of the stuff they send to each other, it’s like phone books! It’s crazy!

(Bad joke attempt)

Ike > CAR_IS_MI 11/21/2015 at 11:45

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I'm so curious/confused by IG, I think I should probably be on it. But im scared

Phyrxes once again has a wagon! > Ike 11/21/2015 at 11:47

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I use twitter mostly to lurk and keep up with news by following journalists, race teams, and other people that interest me.

Ike > jariten1781 11/21/2015 at 11:50

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This is kinda what I like about Twitter, is you can kinda groom it to use it in the way that works best for you

Matthew Keyser > Ike 11/21/2015 at 12:15

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I’m pretty much always on Twitter, but being a teenager I tweet a bunch of school-specific crap because it’s a conveneant way to talk to my peers. You can feel free to follow but I won’t blame you for unfollowing/muting for the lack of info pertaining to cars.

Instagram is where I am more selective about the things I post and a majority of these things are car/guitar related. If I were a car enthusiast from Montana, I wouldn’t follow myself on Twitter, but I’d consider following myself on Instagram.

Either way,

Twitter: keyserguitar

IG: KeyserGuitars

jvirgs drives a Subaru > Ike 11/21/2015 at 12:26

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I use twitter. Its main purpose is to follow NASCAR and some other forms of motorsports. I follow mostly drivers, teams and media personalities. I do have a few friends I follow and vice versa and we mostly tweet about football and stuff.

and 100 more > Ike 11/21/2015 at 13:06

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I have an on-again/off-again relationship with Twitter. I find it difficult to curate good content, when I do I fall behind anyway because it’s just a fire hose. Plus, I’ll find some folks who are funny, follow them, but they all they do is retweet people who THEY think are funny,but I usually don’t.

CAR_IS_MI > Ike 11/21/2015 at 13:07

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It’s less scary than twitter, plus, you can share to twitter...

Jack Does Cars > Ike 11/21/2015 at 14:13

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I’ll follow you.

NJAnon > Ike 11/21/2015 at 15:10

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I don’t use it. I mean I already have Skype, Facebook (the new myspace), hotmail, vine, excite, etc. I mean just pick one because I’d be tired of chasing posts down on twitter. (I can’t even imagine)

davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com > SteveLehto 11/21/2015 at 15:53

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What do you mean by “participate in Jalopnik”? As an author?

SteveLehto > davesaddiction @ opposite-lock.com 11/21/2015 at 16:15

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Yes.

SteveLehto > Ike 11/21/2015 at 16:43

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I worked as a top 40 DJ. I am good at condensing my thoughts.

Ike > SteveLehto 11/21/2015 at 16:56

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One day I will find a recording of this and it will be awesome

SteveLehto > Ike 11/21/2015 at 17:03

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I’ve posted a clip. Here: http://oppositelock.kinja.com/that-dj-who-su…

Ike > SteveLehto 11/21/2015 at 17:11

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How did I miss this?

Amazing, simply amazing

SteveLehto > Ike 11/21/2015 at 17:17

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I post so much - it’s easy to miss stuff. What can I say?

Dusty Ventures > Ike 11/21/2015 at 21:07

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I have twitter. It’s a fantastic resource for knowing what’s going on and how you’re doing when at a rally (or when you’re stuck at home but want to follow a rally)

pip bip - choose Corrour > Ike 11/22/2015 at 03:24

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not on it , don’t intend to either.

not interested in it tbh.