How many Polycounters use Twitter?
I have been thinking lately, I wouldn't have made any of the game development connections that I have without the use of twitter. I find it as a great, quick means of communication to network with people of interest. With it I have been able to make many friendships with people and gain considerable knowledge from them.
Any of you brilliant polycounters use twitter?
@Klumpmeister
Any of you brilliant polycounters use twitter?
@Klumpmeister
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Obviously that means looking on my behalf.
Not a huge fan of tweeting as I can't really imagine people are interested in what I do all day... personally I find it a bit tedious listening to everyone's updates
Just don't really see a point of it... Yeah I'm away from home, and sometimes it makes you feel like you never left, with the constant updating and all... but a nice letter or email just does the job. If not, there's always IM programs.
They're called attention whores - and the constant Twitter or FB updates are a very good tool to find out that they are useless, and that it's time to wipe them out of one's contact list
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Oh, and mine @BotchedBeetroot It sucks. Hasn't been a lot of dragon slaying lately.
@pixelante
@FacepalmCharity
I don't tweet that often.
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and also, the immediate glorification of ones self is one of the things that the internet is totally guilty of...and so many people are jumping on the train. it's kinda of what pior said "attention whores". it's disgusting. who cares if you are going out to get fuckin ice cream or if you are "blue" today.
i don't know......i guess it's just like anything really. once something is born, there are those that will flock to abuse. guess it's no different than anything else.
***hey, i got some half acre gossamer's and some pizza and a movie. anybody game?
But seriously, facebook is nice sometimes, for getting back in touch with old friends or for keeping contact with friends/family who don't use IM services when you're out and about.
Twitter seems like it's only useful for people that really need to get messages out to a lot of people quickly, without getting all the extra hassle of facebook.
Facebook can be good if you can control the information flood. I can easily get in touch with really old friends without any bigger problem. I think it's a great addition to the social networking and I don't have to keep tracks of people's e-mail address', phone numbers etc. There is a contact list and I can easily just contact them.
Edit: @skamberin: Didn't see your post before posting this.
I rarely ever actually tweet from my account, it pretty much only reblogs from my sketch blog. But maybe I should use it for smaller, more pointless updates. @fearian
@dadakostudios
@facemakr
etc
I just use it to follow game developers and fellow artists.
anyway, I only ever use facebook to share links with friends, as most people i'm acquainted with check it much more frequently than their email. never even thought about getting a twitter or the like. i get sick enough of hearing about everyone's day from facebook. pretty god damn fun seeing a million ambiguous status updates just begging for you to ask what's wrong. if I wanted to talk feelings, i'd do it in person.
also It blew my fcking mind that they made a movie about that chump mark zuckerberg. Aren't there thousands of more interesting things to make movies out of? Christ.
Just use it to get news updates because i find it more convenient than RSS feeds for me
I'm @bgoodsell
and as far as tracking interests i think a blog is a better formate i rather read a well thought out blog post than a bunch of small post threw-out the week that all have severe word caps on them.
twitter seems to be about quantity over quality to me.
edit: and who has the time to pick anything worth while out from the crap when i used facebook i had to weekly trim my friends list down and still the news feed was ticking by so fast it was useless.
http://twitter.com/#!/gavku
some people post interesting things, so follow them
Also, my twitter: www.twitter.com/eldrone
Twitter is better used as a kind of news service and link aggregator. It is not really for "social networking" as far as I'm concerned, although it depends on how you use it.
@AubreySerr
This is me on twitter:
@Jeremy_WGA
I use Twitter to follow game devs that I look up to or respect, but don't know personally yet.
A lot of game designers will tweet their thoughts while working on designs or playing games, it's a great tool for picking up random bits of info (some more useful then others)
It's not necessary, but it's still pretty cool if you're into that kind of thing.
edit: I forgot to put this: https://twitter.com/#!/davidtschultz
dont post too often, but put nuggets up here & there. I'm definitely not a "im taking a shit," twitter user
http://twitter.com/#!/chrisradsby
but I usually don't tweet that I'm in the bathroom =P , I usually tweet quick thoughts about video-games or game development etc, sometimes stuff about photography. Sharing links of inspirational videos, great portfolios and artwork.
My Twitter is: http://twitter.com/#!/in_prog
I rarely post stuff on Twitter, but I check it almost daily since GDC.
Like other game artist and tshirt artist and etc,
http://twitter.com/chrismaddox3d
I just added a number of you guys, thanks for putting up your info!
@Rurouni_Strife
If you're interested
John Carmack http://twitter.com/id_aa_carmack
RAGE http://twitter.com/ragegame
id http://twitter.com/idsoftware
hmm, no bias here
Most things I see posted arnt that interesting or if anything is interesting its generally posted on other websites I read already or friends just send links directly.
Dont really see the whole appeal of "exposure" either because if your trying to get into the industry chances are all the "right" people wont be following you. And if you do have the career/job you already want, who cares about exposure then?
I love me some facebook but I use facebook to stay in contact mostly with friends. I dont use it to try and push my work out there. The mundane things of peoples lives dont intrest me unless there my friends, and if they are, I generally have most on facebook where everyone dose that kinda silly stuff
I guess Polycount is the twitter I follow
Well different services work for different people; I think that reading longer format writing, like blog posts, rather than the short and fast twitter, could possibly improve your spelling and grammar...
I get news through twitter, reminders through twitter, cool links through twitter and friends' updates through twitter. I get to communicate directly with bands, eCelebs, companies and interesting people.
I get to actually network through twitter, discovering things I'm interested by seeing who people I follow are following or by seeing retweets and links by the people I follow.
I get to talk to an audience that I don't have to give full access of all my personal details to. The direct communication is awesome. I can look up anybody on twitter and send them a message without having to be friends with them. You can also shield yourself from that too.
Mostly it's just awesome in its simplicity. I can do all of the social networking I want without having to create a whole facebook page about myself and have it locked off to only people I know.
I honestly don't use Facebook often. The people I know aren't very interesting and I don't care to share stuff about myself to most of my facebook "friends".
If you aren't using twitter I would say to try it out. It's all about who you follow. You don't want to be the guy who was hating on facebook a couple of years ago and got left behind.
http://twitter.com/KyleParsons
I just use twitter to stalk people in sc2 and my fav artists
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