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Well done, thanks!

 

I would also like to disable it, or even be able to shrink it.

One day I will see what is the big fuss about Twitter. 

I find facebook the same, I see its value for some people and it has got me back in contact with some old friends. But my 'wall' thingy just seems to full of 'I took the kids to school, nothing happened, now I'm back" - wow thanks for that.

Sites like Dreamstime actually put useful info in there, such as changing of upload limits, problems with the site, big news changes.. things that are handy to know.

Yes, but random things like the below, which I see from them, is just static in my feed:
"Stock fact: Eifel tower at night, with the light arrangement on, is copyright and can only be uploaded as editorial."

http://www.twitpocalypse.com/ 

Ok, I opened an account there.  What's next?

I still don't understand what this is for. 

We are this >< close to ceasing Twitter usage. Not for anything with the aspects of how the service works, but for the recent terrible sysadmin examples:

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/16/twitters-internal-strategy-laid-bare-to-be-the-pulse-of-the-planet/
and
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/07/15/another-security-tip-for-twitter-dont-use-password-as-your-password/

Plus it's a little creepy that their internal corporate communications seem to be all done in 'tweet' style, like they are from another planet where sentences don't exist lol. ** edit, you can communicate in 1's and 0's for all I care, just make sure you're not leaving your system exposed!

We will hold on for now because I don't want to have squandered the time of people that have spent a few moments to follow our own account, and it is a -free- service after all.  Hopefully we see some proactive action from the Twitter-admins that they take security a little more seriously than using 'password' as a password etc.

It really is mostly useless.  Things that will get you removed from my follow list.  Incessently retweeting other people's input.  Constantly posting polls.  Carrying on conversations back and forth with others in the stream with unending doting for whatever their last comment was (that's what email is for).  Stupid shortened words like #togs and #tweeple.  Posting "follow fridays" lists to your same buddies over and over.

Well my gheek side was pleasantly surprised a few moments ago on FB when I wanted to share the latest stupid internet video of Darth Vader and the stormtroopers doing the MC Hammer "Can't touch this" dance - the second you plunk in the http URL into the message, it throws up the video preview and description. Now that's service.

If the front-end's can continue to advance like that, without having these noob security problems, more power to them. 

Well you can bet if capitalism can spotted from space via satellite ala N.Korea that thing's must be coming together. India will be the biggest English-speaking country by 2010, the new rules are that there are no rules. For the FB and Twitter, you get what you pay for - if a business really expects to recreate a generations-old model of trust with some kind of hot-air me-me-me medium, I can predict those businesses would not go far based on that.

I for one am happy with a carefully manicured twiiter-verse of like-minded people. Don't like their tweets, just drop them. I am somewhat concerned about the one-way aspect of the medium, just like the Twitter corporate idea leaks, it seems to be more questions or declarations than answers or dialogue.