If you use the twitter to announce to your followers what you are doing at any moment such as taking a shower or going to the bathroom, than I am sorry for you and sorry for your followers as well. I have a simple “twitt” for you “get a life”.
Twitter is a broadcasting of short messages. How “broad” is your broadcasting depends on how many followers you have. Unless you are Bob Dylan, Julia Roberts or another celebrity your broadcasting is anything but “broad”.
Twitter is not instant either. For the geeks who spend their life in front of computer screens with several windows open all the time it is almost instant. For regular folks like me it is not.
If you think about it hard and long you may find some cases in life when the use of the twitter would be appropriate. If you think a little bit more though you may find out that other technologies such as SMS, e-mail, social networking, forums, BLOGs etc. may fit the bill. Actually, one of the most frequent use of twitter is by blogers to promote their blogs.
Finally, unlike the BLOGs, forums, social networks etc. the twitts are not searchable so that your “deep thoughts” will never make it beyond your followers.
In most cases the twitter is waste of time and a fashionable movement, which I predict will vanish. I commit to not edit this BLOG. Let’s get back to it 2 years from now and see. Meanwhile feel free to join me on Twitter. I do not post often, so that it is a win -win situation 🙂
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