Tweeted Out
Monday, June 22. 2009
I think Twitter is "over."
It seems to have become mainstream and mostly noise now. The people I started out following on Twitter whom I found interesting seem to be tweeting less and less. The overall fun level is way down, too—Darth Vader has only made three tweets in the last six weeks, and Michael Scott hasn't been on Twitter in over a month.
My own little experiment with celebrity impersonation was mostly a flop. It seemed hardly worth the effort to put a lot of time and thought into being amusing for only a couple of followers, and time management eliminated any opportunities for regular updates some time ago (nearly three months). Of course, had I 30K followers like Dunder-Mifflin's dunder-boss or 90K like the Sith Lord, I wouldn't give up so quickly. Life is not a popularity contest, but Twitter is. So...
I'm walking away from Twitter. It's not "uber-cool" anymore, anyway, and I'm finding it's become more a drain on productivity than a useful or interesting diversion. Maybe I'll change my mind in future, but for now anyway..."tweet out."
I think Twitter is "over."
It seems to have become mainstream and mostly noise now. The people I started out following on Twitter whom I found interesting seem to be tweeting less and less. The overall fun level is way down, too—Darth Vader has only made three tweets in the last six weeks, and Michael Scott hasn't been on Twitter in over a month.
My own little experiment with celebrity impersonation was mostly a flop. It seemed hardly worth the effort to put a lot of time and thought into being amusing for only a couple of followers, and time management eliminated any opportunities for regular updates some time ago (nearly three months). Of course, had I 30K followers like Dunder-Mifflin's dunder-boss or 90K like the Sith Lord, I wouldn't give up so quickly. Life is not a popularity contest, but Twitter is. So...
I'm walking away from Twitter. It's not "uber-cool" anymore, anyway, and I'm finding it's become more a drain on productivity than a useful or interesting diversion. Maybe I'll change my mind in future, but for now anyway..."tweet out."
It seems to have become mainstream and mostly noise now. The people I started out following on Twitter whom I found interesting seem to be tweeting less and less. The overall fun level is way down, too—Darth Vader has only made three tweets in the last six weeks, and Michael Scott hasn't been on Twitter in over a month.
My own little experiment with celebrity impersonation was mostly a flop. It seemed hardly worth the effort to put a lot of time and thought into being amusing for only a couple of followers, and time management eliminated any opportunities for regular updates some time ago (nearly three months). Of course, had I 30K followers like Dunder-Mifflin's dunder-boss or 90K like the Sith Lord, I wouldn't give up so quickly. Life is not a popularity contest, but Twitter is. So...
I'm walking away from Twitter. It's not "uber-cool" anymore, anyway, and I'm finding it's become more a drain on productivity than a useful or interesting diversion. Maybe I'll change my mind in future, but for now anyway..."tweet out."
Craig on :
The thing I have enjoyed about twitter is the "party-line" style of communication that you, Jimmy and me were able to have. Yeah, it was just chit-chat, but a bit more like conversation among friends, however trivial.
I have been disappointed in the lack of posts by the fake famous people, but I have replaced them with real famous people I find interesting:
http://twitter.com/donttrythis
http://twitter.com/grantimahara
http://twitter.com/alyankovic
Brent on :
Just sayin'.
Did like having people listen to me talk, though.
P.S. And I do enjoy the real-time convos w/friends, as opposed to the voyeuristic ogling of the spoilederatti, but we could do that in Google chat or IM. Like we used to. Anybody up for a Car Wars game? (Congruously, I just read most of AADA Road Atlas #3 last evening for wind-down nighty-nights.)
CJ on :
Jimmy Anderson on :
CJ - It's a communication thing. When you're bombarded anyway there's no reason to go looking for it, like right now at work.