Twitter is dumb

Twitter is chatter. Disconnected, random, sporadic thought-lets. What’s the point?

Its sub-140 letter messages don’t stand on their own. Chatter needs to be with something bigger. A blog, text messages directed to specific people, or Facebook profile can help.

But thought-lets on a simple web page? Meaningless!

So what makes Twitter special? Beats me. Maybe if it was a platform, some kind of technological innovation? But it’s not. WordPress already has Prologue, Facebook has largely cloned Twitter’s strengths. And it’s outrageously simple.

Twitter remains unprofitable. I’m not surprised. It’s dumb.

I’m not jumping on the Twitter bandwagon. How about you?

  1. Leigh says:

    I KNOW! I am feeling the exact same way about it! My roommate is on Twitter (as am I, honestly, but I stopped using it) and he asked me the other day if I was going to start Twittering again. I just don’t get it. It doesn’t do anything for me. How do they stay afloat?

  2. Aren Cambre says:

    Her conclusion: “Twitter makes for very good people watching.” Wow, I want it. (not)

  3. Alex says:

    Ever been around somebody who feels they need to natter on and on about everything and anything going on no matter how trivial?
    Thats who twitter is for. People who can’t keep quiet.

  4. Ford says:

    I have a twitter but I have not been on it for 8 months (just logged on to the check that) have 3 twitters and the first one was in march of 07 so once again I find something back when it was new and stupid and now every one ask me if I have one now that it is poplar and stupid

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