Category: Technology Author : Steven Hodson Posted: January 2, 2009
Tags : social media, Twitter
Look – I realize that Twitter is slightly interesting to talk about but is the technology landscape so frikken boring that this inane service is all that we can talk about. With every refresh of my feed reader this past week talk about Twitter; or some stupid ass third party leech, is the main topic of conversation. It’s not just the blogs either – it’s also infecting FriendFeed and of course Twitter itself.
I thought the flood of reminiscence of the year gone by and the inevitable prognostication of the year to come would be boring as hell but damn – I got to the point that they were something to look forward. You know, Om Malik wrote a great post about mediocrity to end of 2008. The only thing missing in the post however was any references to blogging; and I gotta tell ya if all we can talk about is Twitter then we are in serious frikken trouble.
I know that we like to expound non-stop sometimes on various subjects but it seems that once you enter the world of social media everything else other than Twitter isn’t important. It is absolutely amazing that a silly ass communication service with no business plan as of yet has reduced otherwise intelligent people to nothing more than repeater stations for the same old crap.
After all just how many times can you analysis the same old nonsense? It’s not like there is anything new happening with the service. It’s not like it has changed the world anymore since the last disaster. Gawd give me a good old bitchmeme already instead of more Twitter crap. Come on Robert please put your foot in your mouth and save us from boring mediocrity for at least a couple of days.
Surely our lives aren’t that boring that the only thing we can talk about is Twitter. I know I’ve had enough and you won’t be hearing anymore from me about it for at least the rest of the week.
How about you?
Jan 2, 2009
No kidding. There's no quicker way to drive me away from a website than to see more talk about Twitter…/yawn.
Twitter Fanbois need to die…
G-Man
Jan 2, 2009
Thank you for this post – I like Twitter and I use it every day – but If I see another mundane blog post about Twitter I will vomit.
Jan 2, 2009
If you are bored with talk about twitter now then you are in for a rude awakening, because IMHO it's just getting started. Twitter or something like Twitter is going to replace email as the dominant form communication mechanism on the web. I actually think twitter will really get going when it figures out how to approach the enterprise, this is where the real money is and where the real communication problems are.
Jan 2, 2009
Steve…When did you start writing for the “Q” ??? lol,I understand completely though. Hopefully Microsoft and/or Apple will mess something up this weekend so we can write about that instead…
Jan 2, 2009
Yeah, you do have a point. Twitter is not the only thing happening in social media, and how many times can we talk about what it does.
I use twitter regularly myself, but I think it's a bit delusional to think it is going to replace email as the #1 communication on the web. It's a great tool, but certainly not the end all of communication.
Jan 2, 2009
Twitter is pretty cool conceptually. One could pontificate, conjecture, and ponder what affects it may have on the future for an eternity. Some interesting things have happened surrounding Twitter, but I definitely agree that we talk about it entirely too much.
Jan 2, 2009
well I don't know about dying
Jan 2, 2009
been writing for Duncan since October I believe (and lovin' it)
Jan 2, 2009
I use Twitter all the time as well but jeezz we gotta have more to talk about in technology than just that. Talk about boring if that is the case.
Jan 2, 2009
The power and value of Twitter could change tomorrow but the fact is that nothing about it has changed enough to warrant this kind of verbal barrage we get on a non-stop basis. Even the related services built around Twitter are usually just repeats of some other so-called bright idea. Just look at the bullshit discussions that happened around the idea of authority and ranking with a Twitter search.
Jan 2, 2009
even conceptually Rahsheen it is nothing new. IRC (or chatting) has been around for longer than the Internet. Just because some-one was clever enough to stick a bunch of pastel colours on a page with a box that asked “what are you doing” doesn't make it an society changing event like the Twitter pontificators like to make out.
Jan 2, 2009
True, but I'm factoring in that most “normal” people haven't ever used IRC that they're aware and Twitter/IM is the closest they've come to that type of communication. Definitely not new, but interesting to a lot of people who haven't been around the block yet
Jan 2, 2009
yer makin' fun of a way I spell a “made up” swear word? Wow … way to go bucko
Jan 2, 2009
if it lasts long enough – at some point VC money is going to come to a screeching halt for it. then all the talking about it in the world won't matter.
Jan 2, 2009
He's got a point, let's talk about FRIENDFEED!
Jan 2, 2009
my apologies – I missed the smiley and as I said somewhere else I totally get the irony of the post
Jan 2, 2009
let's not and say we did .. will save a lot of aggravation
Jan 2, 2009
The increased blog posts plus the increased followers + these mainstream uses of it…think it's just a sign of 2009 being a big year for the service. I just look at as a signal of what's happening out there. I head over to Winextra to get de-Twittered.
Jan 2, 2009
hey that works for me Hutch LOL
Jan 2, 2009
Twitter is going to die a slow, painful death. Or it is going to get eaten by a bigger fish that will eventually drive away its users.
Jan 3, 2009
That would be lying.
Jan 3, 2009
as it turns out by today's activities in the blogosphere you could be right LOL
Jan 4, 2009
Right. That'll be why you've written a 336 word article on it?
Jan 4, 2009
you seriously counted every words? I didn't even do that before posting.
Jan 5, 2009
OK, I agree that too much of anything can get boring. But in spite of the free publicity it gets through blogs, there are still a whole stack of people not using Twitter as a great opt-in marketing tool. Business plan or not, for those using it it's a great way to reach a new audience of zero cost and little effort.
Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz
Jan 19, 2009
OMG I thought I was alone in the world. Thank you for writing this. I like Twitter but god it's not god…OK. Get over it.
Jan 19, 2009
Hello brother. How are you mate. Fancy running into you here…Hey, how sh*t is your cricket team going to be next Ashes tour…LMAO