Tweets???

suej

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Just noticed this on the side of the page... what's it all about then? I don't know anythin about twitter..does that make me a twit??!! Please would somebody explain.
Thanks Sue
 
tweets is a twitter plugin.

you can tweet (post a comment) on to wildcamping.co.uk's twitter page if you have a twitter account.

Twitter is a big thing, I heard that more people read Stephen Fry's tweets than read every Uk newspaper sold combined!
 
just goes to show there are alot of twits out there. buying a newspaper is bad enough. cheers alan.
 
this is just feature of the new software, I will most likely disable it at some point if no one uses it.
 
Phil said:
tweets is a twitter plugin.

you can tweet (post a comment) on to wildcamping.co.uk's twitter page if you have a twitter account.

Twitter is a big thing, I heard that more people read Stephen Fry's tweets than read every Uk newspaper sold combined!
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We have a twitter page??? And is it just me who thinks that the fascination with what television personalities had for breakfast marks the end of civilisation?
 
tweeting or twitering is getting me mad :mad1: as we have a rather noisy black bird sits in the tree next to the bedroom window and that starts tweeting at 3 in the morning
 
I use twitter a lot; I get regular updates on the latest technology from Engadget, updates from the F1 pitlane from Sarah Holt BBC (amongst others) and its interesting to watch the trending tweets when something major happens.

Its not for everyone but then again 10 years ago people were saying the same about the internet.
 
Sorry, I disagree.

There is no such thing as a 'language standard', language by its very nature is transient. For example the word 'gay' meant something very different in the 50s to its current usage.

I admit the speed of change today is phenomenal but its not all bad. Twitter limit's is 140 characters which means you only have to put up with a small amount of poor grammar ;) and people always get straight to the point.
 
Perhaps it's the traditionalists who are lazy in failing to learn and adapt to the new medium? Just a thought. One thing is for certain, it's hard work to respond to this on an iPhone so I can see why Twitter exists. Spk l8r, cya. ;)
 
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Morse code is not a language, its a code for translating letters into sounds. You can use it to transmit txt spk as long as the person on the other end can understand it.

Computer languages are used to help us communicate with computers as we find it quite difficult to write in machine code directly. The panecea of computing was whilst I was studying computing a machine that understands English directly, we are getting nearer but we are still not there yet. However, computer languages are not true language but rather another code.

As for merit in inaccuracy, how about the Jaberwocky or other Lewis Carroll works, Rabbie Burns and surrealist painting? Fortunately, engineers don't control the artworld otherwise this would be a very dull place.

Your GPO films, they must have all been shot in the home counties then. I can tell you ordinary people have never used proper English in Central London, Liverpool, Birmingham, Newcastle, Sunderland, Aberdeen, Cardiff, Leeds .... Etc.

My view is that people now spend more time communicating than ever before and as a result are less hung up on the odd mistake. Personally, I value the message and I want to hear what people have to say ahead of their grammatical abilities.

If these off topic posts are going to be a problem could a friendly moderator move these posts into a thread on their own? Thanks.
 
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