I've met quite a few people through it. It's a lot more fun than I initially thought it would be! The majority of people I know use it off and on.

I personally refuse to use Twitter. I prefer Tumblr. I know a lot of furries use both, though.

I follow one fur on twitter and he never posts anything.

I personally use twitter a lot.

Use it before it goes bankrupt lol.

I use twitter to share stuff, and to show of the drawings I did at Pacific Anthropomorphics Weekend while I was at the convention. Good way to announce stuff on an impulse or show off something you did or someplace you went.

I ddooooooo =3

I follow over a 1000 people on it, of which most of them are furs. Its possibly the best way I have of talking with others and getting to know lots of my friends better!

i have gotten one recently, but still have to find how to use it properly haha!

I use it fairly often, but it all depends on how much use you think you'd get out of it. I found it a great way to meet people.

Twitter is hit or miss. I like it overall, though.

I use mine quite a lot. Twitter has been my best overall social network experience, at least for furries. A lot of artists use it as well, and there's quite a lot of conversation going on. Met quite a few good friends through it, too.

What about tumblr? Can you post words on tumblr?

Yeah, you can. A lot of people do text posts fairly often, although getting in contact with other tumblr users is slightly more inconvenient since there isn't really a dedicated note/private message system other than the "ask" section of a blog.

I tried it once, forgot about it for so long that I closed my account, and then just recently started up again. The entire reason why I even bothered this time is because of how many furs use it. So far, it's been fun enough, and I can customize what gets sent to my cell phone so it doesn't explode with alerts. ^_^

The only furs I've seen use twitter are douchy self-proclaimed 'popufurs.'

While I scoffed at the 140 character limit thing, I found it has helped be more concise with my thoughts over time.

I use it all the time :3 I actually sometimes offer art and things on there before I mention it here on FA because communication on there seems to be quicker at times. If you happen to join, here's me https://twitter.com/Remy__Wolf ^w^

How is it against tumblr?

I don't even use Tumblr much tbh x3 Except to browse images/gifs on occasion. Seems to be complicated to talk to one another

lol Rogue Carrot.. FOXES ARE ORANGE THO

There are TONS of furs on twitter. I know a lot of people who use both tumblr and twitter, but usually because when they post pics on tumblr it creates a tweet on their linked twitter account. But most of them use twitter for conversation or to promote art and stuff. Seems like conversation is a lot easier there :o

A great amount. That is when I noticed I had a use for it about two years after signing up. Also good for cons.

You would probably appreciate Tumblr vastly more than Twitter. Especially considering most of your journals contain words that are half the length of a Twitter post. ;)

People use Twitter as a dumping ground for anything they feel enough motivation to copy-paste or vent about on their phone without having to appropriately think (since you're only allowed 140 characters per post), while Tumblr can at least be used by disciplined individuals to stay on-topic and provide insight or simply only post art or enjoyable material. I only watch around 20 people on Twitter and I almost never see anything constructive come from it. Most of it is things that I wonder the reason I'm reading at all and I remember it's just in case they announce streams or image links. Four out of five times those links aren't art, though.

I use Twitter for 99% one reason: Inform people that I'm streaming. It's autonomous so I don't have to do anything else. That other 1% was to communicate with a couple of people at a local convention so we could find each other, but the only reason I used Twitter, obviously, was because I had no other way to talk to them. No one that I know of uses Twitter exclusively. It's just a window into their 140-character thought process.

I also don't think you can scroll through an hour of Twitter posts without seeing something drama-related. And it can be anything from a news article to them talking about some stupid driver that nearly hit them.

In the end, I would say Twitter is hardly necessary, ultimately probably more destructive than constructive given its design model, and not really enjoyable.

Tumblr allows for longer posts, by far. Sometimes people abuse that privilege. But at least there's no hard-limit on the content of a post. Tumblr also has a reputation for 'social justice warriors', most specifically aimed toward racism, police brutality, and objectification of women and sexism in *everything*. Often thee posts aren't based on reality but just information taken out of context. I'm reasonably sure the only reason Tumblr has this reputation is because of the lack of hard-limit on characters. People who make fun of things type 5 words. People who have strong opinions type 5,000. So the Wall-o-text gives it the obnoxious presence, and it eventually becomes a spectacle. And there's a belief that if it gets a 'signal boost' on Tumblr it will change the world (ProTip: It never changes anything).

Tumblr's other caveats would probably include the following:

You can't filter by tags by default. You can blacklist, but the site chooses to ban any post with that word, not just the tag.

Reblogging is painfully simple, so people reblog off-topic or ridiculous things. Even though a month prior they might've said they'll never do that.

Vine and Videos. This makes my eyes roll. Tumblr recently made it so videos can be set to auto-play the moment they're on your screen. Mobile users suffer greatly if they have data caps on their service plan. And I've never seen a relevant video that I wanted to see. Vine is a site where you can post seven-second videos of anything. So a lot of people use it for a blip of attention, usually when they think they're funny.

'Social Justice Crap' is anything that someone reblogs because it's a lengthy, popular post about something social justice related. And nearly everyone has that one thing they agree with that they feel is important enough. And it's almost never true for all of their followers so it can have the potential to tick them off.

Tumblr's Pros would probably include these:

There's a tool you can use to make Tumblr more useful than it is. Tumblr Savior I think it's called. It allows you to filter posts by tags and other things. I haven't actually used it.

The site uses hotkeys to scroll or do things, so it's pretty useful when you know them. J goes to the next post down, K goes up, . takes you to the most recent post (the top). Shift + R reblogs whatever post you're currently looking at without asking you for input on it, stuff like that.

You can find Tumblrs that are nothing but good vibes and useful information. I follow one called Science is Beauty, where they find amazing things in current science and share them with you. The owner is a professor at a college where it's their job to keep up with that stuff, so a lot of it is really neat.

You can post more than just text or links. This is clear enough. Videos, pictures get embedded directly, conversations, you can ask questions and have people respond, etc.

There are probably others but I'm forgetting them right now.

In the end, I *think* you would like Tumblr vastly more than Twitter, but that's entirely based on what I know about you.

be careful.

http://tilt-longtail.livejournal.com/504335.html

Also, lots of celebrities and video makers are on twitter to so you can get updates on what they're doing. When I first joined twitter, I went on a binge following as many That Guy With The Glasses people as I could. I loved it when Berkeley Brethead (creator of Opus the penguin) did a live Q and A on Twitter and he answered a few of my questions. Just stay away from things like #gamergate. That just leads into a black hole of endless stupidity.

I love Twitter myself :3 I recommend joining! Lots of toony antics happen on there!

Twitter = conversations and random thoughts (and bad, bad obsessive addiction)

If you have time to waste and like to expose your thoughts, then yes.

I use Twitter as a place to share thoughts and announcements. A lot of times people just use it to chat, which spams your timeline, instead of using direct messages. I always look at a site's TOS concerning usage rights before joining.


An excerpt from Tumblr's TOS:

"... you grant Tumblr a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, transferable right and license to use, host, store, cache, reproduce, publish, display (publicly or otherwise), perform (publicly or otherwise), distribute, transmit, modify, adapt (including, without limitation, in order to conform it to the requirements of any networks, devices, services, or media through which the Services are available), and create derivative works of, such Subscriber Content...
You also agree that this license includes the right for Tumblr to make all publicly-posted Content available to third parties selected by Tumblr, so that those third parties can syndicate and/or analyze such Content on other media and services...
Note also that this license to your Subscriber Content continues even if you stop using the Services, primarily because of the social nature of Content shared through Tumblr’s Services - when you post something publicly, others may choose to comment on it, making your Content part of a social conversation that can’t later be erased without retroactively censoring the speech of others."

It's not as bad as Facebook's or DeviantArt's where I will never ever post anything. Basically, whatever you submit you give them free permission to copy, alter, and redistribute. Mainly for just how the site is used. It also lets third parties collect information on you based on what you do. Lastly, it implies that if you've deleted your account, things you've posted will remain.

If this is all okay with you, then go ahead and use it. Personally, I'd go ahead and make an account and comment and lurk, but never post anything important.


Twitter has a similar TOS:

"You retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. By submitting, posting or displaying Content on or through the Services, you grant us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license (with the right to sublicense) to use, copy, reproduce, process, adapt, modify, publish, transmit, display and distribute such Content in any and all media or distribution methods (now known or later developed).

You agree that this license includes the right for Twitter to provide, promote, and improve the Services and to make Content submitted to or through the Services available to other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter for the syndication, broadcast, distribution or publication of such Content on other media and services, subject to our terms and conditions for such Content use.

Such additional uses by Twitter, or other companies, organizations or individuals who partner with Twitter, may be made with no compensation paid to you with respect to the Content that you submit, post, transmit or otherwise make available through the Services...

You are responsible for your use of the Services, for any Content you provide, and for any consequences thereof, including the use of your Content by other users and our third party partners. You understand that your Content may be syndicated, broadcast, distributed, or published by our partners and if you do not have the right to submit Content for such use, it may subject you to liability. Twitter will not be responsible or liable for any use of your Content by Twitter in accordance with these Terms. You represent and warrant that you have all the rights, power and authority necessary to grant the rights granted herein to any Content that you submit."

The first part gives Twitter free permission to copy, alter, and redistribute whatever you post, likely to make it compatible for different devices and stuff. The second part says they can use what you do to "improve" their Services, and they can give your stuff to other companies they choose. The third part says that they're never going to pay you. The last part says that if something you post gets you in trouble, you're SOL.

If you're cool with these terms, then go ahead and use it. I use Twitter, and I never post any multimedia. Only links.

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In my experience: Tumblr is great for posting an art or article and if it catches interest, gets spread around a lot. Definitely good for long-form text or batches of multiple image files.

Twitter is great for announcements or off-the-cuff comments, and as you build up followers, getting instant feedback or comments on something. You CAN also post images to it, and they can be retweeted and passed around as well.

So far I've found that most Tumblr interaction is simply "liking" or reblogging a post, very rarely commenting on it. Twitter seems to stimulate more replies and conversations.

Also: It's pretty easy to have both ... You can set up your Tumblr to automatically cross-tweet your posts there as an abbreviated text + link to Twitter at the same time, so both your Tumblr and Twitter followers get a notification.

WTFcooner (personal) and coonerArt (art and con announcements) are my Twitter accounts, WTFcooner is my Tumblr account, if you want to see how I have them set up right now.

I don't use it. everything twitter is good for Facebook is better at. a lot of times I have more to say than whatever the word limit on twitter is. I find it restrictive and pointless.

I use Twitter as a main means to communicate while I am mobile. Be selective with what information you share though. That way people from work can't look you up based on your phone number or email address. Other than that, I have met some of my best friends through Twitter. I will always have it and I will always use it.

Yup, you can set it up and have it be only searchable by twitter name which should stop most issues.

As for twitter in general i find it quite good, it's a nice quick way to stay in contact with people and post up silly things.

Oh and watch out for Doc Fox, he's a weird on on there always talking about paws and his stripy jumper XP

I've met some awesome folks through Twitter but at the same time it can be a bit to much to keep up with.

I gotta be honest - I pretty much DROPPED Fur Affinity (social-wise) once I started getting more into Twitter. I find people are a lot more open and conversation gets going a lot better than Twitter. It's a great place to connect and make new friends ^^

Twitter is like an internet wide conversation. Obviously there are jerks on the net. But i love being part of the conversation. To me its the best way to meet and get to know furs online. It creates a casual conversation. Not just posting and replying but an actual sense of conversing

Geez. It seems like the opinions vary widely. I used twitter a couple of years ago and followed about 100 people, but there was almost nothing written about besides petty personal grievances. I really don't think it's a useful medium for conversation (and tumblr is really just a one-way conversation).

There are a lot of furries on twitter, yeah.

I personally really like twitter because I come up with random whacky thoughts all the time and it's a spectacular platform to share those thoughts.

ALso, yeah, a lot of interesting conversations, you get to know people better on there I think. You can also lock your account if you want to be personal or frisky

Yes, they do besides me. I've been using mines for years, I'm tweeting about PC games and furry porn. X3

I've been on Twitter for years.