What are You Doing?

Fri, Sep 25, 2009, by Thepimpboii

Social Networks

Well ah I dont think anyone REALLY CARES !!
Sorry Twitter.

Look no insult intended, but whats the deal with Twitter?
I mean sure you can follow all the celebrities, even Barack Obama has one but who honestly cares?
You may be able to read what theyre doing, how theyre feeling e.t.c but its useless information!
And not only that but its kinda stalkerish, following all their updates like its a new religion!
Its not even fun yet people worship it, you cant keep in touch with your friends, only tell them what your doing, POINTLESS!
Another wrong thing about the operation is that people have made a language out of it!
“Oh how many tweets did you get today?”
“i got 7 tweets wow they were tweeting off the hook, ohh look what miley cyrus jst tweeted, shes tweetalicious”
JUST GET OVER IT!!
NO-ONE actually cares if you follow them, its a waste of life!
Why dont people just use Myspace orFacebook, where you can actually have a proper conversation with someone you actually know instead of telling some rapist that your having a shower!.
You see, unlike a typical blog, twitter wants to know “What are you doing?” 24 hours a day. You have a text box with 140 characters, and the idea is that you give a running commentary of every moment of your life.
So whys it so bad?
Because what you see on the site is a combination of techie messages, dot-com-geek-wannabes trying to get noticed and a whole load of stuff that’s so mundane it just makes you wonder why you didn’t spend the last ten minutes doing something constructive instead – like maybe shooting yourself in the head.
Call me old fashioned, but I really have no interest in the fact that Leo Laporte is eating his lunch, Cali Lewis is drinking a coffee with Splenda Flavor Blends, or even whose couch Kevin Rose happens to be trowing up on today.
You see, unless all your friends are on twitter the noise-to-signal ratio on the site is enough to make you want to go out and pull the legs of kittens to relieve the boredom.
But thats why Twitter is succeding, because inviting all your friends is the only way to ‘enjoy’ it.
there’s something a little odd about twitter’s business model. You see, they don’t have any ads – and they let you send and receive updates via text message for free. So how dow they expect to make money, let alone stay in business?Simple. Once they reach a critical mass, they’ll start charging for sending text messages. Already, a lot of users are using their phones so they can “stay in touch” while out and about. Many of them are finding they can’t live without twitter on their phone. (Yes, they are sad, sad people.)
But imagine twitterers are sending a million messages a day between them (which is easily achievable) and only 5% of those are sent from a phone. Now imagine twitter makes 50 cents from each of those messages. That’s $25,000 a day or $9,125,000 a year in revenue without even trying, with very little required in the name of network resources and a site so basic it hurts just to think about it.
Anyways I hope my views on the Twitter phenomenom didnt offend you, but did trigger you to thinking about the waste of time that it is.

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