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Programmers does not have time for twiting or chatting, Actually are more busy coding than socialising on the net. I come to DZone to read about technical software development articles but that's all.

It's funny to see that as a blog post - not enough space in Twitter?

Hm... But maybe I should really consider Twitter after all.... It would be interesting to compare my "drank a coffee" stats to others and... well... maybe I can brand myself by that according to "a programmer is a device to convert coffee to code". :P

No thanks - blogs are useful, Twitter is just meta notification (and I already have that by RSS, blog readers, Facebook and - of course - DZone :) ).

Obvious rationale, but still not compelling

All of you guys obviously fail to see that collaboration gives way to new ideas which gives way to better technologies.

Google knows this. Why do you think they have free lunch? It's not just because it's a nice perk. It makes business sense to have people who normally would never meet each other run into each other over great food!

Bottom line: more collaboration = better world.

Some of us just prefer to collaborate more than 140 characters at a time on a vanity site which only exists because some people have a desperate need for attention.

If that's your medium of choice that's fine you are welcome to enjoy it, but please don't imply everyone else is clueless because they don't drink the same kool-aid you do.

As an avid Twitter user (@tlberglund), I'm often surprised how much communicating can be done in 140 characters. Certainly all of life can't be lived that way (hence Eric blogs, probably talks to coworkers, pays his taxes, is married, etc.), but it doesn't follow that none of it can. And perhaps Twitter is just a vanity site that caters to my desperate need for attention, but for my part, I've found that I've been able to develop real and professionally fruitful relationships with other developers using this medium. It may actually be useful apart from my character flaws.

None of which suggests you're compelled to use it, of course. But in skillful hands, it might not be the foolishness you imply it is.

I think programmers should develop instead twitter.

There's other ways to colaborate in programmers world. Code project is one of them.

You're right that there are other ways to collaborate. Why not do both, though? It does a programmer's mind some good to take a break from the code once in awhile.

Well, take a break sometimes is really a good thing.

But when I do breaks I use it to drink some cofee, stretch the legs and arms, not to twitter.

i think programmers should hav a girl friend

Some people just don't get it and that's fine. I follow a lot of programmers and even DZone on Twitter and have learned a great deal. Maybe it's a generational thing and old people just don't get it lol.

I doubt it's generational since I must be from about the second youngest generation that could post valuable content to Twitter. Instead, people using Twitter must never have used RSS fully. What Twitter revolves around are basically two things:

1. short messages (in a felt 99% of all cases lacking content)
2. posting links to external content (notifications)

Case 2 is already fully covered by RSS and directories/social bookmark services like DZone. Messages posted to Twitter that don't link to external content - thus following case 1 - are usually unimportant and contain only smalltalk or status updates. I myself don't get what's so great about subscribing to smalltalk channels that sometimes do what my RSS reader does. If I see a website with interesting content that links to Twitter, every now and then I cannot resist to check if that's one of those authors you Twitter-likers try to tell me post interesting content to Twitter. Every time I check their Twitter page I only see the same smalltalk posts and links to their blogs or other websites. It just looks more and more like random noise if you scroll down so I disappointedly (once again) close the tab and try to forget about it.

I find twitter useful, but I'm gonna start voting down all these annoying "self-help" articles on DZone. Post some real code people !