| Your sarcastic summary is pretty inaccurate. It's up to the readers to determine if Gabriel's examples actually demonstrate usefulness, but it doesn't help that you mischaracterize his examples. Here are some corrections: 1. Your summary doesn't even really make sense as a coherent thought. The author actually says that he showed up 8 hours early for a meetup and a friend told him of his mistake. IMO not wasting a lot of time wondering where everyone is is useful. 2. Gabriel never says anything about not being able to remember what he's doing, and your implication that he's a moron is pretty ridiculous. Incidentally, a lot of people use twitter this way. 3. In the article itself he mentions that someone gave a bug report over twitter. Again, this is another common practice. Even if the author hasn't yet found any useful tweets (he has), he undoubtedly will in the future. 4. Your comment is ambiguous. Gabriel mentions that twitter is another tool for communicating with customers. Believe it or not, when people are interested in a product or service they like to get updates about it. 5. Gabriel doesn't use Twitter itself as an ice-breaker, but others' tweets. "Hey, nice to meet you. Yeah I started following you because of what you wrote about ninja turtles. I like ninja turtles too!" 6. ... 7. Completely inaccurate. Author wrote, "I don't really have that many, but with the amount I do have it is enough to get benefit when spreading news and links about my company or otherwise." |
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