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		<title>By: HackTorz</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-919995</link>
		<dc:creator>HackTorz</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>twitter is not for geeks, that is an insult to a geek like myself. Twitter is for PC lamahs, those with I.Q.&#039;s under 60 and individuals who confused about their sexuality..</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>twitter is not for geeks, that is an insult to a geek like myself. Twitter is for PC lamahs, those with I.Q.&#8217;s under 60 and individuals who confused about their sexuality..</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Movershaker</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-918370</link>
		<dc:creator>Movershaker</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:31:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Twitter is for twats who like their ego&#039;s massaged</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter is for twats who like their ego&#8217;s massaged</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Rodrigo</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-915787</link>
		<dc:creator>Rodrigo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:22:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Twitter is useless, just for stupid geeks or teenagers with nothing else better to do.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Twitter is useless, just for stupid geeks or teenagers with nothing else better to do.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: hamerdaemmarkl</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-912214</link>
		<dc:creator>hamerdaemmarkl</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 17:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Is Twitter based in China?

I must conclude it is after what I’ve been through.

I got my account suspended. Why you ask? Because I criticized another user, because I had an opinion. What ensued was this person I criticized asking his thousands of followers to accuse my account of spam (falsely accuse). “Just send a message @spam with the name of his account” he told his followers, he added “If you do this for me, I’ll add you to my user following”. So far it’s clear I was dealing with a psycho but that’s ok, he’s free to be one. What mattered to me was getting Twitter to realize it did a mistake, the accusations were false and this was just a way to shut me up, a sort of bullying.
By then I was already quite disappointed with the fact that Twitter suspends accounts automatically. I don’t know what the exact number is but if they receive a certain amount of complaints about an account, they automatically suspend it and only later check if they did the right thing.
The Twitter sentence came: “In this case &quot;impersonation&quot; is the issue. Impersonation is against our terms of service unless it&#039;s parody. The standard for defining parody is, &quot;Would a reasonable person be aware that it&#039;s a joke.&quot;”
Yes a reasonable person would, there’s hundreds or thousands of “parody” accounts, people get it, they’re reasonable but I guess Twitter considers their users dumb.

The only thing I could do in this situation was to create another account. Take in count every rule and it’s subjectivity so they couldn’t accuse me of anything. I did, but I continued sharing my opinions so the psycho (havidaemmarkl) repeated is scheme and guess what, a few hours later my account had been suspended. I couldn’t wait to hear what Twitter had to say. They deleted my first two requests for an explanation, what rule did I brake was my insisting question. Finally they replied:
“You created an account. It violated our terms of service. It was suspended. You created another account. It, too, violated our terms of service; it also violated our terms of service by being created. 
You will not be reinstated on any account; if you create additional accounts, those will also be suspended.”
Wow! Did they just say that? I had to read it a couple of times to make sure. Democracy out of the window and that’s that. If you can turn your followers against someone with fewer followers, they go straight out of the window like it happened to me, no questions asked.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Is Twitter based in China?</p>
<p>I must conclude it is after what I’ve been through.</p>
<p>I got my account suspended. Why you ask? Because I criticized another user, because I had an opinion. What ensued was this person I criticized asking his thousands of followers to accuse my account of spam (falsely accuse). “Just send a message @spam with the name of his account” he told his followers, he added “If you do this for me, I’ll add you to my user following”. So far it’s clear I was dealing with a psycho but that’s ok, he’s free to be one. What mattered to me was getting Twitter to realize it did a mistake, the accusations were false and this was just a way to shut me up, a sort of bullying.<br />
By then I was already quite disappointed with the fact that Twitter suspends accounts automatically. I don’t know what the exact number is but if they receive a certain amount of complaints about an account, they automatically suspend it and only later check if they did the right thing.<br />
The Twitter sentence came: “In this case &#8220;impersonation&#8221; is the issue. Impersonation is against our terms of service unless it&#8217;s parody. The standard for defining parody is, &#8220;Would a reasonable person be aware that it&#8217;s a joke.&#8221;”<br />
Yes a reasonable person would, there’s hundreds or thousands of “parody” accounts, people get it, they’re reasonable but I guess Twitter considers their users dumb.</p>
<p>The only thing I could do in this situation was to create another account. Take in count every rule and it’s subjectivity so they couldn’t accuse me of anything. I did, but I continued sharing my opinions so the psycho (havidaemmarkl) repeated is scheme and guess what, a few hours later my account had been suspended. I couldn’t wait to hear what Twitter had to say. They deleted my first two requests for an explanation, what rule did I brake was my insisting question. Finally they replied:<br />
“You created an account. It violated our terms of service. It was suspended. You created another account. It, too, violated our terms of service; it also violated our terms of service by being created.<br />
You will not be reinstated on any account; if you create additional accounts, those will also be suspended.”<br />
Wow! Did they just say that? I had to read it a couple of times to make sure. Democracy out of the window and that’s that. If you can turn your followers against someone with fewer followers, they go straight out of the window like it happened to me, no questions asked.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Opp</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-908075</link>
		<dc:creator>Opp</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 22:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I don&#039;t have a facebook/myspace/twitter account but I have been on all 3 of them. Twitter by FAR is the worst. Myspace allows you to browse/search people easily. The option is right there and very easy to find, PLUS you don&#039;t even need to sign in to do this. Twitter was HORRIBLE with this. You have to make an account to even get on the damn site, then you can&#039;t even browse people. When you have facebook/myspace...there is ZERO need for twitter. 

My final take: Myspace is the easiest/best overall. You can browse your zipcode/school....or search people&#039;s names and you&#039;ll find them instantly. No need to even sign up, you can even browse people by age/race/realtionship status/body type. It is a simple site that allows you to decorate your page with themes, music and pictures however you want to.

 Facebook has a lot of flaws. You can&#039;t even see anyone until you&#039;re signed up to their freaking network. And even THEN that person might be on private. You cannot change your network more than once in 60 DAYS! You cannot join several network locations if you&#039;re someone who travels/moved as a kid. Searching people takes forever if you already signed up to say, los angelos network...and you&#039;re looking for someone in new york. Search goes in order to networks closest to the one you have. Facebook needs to STOP this network bullcrap right away. Do what myspace does...have a profile, put it on private or don&#039;t put it on private. How SIMPLE is that? They also have a horrible picture setting. There are like 1000 different ways to look at peoples photos, and each section divides them up. It took me weeks to even realize my friend had more photos available because they were scattered in 100 different sections. There are only TWO things facebook has over myspace. One is, you don&#039;t have to hear everyone&#039;s obnoxious music playing every single time you click on their page like you do on myspace....and you have less random friend requests. Thats IT. 

Twitter has zero positives, and nobody is even on that damn site.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I don&#8217;t have a facebook/myspace/twitter account but I have been on all 3 of them. Twitter by FAR is the worst. Myspace allows you to browse/search people easily. The option is right there and very easy to find, PLUS you don&#8217;t even need to sign in to do this. Twitter was HORRIBLE with this. You have to make an account to even get on the damn site, then you can&#8217;t even browse people. When you have facebook/myspace&#8230;there is ZERO need for twitter. </p>
<p>My final take: Myspace is the easiest/best overall. You can browse your zipcode/school&#8230;.or search people&#8217;s names and you&#8217;ll find them instantly. No need to even sign up, you can even browse people by age/race/realtionship status/body type. It is a simple site that allows you to decorate your page with themes, music and pictures however you want to.</p>
<p> Facebook has a lot of flaws. You can&#8217;t even see anyone until you&#8217;re signed up to their freaking network. And even THEN that person might be on private. You cannot change your network more than once in 60 DAYS! You cannot join several network locations if you&#8217;re someone who travels/moved as a kid. Searching people takes forever if you already signed up to say, los angelos network&#8230;and you&#8217;re looking for someone in new york. Search goes in order to networks closest to the one you have. Facebook needs to STOP this network bullcrap right away. Do what myspace does&#8230;have a profile, put it on private or don&#8217;t put it on private. How SIMPLE is that? They also have a horrible picture setting. There are like 1000 different ways to look at peoples photos, and each section divides them up. It took me weeks to even realize my friend had more photos available because they were scattered in 100 different sections. There are only TWO things facebook has over myspace. One is, you don&#8217;t have to hear everyone&#8217;s obnoxious music playing every single time you click on their page like you do on myspace&#8230;.and you have less random friend requests. Thats IT. </p>
<p>Twitter has zero positives, and nobody is even on that damn site.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: mikehaydon</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-904500</link>
		<dc:creator>mikehaydon</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Mar 2009 03:26:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sounds like you&#039;ve had a bad experience with Twitter. Maybe you should check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalities/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalities/&lt;/a&gt; (not related to me at all - just find it useful) and you&#039;ll see that not everyone on Twitter is egotistical, insecure or both. That just happens to be a couple of the types of people that post to Twitter.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sounds like you&#8217;ve had a bad experience with Twitter. Maybe you should check out <a href="http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalities/" rel="nofollow">http://mediacaffeine.com/network/the-14-types-of-twitter-personalities/</a> (not related to me at all &#8211; just find it useful) and you&#8217;ll see that not everyone on Twitter is egotistical, insecure or both. That just happens to be a couple of the types of people that post to Twitter.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: The Todd</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-899207</link>
		<dc:creator>The Todd</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2009 06:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Be honest with yourselves twitterati, twitter serves no more purpose than letting ego-centric douchebags let you know when they crap. They may be geeks and tools, but they are still very ego-centric geeks and tools. Personally, I find people who think their crap is interesting, un-endingly boring.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Be honest with yourselves twitterati, twitter serves no more purpose than letting ego-centric douchebags let you know when they crap. They may be geeks and tools, but they are still very ego-centric geeks and tools. Personally, I find people who think their crap is interesting, un-endingly boring.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Gxhzjndf</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-891725</link>
		<dc:creator>Gxhzjndf</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Myspace and facebook sucks because they too are also fads too too too too.....
Let&#039;s burn every highschool mediocres yes yes rap sucks</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Myspace and facebook sucks because they too are also fads too too too too&#8230;..<br />
Let&#8217;s burn every highschool mediocres yes yes rap sucks</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Kevin</title>
		<link>http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2008/05/29/15-million-reasons-why-twitter-sucks%e2%80%a6/comment-page-1/#comment-887606</link>
		<dc:creator>Kevin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 07:38:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I also agree, twitter is for wussies that need social bandaging.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I also agree, twitter is for wussies that need social bandaging.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>By: Geeee</title>
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		<dc:creator>Geeee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I disagree with you ;D twitter never been garbage .. begin of the story :P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I disagree with you ;D twitter never been garbage .. begin of the story :P</p>]]></content:encoded>
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