Are there any out there? I'd just like to have a few general reactions in my twitter feed when news and such get posted. I've tried searching for some people from X-Wing podcasts but never really found anyone.

For Magic the Gathering, I follow a few people plus the official feed and enjoy seeing people geeking out about new cards and what they can do, and I'd love to have the same for X-Wing. Suggestions?

I don't use twitter, but there's a few google+ and facebook x-wing groups I'm in. You might want to try looking into those.

Thanks. Yeah, I'm in the X-Wing Michigan group and am a fan of that for sure.

If i want to be social i go talk to people in person, face book is an abomination!

Twitter sucks... you have to pay to promote your tweets... so nobody sees them.

If i want to be social i go talk to people in person, face book is an abomination!

If i want to be social i go talk to people in person, face book is an abomination!

Which is nice if you have people available who share this particular interest. If not, online communities are a godsend.

Of course, it does beg the question why you are here then. .

Besides, Twitter to me is more of a newsfeed than a channel where I interact with people.

Mikehulsebus, look at the official FFG accounts on Twitter, for starters.

Twitter sucks... you have to pay to promote your tweets... so nobody sees them.

Nah, you have to find an audience and provide interesting content to engage them.

My last tweet was apparently seen by 15K people because it got a retweet by someone famous. .

Twitter sucks... you have to pay to promote your tweets... so nobody sees them.

Nah, you have to find an audience and provide interesting content to engage them.

My last tweet was apparently seen by 15K people because it got a retweet by someone famous. .

I have noticed that even the FFG and Team Cov accounts get low interest unless there is a BIG news item published.

Twitt is for ADD Zoom Zoomies.

Or a place to love/hate on know peoples.

I have noticed that even the FFG and Team Cov accounts get low interest unless there is a BIG news item published.

Twitt is for ADD Zoom Zoomies.

Or a place to love/hate on know peoples.

No, no, no, Twitter is the place to get the latest news, both from the newssites and from the journalists themselves. It's where you get links to concert streams by your favourite bands and updates on their tour schedule. Where you talk with writers not only about their books, but shared interests as well. As long as the one tweeting isn't a dull corporate entity or a PR staffer it is great.

Follow people like Neil Gaiman and Guy Gavriel Kay for news out of bookland. Follow people like Tom Holland (the historian/writer) for historical news. I follow a bunch of historians and archaeologists, riveting stuff what they tweet. Follow Brett Easton Ellis for off grid movie suggestions. William Gibson for social and technological developments. Etc. Etc.

Who to follow about X-Wing though, I wouldn't know. .

I have noticed that even the FFG and Team Cov accounts get low interest unless there is a BIG news item published.

Twitt is for ADD Zoom Zoomies.

Or a place to love/hate on know peoples.

No, no, no, Twitter is the place to get the latest news, both from the newssites and from the journalists themselves. It's where you get links to concert streams by your favourite bands and updates on their tour schedule. Where you talk with writers not only about their books, but shared interests as well. As long as the one tweeting isn't a dull corporate entity or a PR staffer it is great.

Follow people like Neil Gaiman and Guy Gavriel Kay for news out of bookland. Follow people like Tom Holland (the historian/writer) for historical news. I follow a bunch of historians and archaeologists, riveting stuff what they tweet. Follow Brett Easton Ellis for off grid movie suggestions. William Gibson for social and technological developments. Etc. Etc.

Who to follow about X-Wing though, I wouldn't know. .

YUPS.

X-WING is not as huge as we like to think it is... and yet millions of peoples have it at home and love it.

So: you can follow me.

X-Wing, social justice, video games, books, movies, and assorted other nerd interests.

@punningpundit

You can also follow my dog. He doesn't care about X-Wing, but he's adorable.

@BransonTheDog

Wow, you can definitely tell who here is in the geriatric crowd... "I hate all these new things... And I hate the kids that use them..." Twitter and Facebook are like any other technology; they have advantages and can be a helpful tools if you know how to use them...

Wow, you can definitely tell who here is in the geriatric crowd... "I hate all these new things... And I hate the kids that use them..." Twitter and Facebook are like any other technology; they have advantages and can be a helpful tools if you know how to use them...

No. Facebook is the Devil's work. Always has been. The fact that your grandmother is the primary Facebook user doesn't change how evil it is.

I mean, yes. Your point generally is well taken. But Facebook specifically is awful. I recommend everyone delete their accounts and begin living better lives. Use another social media platform if you want.

Facebook basically ensures the world will never stop cringing.

Twitter ensures the world will never run out of stupid opinions.

Kids are idiots they put their lives online not realizing once it on there's no getting it back off, so it may be funny now posting images of you at wild parties but it'll less amusing when prospective employers look at your online activities.

All my wild antics exist only in memory and there's no proof to come back and bite me.

Yeah, I'm super selective of what I post on FB, I think there's only like 6 photos of me up. I mainly joined it to make a page for my band when Myspace died (or became a bunch of bands spamming each other), but it kind of sucks for that, and the band split up. It's mostly a news feed for geeks stuff and music for me now.

Yeah, I'm super selective of what I post on FB, I think there's only like 6 photos of me up. I mainly joined it to make a page for my band when Myspace died (or became a bunch of bands spamming each other), but it kind of sucks for that, and the band split up. It's mostly a news feed for geeks stuff and music for me now.

Ditto and some freinds. I certainly do not post anything important there. Never have.

If i want to be social i go talk to people in person, face book is an abomination!

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If i want to be social i go talk to people in person, face book is an abomination!

5,368 posts

And? I also have thousands of posts on my warseer account (mostly GW bashing) I'm not on these forums to make friends that's just a nice bonus I'm here to discuss one thing amongst many that interest me.

No one knows my real name or my eye colour or what the last film to make me choke up was, I don't moan about age inflicted ailments to you lot or talk about my love life.

Non of us came here to make personal connection we came to talk about plastic spaceships and the game they came with.(que person saying they only joined to make friends)

The problem with Twitter is that you need to post inane rubbish constantly to keep in peoples feeds and be notices *to be* retweeted etc.

Thats why its full of rubbish like 'yum, had some toast for breakfast' and catalogueing every boring thing people do.

I used to run social media for wargames foundry and basically tried to explain to them (unsuccessfully) that having a twitter account you use once a month to 'say something important' is pointless when they said 'oh why are you posting loads of stuff on twitter every day?'

I tried to explain to them if you don't you slip don't, you also don't get followers without videos and other mixed post styles... or example a naff video of a cat kicking a mini off a wargames table would get you more followers than a great info post about a wargames day they were running.

But they didnt get this.

Personally I find twitter utterly inane and don't use it. But then again in my business my demographic i sell to is in their 30s to 40s and are not twitters teen market.

If i was selling pop music, i'd make it work.

Generally you want to find adult wargamers taking about a game you're going to find the best content on message boards and then facebook from my experience.

As people get older they find 'newer' social media harder to access, i'm 40, i dont like twitter but i understand it, i'm sure the next social media platfom will confuse me a bit and the one that comes after it totally baffling.

Likewise to most teenagers, old style boards/forums don't provide enough instant gratification to a generation that wants immediate updates and is used to it. My wife is seven years younger than me and is on the internet every day, personally i sometimes leave it up to a week before checking stuff (other than my work email) as its just not that important to me, i'd rather read books.

Non of us came here to make personal connection we came to talk about plastic spaceships and the game they came with.(que person saying they only joined to make friends)

The OP was specifically asking about using other social media platforms to discuss plastic spaceships, and made no mention of anything regarding personal discussion or making friends or whatever. You then announced that when you feel like being social, you talk to people in person. Which was strange, given that you spend quite a bit of time using social media to discuss plastic spaceships.

But if your post was simply a non sequitur derail prompted by the mention of twitter or facebook, well. Keep on keeping on, I suppose.

Forums are not part of social media they are a discussion board where no one cares who you are just what the content of your post is.

You follow someone on Twitter you are following a person, you follow someone on Facebook you are following a person, but you follow some on a forum your only looking at a name and a graphic there's no personal data you don't know who they are and may pass them on the street and never know.

It's apples and oranges.

Forums are not part of social media they are a discussion board where no one cares who you are just what the content of your post is.

Can't agree; the response a given post gets is informed by the identity of the poster. For example, your post regarding me over in Gadge's thread. Now, the poster has a lot of latitude in terms of shaping and presenting their forum identity, but it is an identity, and it does inform interaction.

For a discussion board where it's closer to true that no one cares who you are you're looking at places like the chans.

You follow someone on Twitter you are following a person, you follow someone on Facebook you are following a person, but you follow some on a forum your only looking at a name and a graphic there's no personal data you don't know who they are and may pass them on the street and never know.

It's apples and oranges.

Where you see clean lines of demarcation, I see something that's quite a bit messier, basically.

Or you read your reflection in untroubled waters and lo, the waters are troubled.

It's like, oh, Traviss' or Denning's take on trying to micturate the setting's intentionally stark morality, it doesn't really deepen anything and only serves to highlight irritating authorial biases.