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Twitter Fail

I’m not the type to be up on the latest technologies or absolute newest trends in the media world, so it took me a while before I even heard of the most recent media “fashion”: Twitter. My first question when I heard about Twitter was: “What is it?” From my research I discovered that it is basically a series of Facebook statuses. Seriously?

I don’t even like to use my status update on Facebook, so Twitter has no purpose in my eyes. If a friend of mine really wants to know what I am doing at a certain point in time, then he or she can call me. I would much rather choose to have personal contact with a friend than have them check the web for my schedule.

Further, who cares? Frankly, I’m not interested in what someone is doing every single moment of his life, nor do I care what perfect strangers are doing at that point in time. It seems a bit weird if someone wants to spend their time reading up on what strangers are doing. To me, Twitter just seems like another excuse to lose more personal contact through technology.

Clearly others have a different opinion than mine or else Twitter wouldn’t be as popular as it is. It may even be bigger than simply knowing what people are doing, but I don’t see it. What do I seem to be missing?

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  1. Ona Kiser, June 22, 2009 at 10:05 a.m.

    I have no interest in Twitter for following the pizza and park-outing schedules of friends or family. That stays on Facebook, which I rarely check in on.

    However, Twitter is a very useful work/research tool. I follow several dozen people active in my field of technology and through their commentary I find links to new and interesting articles, announcements, events, critiques, reviews, trends, etc.

    It's a quick way for me to keep up with a lot of current news in my field, without visiting dozens of different blogs or websites.

  2. Jeremy Dent from Juice Digital, June 22, 2009 at 10:56 a.m.

    You are missing a lot and, as Tyler remarks, you are hardly on the Digital Frontier here! Some argue Twitter's critical mass has already passed and we are on the down curve.

    Research, monitoring, IM, search, trends, links, instant access to news hotspots, location-based mass messaging....endless list.

    http://www.juicedigital.co.uk/home/Home.aspx

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