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Went Hot: May 31, 2008 - 6:48 am
Posted By: theGypsy 101 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.allthingssem.com)
Category: Networking
SNIP - The message has been so loud and clear that even those that were initially skeptical have jumped on the Twitter bandwagon. And yet despite my efforts to convince myself that I should use Twitter, I find myself more and more inclined to shut down Twhirl and move on.
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If Twitter had been written for people to do business on I would agree with him.. But it wasn't, so I don't..
@Feydakin I think the Twitter creators put out a tool to allow people to communicate. I think the way people have chosen to use it is what is making it seem less useful to me. Even from a non-business perspective, I find it difficult to extract more value/entertainment from Twitter than I can get from other sources.
@theGypsy I guess a lyrical title isn't enough for Sphinners :-)
Well it's comming along... but you now how sensitive the sociallites are... I posted it at the FriendFeed Social Media room... should have seen some of the comments there..lol.... sensitive bunch...
this is probably one of the best posts about Twitter to date. nice find.
..I m a notorious fence sitter with SMM... so I also enjoyed Feyd's comment. As a tool to be social I do enjoy... as a marketing option on a larger ROI analysis... well, that remains to be seen. Obviously the scale-ability issues are also troubling with this toy... he he...
Of course Twitter will die, as will MySpace, Facebook and other current technologies. Pretty stale entry overall as just seems to be rehashing of what others have said before.
Sphinn is the only place where I ever see anyone mention Twitter.
Twitter won't die until it gets a new favicon
:-)
@DJLitten I was arguing that Twitter will go away sooner than people expect because of many flaws. You are right that eventually everything goes away.
I disagreed with the article and posted...
The article seems to imply that a twitter is only valuable if it is a two way conversation 'The problem is that many of my messages to these people go unanswered.'
My take up on Twitter was that it can be used for a multiple of things including being similar to Facebook status.
I don't think that it is necessary for a twitter to be interesting if there is a two way conversation. I also do not mind the 'what I am doing' dotting between actual information. It is quick and easy to sift through these and at least shows you are dealing with a real person and not just a marketing machine.
Let people use Twitter for whatever they prefer, thats the wonderful thing about it and it certainly wont die - more likely to fall over from over use.
I also disagree with the article and posted...
"I tend to agree more with Mr. Wellbelove, that Twitter may eventually come to disuse through over-use. All things eventually die, even online services. Twitter is fun and can be interesting. If you want it to be only of commercial use you missed the point. It is about community."
Also regarding MariosAlexandrou's assertion that "Twitter will go away sooner than people expect because of many flaws," if refer you to the initial releases of MS Vista, MS XP, MS Millenuim Edition and nearly everything else Microsoft has released in the past 20 years, flawed software is apparently a fact of the nature of the business. So Twitter has a little flaw here and there. I suggest that their biggest problem recently stems from shortsighted projections of the need for scalability. Read that as "Grew bigger than we planned, faster than we planned." Sounds like a problem most of us would love to have in our businesses!