The Twitterbot: Nuisance or Useful Tool?

Fuck Twitterbot! Most of it's posts are in scrambled secretary short hand. BARF!

Hmm, ~30 posts describing twitterbot as *at best* "meh" and the only real 'yay twitterbot ftw' coming from a member of the Current team seems to speak volumes.

While the theory seems *potentially* useful and interesting, the implementation is obviously lacking. There may be benefit in linking different media and commentary capital in this way [as seen, for example, with the Google segments on Current] but the twitterbot doesn't seem to be it.

I really fucking hate twitter in general. Twitterbot is dumbing down Current, and I really don't care if in the future it is meant for bigger uses, it shouldn't exist. I say please just disentangle Current from Twitter altogether so that this stupid phenomenon can just die a quicker death.

Is Twitterbot a browser?

So, if I'm understanding this correctly, the twitterbot searches Twitter for "potentially interesting commentary" -- which, unlikely -- related to stories that are on current and then posts links in the current thread to other websites related to the stories it finds.

It seems more annoying to people than useful and besides that I generally read and post to current on a phone, so why does Twitter need to post to current when you can post current items directly to current on a phone the same way you'd post Twitter items? It seems unnecessarily redundant.

Put it to a vote on current.com

I was a Twitter user for about a month until I realized that useful thoughts are most always more than 140 characters and I didn't really need to know when Ryan Seacrest downed a lettuce wrap.

hate it!..wait, hate is a pretty strong word and my mother always told me not to use it, so I don't care for it to the 10th power.

The twitterbot just regurgitates the headlines but in a slightly reworded fashion making its redundancy apparent in every post.

I know Current is using Twitter as a form of meta-material, but we don't really need it. The mesmerism of Twitter will dissipate and you will all* wake up out of a haze to discover your bodies attached to life support devices as you are suspended in warm amniotic liquid within a cryotube. Please break free!

* Denotes Twitter: users, enthusiasts, proponents, affiliates, subsidiaries, corporations, franchises, partners, intellectual marketers, dopplegangers, clones, bots, really good impersonators of, followers, and pushers.

really dreadfully awful. makes this place feel like an aol chatroom.

Worst idea ever, and I thought it couldn't get much worse. Why have a bot repeat tweets when Current is a place for user comments, that is the reason I still come here, the original responses, debates and exchanges of opinions.

I have to agree. I'm not "twitterpated" by it at all.

I have yet to find any use in twitterbot. I've looked at the links it produces and they have been universally useless. I'm not a twitterer though so I may not be using it right.

It's irritating. It doesn't seem to have any purpose apart from being some kind of ubiquitous marketing tool. I say we democratize Current and vote on its continued presence.

GET RID OF IT!

Hell, I can't even tell what Twitterbot is trying to say on anything I've posted!!!

I hate twitterbot. Every time I see it, it makes me want to do violent things to it.

Twitter has it's uses, but the Twitterbot has not proved itself useful in anyway. It's just stupid repeats of story titles, or petty comments about the article. It has never provided any kind of useful insight or added to any discussion. Kill the Twitterbot!!!

awww...poor little twitterbot.

but yeah...it rubs me the wrong way

i hate it as well... should just kill the stupid thing, and for that matter kill twitter it is another lame "junk food" culture distraction

haha, i laughed at the post. yea, it's annoying but not THAT annoying. why hasn't the bot twittered on this post i wonder?

I like it!

Twitter is useless on it's own.

Twitterbot posts the redundant and inane comments in all of current.com.

Half the time its the Brooke Sheilds characticure of Southpark and the rest of the time it's the "I like turtles boy" from that episode of the Bill O'reily show.

My vote is with you all, no Twitterbot.

I get enough on my cell phone.

Don't you "twitterstand"? Yeah, I hate twitterbot also...

I hate Twitter for one thing. I don't really get the purpose of the Twitterbot.

There are many times I have been in first place and the twitter bot thing shows up on some article and then all of a sudden, with only 15 views....it is somehow in first place....not quite sure how that is "leaving it to the people" to decide. It's all about control and power just like everything else in this world

#gayest thing ever# #Repeat Title# #What the Heck?!#

I hate Twitterbot too. It sucks. It's supposedly just a temporary thing for some other plans Current has...regardless of it's function I despise it.