Yeah, I put trash and Twitter in the same sentence. Shoot me.
Lately I think the crap has hit the fan with Twitter. Don’t get me wrong ladies and gentlemen, I love Twitter. I joined in March 2008 and have found a lot of great people that I’ve built good relationships with. I found Twitter to be a great techie/new media/social media community where I could turn to for many things whether it be advice on a new gadget or who around me would let me borrow a VGA cable.
But now, everyone and their mother is on Twitter. Every time I turn on the television and watch the any news networks it’s Twitter this, Twitter that, follow us on Twitter etc. The people Twitter suggest used to be people with valuable things to say in the tech world, e.g. Robert Scoble, Michael Arrington and the like. Now it’s Dateline, CNN, Barack Obama. It’s getting to where sorting through the noise is getting harder by the second. I’m not the type of person that when one thing goes mainstream I leave and loathe it, but this is something I feel a little more near and dear to. I loved the small techie community feel. Now we have porn stars, actors (or people Tweeting for them), companies advertising how to get “success” on Twitter, spammers etc. flooding the network. A few days ago I posed the question to myself, should I delete my Twitter account? It wasn’t a serious thought but one to put on the back burner.
Then I come across TweepMe.
TweepMe is a site that guarantees you get more followers by the opt-in model they have. Basically for every member that joins, everyone automatically follows them and they follow you.
Why does the number of followers matter that much???
Has this become just another popularity contest? Honestly, I don’t care how many followers I have. That doesn’t mean that I don’t care that they follow me though. I’m glad that they think what I say is valuable enough for them to follow me in their main Twitter stream. If it weren’t for a few followers I might not have some of the opportunities and information that I have now. But Twitter isn’t about the number of followers you have. If that’s your main goal on Twitter then I politely ask to please leave. It’s because of people like that the service is looking a little more bleak to me.
I may be ranting, b&m’ing and being an elitist but I just don’t like where Twitter is going. Maybe I just need to change my angle on it? I’m not sure.
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March 18, 2009 at 10:34 am |
dude, I totally understand, I saw it the other day, too, and thought “shit, well, there goes the neighborhood”
The same thing happened on myspace, it used to be an elitist kind of thing, but now we have people calling themselves “myspace whores” what the hell?
on my other twitter account, I’ve been getting people with, like, 20,000 followers, but they’re not following me, they’re following my account which I just post links on.
Twitter whores suck dick, I’ll just go ahead and say that, they all should be shot for ruining such a good thing.
ps: I’m totally retweeting this
March 18, 2009 at 3:16 pm |
I’m tired of hearing about all the social networking sites on CNN. I’d expect it from Fox, but CNN? I don’t think there’s such a thing as “news” anymore.
Also, it’s always a popularity contest. Didn’t you learn anything in HS?