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- RhymeOrReason, on 04/22/2009, -4/+50Only one reason needed. 1)Being Useless
- chessthecat, on 04/22/2009, -6/+33It's just a dumb ass fad. I give it another coupla months before it's gone for good. ***** thing sucks.
- canchin, on 04/22/2009, -2/+28I think the greatest advantage of Twitter is that it so easily identifies all the twits.
- thewonster, on 04/21/2009, -2/+21They forgot to include one thing...
"A craze is a product, idea, cultural movement, or model that gains popularity among a small section of the populace then quickly migrates to the mainstream. Crazes are characterized by their lightning fast adoption and swift departure from public awareness."
http://www.google.com/trends?q=twitter - gweedo767, on 04/22/2009, -1/+15#1) People realizing they don't care Oprah ate a protein bar.
- scurvydog00, on 04/22/2009, -1/+14A small 11 item list spread over three pages......... buried to hell.
- swmbuk, on 04/22/2009, -1/+13I still don't get its purpose...
- Chooxo, on 04/22/2009, -1/+131. Buying friends. (CNN acquired @CNNBrk)... "Perps will use dirty tricks to build a large number of followers, then sell those accounts to big corporations. The end result will be a large number of accounts that suddenly turn into sources of Twitter spam, and a large number of users who feel they've been tricked."
2. Username squatting. (The dude thought @CNNBrk was CNN itself)... "Expect to see millions of people signing up using trademarked IP, hoping to cash in later."
3. Forgetting to grow a business model. "The trouble with not making money is that Twitter won't be able to keep up with demand."
4. Invasive advertising. "ads that cover the screen or otherwise delay posts could harm Twitter badly."
5. Spam. "Stories abound about a user whining about some product only to receive a quick e-mail from the company they complained about. I'd hate to see an entire ecosystem forming around the triggering of spam to your e-mail in-box every time you tweet something."
6. Bugs and viruses. "links could send you to the same kind of sites and trigger the same kinds of downloads that initiate the downloading of Trojan horses onto your system."
Things that won't ruin it: Oprah, media hype, marketing types, big businesses, Google.
Plugs his Twitter account. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+11I had to laugh at the last line of the article: "If you're not a Twitter user, what are you waiting for?"
Don't know about other people, but I'm waiting for someone to give me a compelling reason to use it. I don't care about celebrity nonsense, I'm not so information-needy that I can't wait 2 hours between updates, and I definitely don't care about the stupid minutiae of my friends' lives. Remind me again why I need this? - Bloodwine, on 04/22/2009, -0/+9Twitter isn't a right, simmer down there emo.
- jdgtrplyr, on 04/22/2009, -5/+14I use it, but it's useless.
- the1337jordan, on 04/22/2009, -2/+11This article is great! I'm gonna tweet about it to all my friends!
/s - OrangeTide, on 04/22/2009, -2/+10not only do I hate personal blogs, I hate microblogs even more.
- rkettner, on 04/22/2009, -2/+10Twitter is a fad... the entire concept fails for so many different reasons.
It's a big popularity contest that essentially lacks serious substance. - KrisStrong, on 04/29/2009, -2/+9#1...My Aunts, Parents and Grandmas using Twitter.
- jawbreaker4fs, on 04/22/2009, -3/+9Facebook should be on both lists.
- Tkuebrich, on 04/22/2009, -1/+7#7 Common sense.
- harmlessdrudge, on 04/22/2009, -5/+11Buried for infantile "intertubes"
- rkettner, on 04/22/2009, -0/+5Another key indicator is that it lacks substance. Take a look at virtually any feed... 95% of the content is useless clutter. What value does this service bring beyond temporary entertainment?
The following vs. follower count math doesn't add up either. Obviously people can't actually follow or read/respond to thousands of people... it's just a popularity contest that is not likely to last. The numbers might, but the actual active users will drop off substantially. - WhiskeyLemur, on 06/30/2009, -0/+4I don't give a frak about whether or not other people use it - I just fail to get the appeal. Since you obviously feel strongly about it, perhaps you can explain it to me - I'm genuinely curious, so this is not meant as an insult but only as a request for information.
- serif69, on 04/22/2009, -2/+6#6 thing that won't: people on digg who don't use twitter bitching constantly about twitter.
- manjas8, on 04/22/2009, -1/+5"Twitter is the hottest thing on teh intertubes right now." More like lamest thing on 'teh intertubes'.
I really don't give a ***** if some celebrity got a haircut or pooped out a diamond ring. - Wuss, on 04/22/2009, -2/+6They list "Celebrity Culture" as NOT being able to ruin Twitter? Who the hell wrote this article? If MySpace taught us anything, it's that the overmainstreamification of a once tech savvy social platform will eventually end in it's core "og" userbase fleeing to another platform.
Someone make a smarter Twitter clone and I guarantee that they'll strike gold. - PontdePierre, on 04/22/2009, -1/+5So these are six things that must be facilitated in any way possible?
- shane1337, on 04/22/2009, -2/+5#7 - twitterbar
- painperdu, on 04/22/2009, -2/+5I log in to digg just to bury twitt stories.
- JollyDumple, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Don't most of those problems apply to the internet in general?
- rkettner, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4@eadnams If I want to communicate or share things with friends, I'll use Facebook/Skype/E-mail (where my actual friends are). If I want to get news and updates, I'll use RSS (more substance, far less clutter). If I wanted celebrity updates (which I do not), I would use anything aside from the clutter that is Twitter. What purpose is it supposed to serve that isn't already served better by something else?
The whole "140 characters" gimmick is just a fad. - Thousand, on 04/22/2009, -1/+4Which is sadly the exact reason it's working.
- ispyamoose, on 04/22/2009, -3/+6Twitter is one of the dumbest social websites known to man.
- jitneyrider, on 04/22/2009, -1/+495% of all links in twitter feeds are from third-party url shorteners because of the 140 limit. I'm sure none of these services inspect these links for harmful downloads. If it becomes the norm for twitter users to click on these urls with complete disregard for redirection, there could be a true epidemic with malware as twitter becomes mainstream.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3"I have twatted".
-Steven Colbert - dronkmunk, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3And i hate spammers.
- inactive, on 04/22/2009, -0/+3The person who pooped out a diamond ring gave a *****.
- TheTorontonian, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3Twitter? Please. It is a such a waste to time. I gave it a shot a while back and unless you force your friends to join, there is no point. In fact I find it funny when a guy that I know will actually post on Facebook that he is using twitter and to join follow him. It is pathetic.
The getting the news form Twitter? Unless you are a shallow celebrity whore there is nothing worth following. CNN? Well, RSS on my phone does the same and better. Even the slightest used that I could come by which was to update my Gcal can be so much easily done on my phone cal and then just sync in mass.
It's creating a niche to something that other apps\services can do so much better.
- geodebug, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2I just came here to troll X. I personally don't use, don't understand, or just don't get why X is popular. I'm pretty ***** awesome so if I'm not into X it must be lame, which makes those who do like X retarded.
I often ask myself why, if I'm not interested in X, I keep reading posts on X and writing my disapproval? I guess I owe it to the idiots who like X to show them how ***** awesome I am. - feelmypimphand, on 04/22/2009, -4/+6twitter makes my balls hurt
- Bovorik, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3"Twitter is the hottest thing on teh intertubes right now."
It is? Someone's been listening to too much Leo. - eadnams, on 04/22/2009, -1/+3My work community is on Twitter, as well as my local community. The Police use it for bulletins and APB's here, as do the fire and traffic scanners, not to mention local news anchors and charities.
There are 7 different tweetups in my city alone. I got ym current job *at* a tweetup.
Twitter, not facebook/skype/email is connecting this city in a way it hasn't been connected before. It's bringing people face-to-face that wouldn't normally ever meet, its building real communities.
So for me, twitter has been very useful, because I made it useful. It is a tool, as I said, like google, or a hammer, it can be used for all kinds of things, you decide if its constructive.
Twitter on its own is lame and stupid, but harnessing it, making it your bitch, can be very profitable, both socially and monetarily. If you can't see the benefits... maybe social media isn't for you. - saltydawkins, on 04/22/2009, -0/+2I use twitter fairly regularly, but the thing is I don't even care if anyone ever reads it or not. I use it a storage place for all my random thoughts that I might otherwise lose, or a generic place to send drunken texts that (honestly) no one wants to get at two a.m. As a business owner I've spent many hours trying to find a way for it to be useful as a marketing tool, and I can't come up with a single one that I wouldn't find annoying as hell as a consumer. And the only way I've found it useful as a social communication tool is by turning on sms notifying, and just one person like me tweeting half-formed thoughts and rhetorical questions would drive anyone nuts fairly quickly.
- Urkel, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Twitter is both useful and useless. There was a point where it was a "geek" fad and by following the right people and utilizing twitter search then you can find tons of info. But as it becomes mainstream it is becoming useless in that it is being flooded with celebs and the mainstream public. Yes, I know you're supposed to follow, but the sheer size of Twitter is now working against it:
1) Celebs. C-list actors are finding a 2nd life out here because they can easily surround themselves with sycophants who are amazed by the direct connection with a "star".
2) Mainstream Audience. More people means more crap to wade through. There are specific tags and twittersearch that make it easier but with so many people doing it wrong then it's tough to find anything nowadays
3) Youre not Funny. Most people don't know they aren't funny, but that doesn't stop them from posting as Fake __________, Fictional Characters or impersonating a celeb. For every funny impersonator (like DarthVader) then there are 100 lame wannabe's or fakers. WeFollow sorts some of it out but in general then it's just too easy to be whoever you want.
Hopefully this whole thing blows over and something new comes about because so far it's really becoming a headache having "Twitter-talk" destroy all the good podcasts and become headline news in TV shows. - geodebug, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I just came here to troll X. I personally don't use, don't understand, or just don't get why X is popular. I'm pretty ***** awesome so if I'm not into X it must be lame, which makes those who do like X retarded.
I often ask myself why, if I'm not interested in X, I keep reading posts on X and writing my disapproval? I guess I owe it to the idiots who like X to show them how ***** awesome I am. - grindmygears, on 04/24/2009, -0/+1You nailed it - 95% of the content is useless clutter. If clutter.com wasn't registered, I'd register it a redirect the domain to twitter.com.
- geodebug, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I just came here to troll X. I personally don't use, don't understand, or just don't get why X is popular. I'm pretty ***** awesome so if I'm not into X it must be lame, which makes those who do like X retarded.
I often ask myself why, if I'm not interested in X, I keep reading posts on X and writing my disapproval? I guess I owe it to the idiots who like X to show them how ***** awesome I am. - Metricula, on 04/25/2009, -0/+1You know that you can control who you follow on Twitter, right? If all someone tweets is uselessness I drop them.
- TheXuu, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Yeah.. so lame. and whats with 3 pages for that tripe?
- jmuh, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1I don't care if it goes or stays, but if it stays, I'd like for its users to just keep it to themselves (hahaha, who am I kidding?). I would like to never have to hear "check us out on Twitter!" coming out of some local newscaster's mouth. I would like to never hear the word "tweet" in a context other than referring to actual birds, cartoon characters or Jackson 5 songs.
- Ikioi, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1Article is wrong about one thing, that celebrity culture can't ruin Twitter. A new take on an old saying about censorship:
The Internet views "celebrity" as damage and routes around it. For examples, see MySpace.com.
I like my celebrities like I like my Rolex watch ads... fenced in on ASmallWorld.net. BTW, that site is hilarious! They are FAR more arrogant when they don't think you're watching them. - Junkyarddawg, on 04/22/2009, -0/+1You can not ruin that which does not rule.
You can however blow it into small bits! -
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