I still haven't figured out what the hell twitter really is??? Signed up for it about a year ago and haven't gone back. So I can't answer your question???????

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I think it's idiotic.  Unfortunately it doesn't surprise me.  I think TER's advertising on radio is idiotic as well.  

The ultimate down fall of Craig's List as a tool for hobbying was greed, stupidity and publicity.  It may not happen tomorrow, next week or next month but the more of a high profile TER decides to exhibit the bigger the danger is of it winding up the same way that CL did.

Opinion is running about 50/50.

Bad Idea.......

Another nay.  I don't see an upside.  I do know that individual providers offer that, too, and I have the same view of that.

Twitter ... OMG! What's next!! Newspapers!!!!

I honestly don't see it as such a big deal.

I mean it's not like [kids, LE, your spouse] can't find the same info on this site in public forums ... or on a provider's website ... or in the newspaper for god's sake!!

OK, I do see a few yahoos "following" a provider using their real name or personal account.  But that's just pure stupidity and Darwin should take care of them shortly.  

Twitter is just a new media option. Think of it as TER 2.0. I'm sure there was a similar hue and cry from our predecessors in this lovely hobby when boards like this first showed up on the Internet. Yet TER 1.0 is now a source of valuable information for hobbyists and a great advertising tool for providers and few of us think twice about posting here (under an appropriately concealing alias of course

Now whether or not TER has anything relevant to add to the twitterverse really remains to be seen ...