Comments on: Twitter is going to die

By: Steve Magruder

Steve Magruder — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 15:51:43 +0000

I like Twitter, and think it's a great way to broadcast (really, narrowcast) personal and business messages of various sorts.

What irks me about it is that some people actually think of Twitter as a proper discussion facility. Maybe I'm "old school", but I think message boards (and their brethren) still kick ass in this area. Even when I've had a back-and-forth with someone on Twitter, it has never felt like a complete conversation, with its 140 character limits and no specific location of our full convo so others can easily contribute. I feel like all conversations, even important ones, just get lost in the thing.

Some webheads like to drool over a seeming general lack of structure (not to mention new, shiny objects -- there's a syndrome for that), but the reality is that it isn't always good for all potential uses. And trying to make it good for all uses is stretching it well beyond its original utility to the point of it all just not making much sense design-wise.

Twitter isn't going to die. It's just going to become a social utility that some take serious in various ways, while most others will continue to ignore it. And both sides will be happy with their decision.

By: Frantic Rock

Frantic Rock — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:46:12 +0000

Well man, it's november of 2009, and twitter is the #13 traffic ranked site in the US and in the world. So it definitely didn't die. But I - like you do not see much appeal in it. I followed Guy Kawasaki on twitter, and he posts a whole bunch of stuff about every topic you can think of. Most of it is cool new stuff - and it's OK if you're into new ideas.

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Sun, 01 Mar 2009 19:41:05 +0000

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By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:20:56 +0000

Couldn't agree more (apart from the Guy Kawasaki part). I had a recent purge, and felt pretty bad. Then went back to reciprocating follows.

Purest folly.

I am now at the stage where I need to either unplug entirely and call it a day (few days and haven't missed it) or have a purge to make Stalin look on in envy.

At some point Twitter went from being a great source of new ideas, casual banter with people I liked and a kind of delicious-to-your-doorstep, to being an utter waste of screen real estate and source of nausea at people's propensity to self-promote and feign interest in an effort to further their own ends. So, at the moment, it brings out the curmudgeon in me. Sure I could play a more active role in managing my account blah blah, but once upon a time I didn't used to have to, people were just... cooler, back in the day.

I'm of the old fashioned opinion that decent content made well promotes itself far better than any amount of pseudo-networking brown-nosed post-highschool contact-harvesting.

By: Changing Your Twitter Handle to Consolidate Your Personal Brand « Glenn Hilton’s Blog

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:30:23 +0000

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By: TWITTER | blog.pauloribeiro.net

TWITTER | blog.pauloribeiro.net — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:21:42 +0000

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By: carlnunes

carlnunes — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:33:43 +0000

Twitter is what you make it. So far Twitter has allowed it self to be exploited. I think a lot of us forget Twitter is more of an experiment and another free system where they will capitalize on the data collected and sell information to other organizations for marketing purposes.

If you don't like blocking spam, maybe try a service like Status(no plug intended) http://statushq.com/ .

By: Pink

Pink — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:57:31 +0000

The article was long...but fine..so i read it.

But some comments were way too long so i skipped it.

It would be beautiful if we could regulate comments section to 140-160 characters, twitter-style. Did i hear, irony?

By: Web Designer

Web Designer — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 09:04:05 +0000

What are we going to do with so many social networking sites. People are no longer going outdoors just staying indoors to chat on their PC. What a pathetic situation. Long gone are the adventure days.

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