Am I the only one who's not really into reading "twitter feeds" here?

[Beaverhausen]

I'm not yet on twitter and all the hashtags and @joeblow@jillbrown makes it confusing.

I wish those posting would just post the relevant info.

[TlalocW]

1. My response

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Beaverhausen: Yes. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/yolo?src=hash">#yolo</a></p>— James Wiske (@TlalocW) <a href="

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">February 6, 2017</a></blockquote>
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[yuiyoshida]

17. Retweeted you

XD now please follow me, @yuiyoshida1987

[bathroommonkey76]

22. You rarely talk on the Twitter machine.

I've been following u for a couple of years now. haha

[yuiyoshida]

23. of course I am there... maybe you are following the wrong

Yoshida Yui...

[yuiyoshida]

26. were covered...

and yeah i am on there most every day!

[msongs]

2. posts should have a twitter warning in the title. and content in the body. won't happen tho nt

[IamFortunesFool]

3. I agree

I hate having to navigate away from a given thread to pursue said thread.

[yardwork]

4. I love the twitter feeds here!

It's a window into real time conversations, reactions, and laughing.

[Big Blue Marble]

5. Love them!

It is whee it is happening in the immediate! When you really want to know
what a whole lot of smart people are thinking, follow them on Twitter.

Just jump int; the water's fine.

[femmocrat]

6. I started to read Twitter when DU was hacked.

I don't understand all the hashtags, etc. either, but I do enjoy how brilliant some of those tweeters are.

[eShirl]

20. hashtag has a similar function as a keyword in blogs

enter the hashtag, such as #mepolitics, into twitter's 'search'

[femmocrat]

28. Thanks!

[chillfactor]

7. I only read any twitter feeds posted here

a person could spend hours reading twitter messages...I have better things to do with my time.

[sarcasmo]

8. Love my phonebook

[WillowTree]

9. No. I have an account, but it's never interested me really & I'm too busy with life.

[matt819]

10. I thought it was only me (nt)

[Glamrock]

11. Nope

You are not alone. RESIST!

[leftstreet]

12. I was indifferent before Trump's fireside tweets !!

Now I really appreciate members posting his tweets - and the tweets about his tweets

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. I've seen mostly single tweets posted here, not feeds. I like them.

When they're good, anyway. Like any sources for posts here, some are better than others.

But, if we're sharing pet peeves, I'd like to see fewer OPs, accomplished by cutting down on ones repeating the topics of currently posted OPs and ones that would make senses as a replies to OPs or other replies, resulting in more discussion and community between DUers.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. #youdamnkids #getoffmylawn

DU skews pretty old, demographically.

We can fight it or embrace it, but the future comes either way.

[Maru Kitteh]

27. This. n/t

[Leghorn21]

15. Hey, Beaverhausen! I hear ya! Now, here is my story!:

I don't tweet, but learned to check feeds during this miserable last year - some days, I just would not make it without the laughs they can bring!!!

I go here, it's one of the sites listing top ten trends:

https://trends24.in/united-states/

Then, if I have ANY clue what the topic is, I might click and get a tad of info...all those hastags and blah blah, I have no idea who is talking to whom most of the time!! - but there are MANY times when I'm laughing my butt off - what a clever, funny people we are!!! Frederick Douglass, Bowling Green Massacre - omg! - - - DON'T FORGET to hit the "refresh" icon on the upper right of page when applicable!

In addition to checking those latest trends, I have this tiny library I have bookmarked and check regularly:

I go here for updates on Standing Rock:

https://mobile.twitter.com/search?q=%23NODAPL&prev_cursor=TWEET-805349416324435968-805472221846261762-BD1UO2FFu9QAAAAAAAAETAAAAAcAAAASAAAQAAAAAAAAIAAAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAAgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAEAAAAIAAAAAAAEAAAAAIQAAAAhSAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACAAAQAAgAAAAAgAAAAABAAAAAAAAAAAAg

And also here - Ruth Hopkins, Indian Country Today writer:

https://mobile.twitter.com/RuthHHopkins?p=s

----- Masha Gessen, brilliant Russian writer who knows from agonizing personal experience exactly what we're going through these days - she links her (very timely) articles; just click them and read if you so desire:

https://mobile.twitter.com/mashagessen?lang=en

----- Malcolm Nance, Intel guy - does commentary on msnbc a lot:

https://mobile.twitter.com/MalcolmNance

-----And for fun, the "Paul Ryan Gosling" account!! - all his tweets start with "Hey, girl", a la Gosling characters:

https://mobile.twitter.com/PaulRyanGosling?p=s

Enjoy or not, as you see fit, m'dear!

[Iggo]

16. If it's in the body of the post, I'll read it. I ain't clickin' on Link To Tweet. (n/t)

[eppur_se_muova]

18. You are not. Multiple twitter posts + even slightly slow connection -- text jumping all around

If I open a post and see a bunch of twitter links, I just close it before any can load. Not missing much.

[Cha]

19. I love them.. it took a bit when I first started.. now I'm an ol pro @

reading them.. so Informative in real time. I'm going to get an account one of these days.

Meanwhile..

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[bathroommonkey76]

21. Time for a couple of throwback tweets from me...

Boy, I miss the GOP primaries.

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[AgadorSparticus]

25. I like the tweets. I get such a kick out of the brilliant tweets about any given situation

They Crack me up!