This seems largely superfluous, I don't really see the point.

It does seem to contradict the mobile nature of Twitter.

While I think most of us here won't use it, I can see casual people using it. Those who already use Twitter could just use Twitter via the Internet Channel. They also say it could be extended to the DSi Browser, making it mobile too.

um. i don't see the point, why not just use twitter?

"Rapid Blogging," huh?  Maybe with a USB keyboard.  I wouldn't exactly call using the Wii Remote pointer and an on-screen keyboard "rapid."  Not to mention the startup time for the Wii versus a phone or computer that's probably already on.  This project definitely seems more like "can we do it" than "should we do it."  ...but what the hell, I'm gonna register anyway.

Exactly, people use the Internet Channel for the same reason. I think parents might also like it because they can let their kids use a Twitter like service without hogging the computer. I will probably register even though I doubt I will use it (I don't use Twitter either).

I think this clip pretty much sums up my thoughts on this news: http://current.com/items/89891774/supernews_twouble_with_twitters.htm

Only even more pointless since it's based on a home console.

I concur

To be perfectly honest I don't like Twitter. To be, its just another way to cut human communication short.

One example of this is a friend of mine who used to run this very detailed, very well designed, thoughtful and insightful blog with a lot of interesting topics.

But now that he is too busy to post something all he does is use Twitter updates, and he writes idiotic stuff like "Its sexy party times" and such. Ugh.

I am sure people have found wonderful uses for it and won't condemn them for using it. But to me , Twitter is just making communication short and meaningless. "I am too busy, in too much of a hurry, too cool to have an interesting conversation so here's one or two lines explaining what I am doing. Enjoy".

Think I'll pass. As far as I can tell the best way to communicate while on the Wii is still to sit near your pc with your instant messenger(s) running.

now there is some potential for a system that auto tweets your status

"playing world at war"
"reading the news"
"dancing to Disney tunes" (oop! err, i mean Shootin ZOMBIES, yeah that's it)

the xbox has something like that already. i suppose if we had acheivements it would make more sense. but if we had achievements I think i'd be doing something else.

I said that about the entirety of Twitter.

See that I'd like. If I turned on my Wii & got a notice that a friend was playing a wifi game I'd play said game & see if we could meet up.

I've never even heard of Twitter prior to this announcement. The Internet has reached a new low, which is really saying something.

Twitter doesn't make sense until you get an iPhone.  Then, everything changes.  The ability to set up what is effectively an RSS feed of your thoughts is pretty damn fun, and can also be incredibly useful...and addictive.

It definitely depends on how it is used. I've seen some pretty damn idiotic uses for Twitter, while some news sites have used it to its potential.

I still stand, however, by the fact that this doesn't replace actual conversation.

I concur with everything in this post, I basically ignored Twitter until I saw apps for it on the iPhone App Store and now I'm slowly getting more and more into it.

And you tell me Trackmania can't be big because you've never heard of it?

Still sounds like the only use it has is to act as steganography for remote detonation codes for terrorist attacks...

It makes stalking people so easy that it loses it's charm. Seriously Lindy, 10 tweets in one night whining about how crappy the Sharks are?

I've never even heard of Twitter prior to this announcement. The Internet has reached a new low, which is really saying something.

I envy you. I've had to watch this stupid "war" between Ashton Kutcher and CNN over who can get to 1 million followers first on Twitter.

Neither does email, sending a written letter, sending a text message, or posting on a Facebook wall.  But none of these things have ever professed to replace actual conversation to begin with.  Twitter is no different...it's just another means of electronic communication.

Its greatest asset to me is being able to hear people's random thoughts.  I follow DrewMG from these forums and he says some hilarous random stuff.

You should follow me, it's kinda weird to do this when the only one following me is some random person I've never met who started following me immediately when I joined.

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."  Does that make it oxymoronic that I'm my only follower and I check for my updates constantly?
~7 minutes ago from TwitterHouse

Hmmmm... thats wierd. This isn't the twitter thread. Could've sworn this was the TwitterHouse thread in the fun house.
~10 minutes ago from TwitterHouse

Oh I see what you did there.
~2 minutes ago from STFU

Then how does a Wii version make sense? It seems to spit in the face of the convenient aspect of it.

I don't follow Internet fads either, and I highly doubt this is as big as FaceBook or MySpace and I can only hope it doesn't get there...

A Wii version doesn't make sense and I'll never use it.  But people were bagging on Twitter as an overall concept and I was like, "Wait a minute...if you haven't used it on a cell phone you've never really seen its full potential."

Twitter is the stupidest thing i've seen in a long time. The whole concept is worthless. Why should I give a damn what you are doing right now? I'm just hoping it's a fad and goes away.

Anyways Lindy, do you see yourself using the possible DS version?

It's not necessarily about what you're doing, it's more about what you're thinking. It's a blog with a 140 character limit per post.

The only real use I could see of Twitter is for stuff like GDC speeches where you would like to quickly post what is happening there. The majority of Twitter stuff is worthless from what I have seen. I guess my only real problem is the people who act like it's a major thing that everyone should be doing and that's in the next big thing.

Someone built a device that will automatically post on Twitter when you fart. I think that says it all.

Well if you're going to write something off because you can do something really stupid with it you shouldn't be using the internet at all because there are some incredibly stupid things on there.

Yeah, like Twitter :P

A DS version makes a little more sense, though is still redundant considering how everyone who isn't me has a cellular phone.

I wouldn't use a DS version either, because I don't have my DS with me all the time like I do my iPhone.  Part of the beauty of Twitter is its immediacy.

Twitter  is hardly ever used, well as soon as on everyone  else.  Twitter  is a free Wii-centric bloglet website,  based on the popular  Twitter.