Say Goodbye to The Real Twitter!

so, your minutiae are better than theirs? I think you have a seriously overinflated opinion of the value of tweets and twitterers of this mythical golden age of twitter you have imagined. What you bemoan is what twitter seems to have been about for many people from the start. As usual, its all about attention and friend/follower whoring.

I have over 100 online friends.

I follow maybe 3-4 people on Twitter.

I’m about to eliminate all of the people on that list.

I get tired of seeing what someone ate for lunch.

I don’t want to read Twitter News Summaries.

Twitter is useless to me right now.

Twitter is just like one of my daughters, babel babel babel. I just cant see the thrill in twitter,

“Now we’re seeing Tweets that talk about lunch etc.”

Maybe I got the wrong idea about the whole site, but I’m sure you tweet about what you are doing, which would include eating lunch.
Twitter’s great for finding great websites or blog posts that people tweet, but that doesn’t mean we should only use twitter for “informative and educational” purposes.

I don’t think we are in danger of loosing it I just think we are going to have it diluted. I worry that my generally informative web design / development and technical tweets would be lost on may of my friends in the non technical world.

I hope it doesn’t go the way of facebook that’s all I can say.

@Prydie

as long as you continue to follow who you want to follow instead of following those whose tweets you do not value, then the important information won’t be lost. So really, it isn’t gone.

That’s like saying the internet is gone just because there are a lot of horrible websites.

True, but that’s what nice on twitter: You can follow only whoever stuff you care about.
On Facebook, i get to see all of my “friends” activities, especially the new and particularly annoying “social hangman” .. i wish i could unfollow them .. but they are “friends” !

why not just find another microblogging site like identi.ca or jaiku?

I love that when people talk about Twitter.. all you hear is the negative. It reminds me of when Myspace became huge. Everyone talked trash about it but when they got home and on their PC, secretly they logged in their account and surfed all night just like the rest of the world.. then trash talked it all day. I’ve come to realize it isn’t until something is popular enough for us all to trash talk that it truly is.. POPULAR.

So, I’m not going to sit here and act like I don’t like Twitter or enjoy using it. I like seeing what people ate for lunch. What I don’t like is seeing people sign up on Twitter JUST to spam us with their links to money making schemes or back to back links to their blog. If we are properly selective with who we follow we can turn our personalized Twitter account into something amazing and with 19.8 million users and growing anyone that denies what I’m saying is simply wrong.

Come love Twitter with me! http://www.twitter.com/scodal

who cares about Oprah and Ashton, if you don’t likem don’t follow them. I think Twitter is a fantastic tool and will continue to be… I’ve spent more money on crap people have tweeted in the past 3 months than I have all of last year… so, it’s working. I’ve also got great programs for my MAC because of Macheist. It’s a great tool.

IMO the fact that people tweet about their lunch gives free statistics to food marketers on what people worldwide are eating. Although I’m myself a tech-blogger; I was never under the illusuion that Twitter was for techs only.

Twitter is doing an excellent job of gettingt the world talking; which is a good thing, as a lack of communication breeds only ignorance.

I agree wholeheartedly with the comment from James. You can, and always will be able to, get exactly what you want from Twitter. The popularity of Twitter should have absolutely no effect on the quality of information you are able to receive from those you choose to follow. If you want to read the mundane details of someone’s life on a play-by-play basis, then follow those who supply that kind of detailed information. If you’d rather stick to news, information and tips/tricks from Twitter, then only follow those who tweet that particular flavor of content. No one is being forced into following anyone else. It’s all about self regulation and it’s extremely simple in practice: Follow as many people as you wish, un-follow those who don’t deliver what you’re looking for.

@James - actually, his minutiae IS better than theirs. He actually works in the tech industry and has informative things to post. Most people do not. Whether you’d like to admit it or not, this really is the golden age of Twitter, just like six months ago was the golden age of Facebook. Twitter was (and still is to a large degree) a way of learning about breaking/interesting news. Now that “everyone” has a Twitter account, it’s lost some of its charm, just like Facebook did when it opened its doors to the masses. However, if you know how to really use it (which I guess you don’t since you don’t see the real value of it), you’ll know who to follow and how to reap the benefits of what other people have to offer. If you see Twitter as just another “friend/follower” whoring outlet like Facebook has become, then you just don’t get it.

In some ways I agree. I have noticed that Twitter is going more mainstream, and I would rather keep it among us “Geeks”. Fortunately because twitter is just text it should never become a paid service. It would take the entire earth’s population to make there be enough server farms of text to compete with youtube. I disagree about your reasoning for quitting Twitter. I am fine with people tweeting about “whatever” because we never are forced to follow anyone, and if you don’t want certain people to follow you, then block them.

Twitter ’s a better way to share updates on the net , i love it , also i have add some good friends .
Be in touch with Twitter !

Personally I think Twitter is like MySpace was when it came out… it appears to be about collecting massive amounts of followers, seems to be a competitive thing, but does that really equate into more readers or more market share?

I suppose in the end it is purely a form of advertising, and that is the point when people like Oprah get on there. When a company purchases a flyer to mail out to a residential area, it blankets the market with its ad, and hopefully a few people will come to the store… One more way to stay in audience’s mind.

On a personal level, people will use it for what suits them. Twitting to friends and family about personal things. Social media and tech people will continue to use it to share ideas and network.

For me, I merely post once and awhile an update or link, or thought, and I don’t normally do any @ replies / conversations. I don’t find a lot of value in Twitter, so I spend little time on it.

ehh, i havent seen a change in twiter yet…

I think twitter can be used for whatever you want to use it for. Just don’t follow the people who uselessly talk about their lunch. The only reason that people are talking about that stuff is because this is what the media has portrayed twitter to be, a place for useless information rather than a place for useful information. I am sure the faithful users will stay the same and the new users will stay for a while and then they will just forget about telling random people about their BLT.

well I do have to say that twitter was created to “let people now what you ate for lunch.” If you watch the explanatory video on their site it gives you the example of running late. or cooking dinner. I do agree that some people just don’t post responsibly or make no sense but I also think that it’s ok to post “going to starbucks for a strawberry blended lemonade”. THIS MESSAGE IS EXACTLY 412 CHARACTERS LONG!

I agree with Shannon. Considering how Skittles is using twitter, then why complain about who had what for lunch? I’m sure many more companies will start using twitter for consumer feedback on what they ate for lunch.

If I want a good giggle.. All I have to do is a twitter search for “stinky feet” and it’s on!!!

LOL

But I’m sure a Dr. Scholls marketer would do the same. :p

I’ve found twitter to be very helpful to my business.

There are several ways I’m benefiting from using it, but this one in particular has stood out for me

- Great For Social Proof: If I get positive @replies about either my products or any content I put out, I take a screenshot of it to use on my sites as testimonials. P

I’ve collected about 20 so far. People recognize that it’s a twitter post @reply to me and I believe it jacks up your credibility.

Think about it, you only have 140 characters to get your point across to your followers. So you try to sum up your status as best as possible. Ends up being a great piece of social proof for you

Jason

Seriously? Oprah saying that… Twitter should delete her account!!!

So does this mean you follow Oprah? No wonder you’re dissatisfied! I guess I’m using Twitter incorrectly, but I only follow people who are interesting to me.

It depends what your “goal” is when using twitter.

If you want to increase your marketing efforts using the site then more “surfers” is a good thing.

I am noticing these tweets aswell. it takes away the fun of bragging about our lives. lol =)

Hopefully, the type of person on Twitter to be “hip” will soon tire of it and find another hot, new trend. Use the block feature to weed out whomever you wish, problem solved.

Twitter? What’s Twitter?