This is why I like Twitter better than Facebook. In Twitter, people who follow you are really interested on what you want to say while in FB you're forced to listen to your friends (by default).
Then when you feel lonely you would just send an update to these people to listen to your feelings. Which are the people who wanted to listen to you to begin with.
Some of them might be your friends or acquaintances or just complete strangers. But the best part is they followed you and they want to hear from you.
Please explain twitter to me. I don't get it. I searched #puerh to find interesting links and comments. I found 2 comments per day, 10 in total. What should I do with this? It is not nearly enough. If I go to teachat.com there is a 1700 posts long thread started in 2008, with complex discussions and pictures.
I tried other interests, every time I come out empty handed. Is there a trick to searching content on twitter? Is twitter only for gadgets and social stuff? What about obscure hobbies?
Twitter isn't ideal for people who prefer to abstractly snipe into a discussion(which is the overwhelming tendency of hobbyist forums) because it's too personal. You have to follow a whole person, and take in their whole set of interests, and reply to them specifically if their remarks interest you. So for obscure hobbies, starting the conversation becomes much more difficult than on a dedicated site - plus take into account the relative size of the whole Web vs. Twitter.
In exchange for this weakness, Twitter gains vast influence in topics that have some critical mass of interest. Creative fields are an obvious pick - art, music, writing, programming, journalism, video games, among many others - all share a special space on Twitter. The professionals in the field have an easy time networking on Twitter since it's very informal and has "degrees" of friendship built in (comment, follow, follow-back). Plus if they're independent(which is the case for a lot of these creative fields) they have no corporate masters to hold back their thoughts; so subsequently, industry news and rumors flow through very readily - retweeting and hashtagging act to spread a single discussion across many otherwise removed individuals. This is where things get interesting, because it makes radically different perspectives collide with alarming frequency - it can't happen like that on a single forum because the "minority" or "unprivileged" perspective gets suppressed at some point.
Lifestyle and subculture topics are similarly hot on Twitter because they involve the whole person and how they choose to define themselves...often people on Twitter will converge into groups of friendship by transitioning from the "interest topic" to the people involved.
Search on twitter in pretty useless, unless you are looking for something precise, like the hashtag for an event. It either returns very few things, lots of things in languages you don't know, or is spammed to death.
You're probably better off starting by following someone you know is interested in the stuff you are looking for. A known blogger, someone vocal on a project or in a community, a friend, doesn't matter, and see who they interact with and retweet. Chime in if you want, follow these people, and repeat. After a bit of time, you'll probably end up with a decent feed.
Might be worth the hassle, or not. Depends if there is something to find or not. Demographics of the Twitter userbase are a bit different from the internet in general.
biggest factor for this: when you are lonely, you have little or no words to say, twitter encourages you with just the 140 letter limit, to put your feelings forwards.
small target seems achievable, and you talk it out, and you feel better. Happy new year mate!
Then when you feel lonely you would just send an update to these people to listen to your feelings. Which are the people who wanted to listen to you to begin with.
Some of them might be your friends or acquaintances or just complete strangers. But the best part is they followed you and they want to hear from you.