Who from here is on Twitter then?

[Pauro 76]

@padrageous for all your cr@p punning needs.

[NeverFeltBetter]

@NFBblog I tweet about a wide range of stuff apart from football, so forewarned.

[SkStu]

@CunningStu for an account that is never used!

[tetsujin1979]

@tetsujin1979 for my person account, usually whatever I'm thinking at the time
@irish_abroad for all goals, yellow and red cards for Irish players as they happen

[nigel-harps1954]

@teddyballetband is all I use it for, and it's not really very often. Tis a handy aul yoke for promoting gigs and such though.

[theworm2345]

If you're here promoting a business/public use account thats one thing, but if you're here promoting your personal account...have you no shame?

[BonnieShels]

@CunningStu for an account that is never used!

It's remarkable to see how rarely I use it.

Up until I started reviewing comedy gigs in Sept this year the last tweet was about Borussia Dortmund in the CL 2011-2012

It's @jmslevin should ye ever be bored enough to watch paint dry.

[dahamsta]

All 3 of my Twitter accounts are fully automated, from my blog or indeed from here. I accept that I need them for promotional/marketing purposes, but I think the entire premise of Twitter is utterly retarded. Same goes for Facebook, with the added annoyance that the owner is the biggest douche on the planet.

[Wolfie]

I'm on there @OlanDevine.

That's not a typo. First name is Olan. A Cork name apparently.

Feel free to follow. I tend to tweet a lot besides football, so up to yourself etc.

[Sean South]

All 3 of my Twitter accounts are fully automated, from my blog or indeed from here. I accept that I need them for promotional/marketing purposes, but I think the entire premise of Twitter is utterly retarded. Same goes for Facebook, with the added annoyance that the owner is the biggest douche on the planet.

More or less the same with forums or blogs.

I'd say twitter is one of the reasons this forum is dead these days.

[dahamsta]

I see "this forum is dead" a lot, usually from trolls and haters. Every now and then I check. It's never, ever been right.

To be fair, there hasn't been any growth this year, but there hasn't been any fall-off either. About the same as last year, on average.

Either way, twitter sucks the sweat off a dead man's balls.

[Mr A]

I never saw the point of twitter until I did, and now I think it's rather good. If you put a bit of work in and follow people likely to say and link to stuff you're interested in then it's pretty cool.

[dahamsta]

That's fine until they start wittering on about completely uninteresting stuff, which always happens. And my attention span hasn't reduced quite as far as 140 chars yet. I guess I'm just old and cranky.

[SkStu]

I see "this forum is dead" a lot, usually from trolls and haters. Every now and then I check. It's never, ever been right.

To be fair, there hasn't been any growth this year, but there hasn't been any fall-off either. About the same as last year, on average.

Im honestly surprised by that, and i say that as neither a troll nor a hater. Do you look at visitors? New/Dormant accounts? Do you have the ability to compare # of posts this year vs previous years? I think that is where i notice the difference the most.

[Sean South]

Im honestly surprised by that, and i say that as neither a troll nor a hater. Do you look at visitors? New/Dormant accounts? Do you have the ability to compare # of posts this year vs previous years? I think that is where i notice the difference the most.

Haters? Ok Snoop Dogg maybe dying would be a better way to describe this place compared to three or four years ago. Badly needs new users I find alot (not them all of course) of the regular users would suck the sweat off a dead man's balls.

[Dodge]

I never saw the point of twitter until I did, and now I think it's rather good. If you put a bit of work in and follow people likely to say and link to stuff you're interested in then it's pretty cool.

Twitter is definitely what you make of it. Some use it as a replacement RSS feed and get news and info that way. Some use it to chat with their mates. Some use it for stuff like needs immediacy like live score or traffic reports. Some as a way of sharing their ideas, opinions etc. And the best use a combination of all four.

The advantage over the likes of here is that you don't have to wade through pages and pages of bull to find the 1/2 posters you think know what they're talking about. I follow fans of most LOI clubs, and find twitter a far better way of keeping up to date with the league.

[Wolfie]

Twitter is definitely what you make of it. Some use it as a replacement RSS feed and get news and info that way. Some use it to chat with their mates. Some use it for stuff like needs immediacy like live score or traffic reports. Some as a way of sharing their ideas, opinions etc. And the best use a combination of all four.

Good points above. I find Twitter a great "one stop shop" for all of the 4 strands of activity mentioned above.

If you're discerning in who you're following its quite a useful medium for topics of your interest.

[Neish]

@Neish80 but don't use it that often may check it once a week. Not a fan of the way your homepage is full of crap every time some uses the @ or # tagging someone or something you're following (say for instance Barcelona FC) Very hard to sort the useful information for the cr*p, or is there a way to filter this?

[Dodge]

@Neish80 but don't use it that often may check it once a week. Not a fan of the way your homepage is full of crap every time some uses the @ or # tagging someone or something you're following (say for instance Barcelona FC) Very hard to sort the useful information for the cr*p, or is there a way to filter this?

Not really sure what you mean. If someone tweets @something you'll only see it if you follow both that person and the @something person. The #hashtag things are usually tacked on to the end of something but again, if you're just chekcing your timeline you'll only see updates from people you follow

[dahamsta]

Im honestly surprised by that, and i say that as neither a troll nor a hater. Do you look at visitors? New/Dormant accounts? Do you have the ability to compare # of posts this year vs previous years? I think that is where i notice the difference the most.

Was going by posts on this occasion, it's a better stat because of the aforementioned dormant accounts. However our dormant accounts number is much more accurate than most sites, because I purge 0-post >30 day users around once a month. In my experience, these account for at least a quarter of user numbers on other sites.

No, I don't know why anyone would sign up to a website, never post, and then never come back.