With our own David Krug so madly in love with Twitter, I thought I would add a contrarian view on the service. Scott Karp pretty much makes all the points against the service that I would have liked to make.
It’s only a matter of time before people start to Twitter in the bathroom. If you don’t know what Twitter is (either because you don’t follow online technology or you’ve been locked in a sock drawer), that is as bad is it sounds, but not in the way you probably think
The Twitter feeds that I have read thus far, look suspiciously like instant messaging conversations between 16 year olds from the MySpace demographic. You don’t have to look any further than the difference in the quality of Jason Calacanis’ blog and his Twitter feed to see what the service really has to offer.
Will the service replace blogging? Heck no!
“Twitter is just the next step in the evolution towards the complete fragmentation and disintegration of attention.”
Originally posted on March 18, 2007 @ 2:44 pm
Vince Williams says
“The Twitter feeds that I have read thus far, look suspiciously like instant messaging conversations between 16 year olds from the MySpace demographic.”
I agree, but there are better uses– Twitter has a feed from the New York Times.
Curtiss Thompson says
Yeah I’m still trying to wrap my head around why twitter is so popular myself. I mean I heard about it and decided to try it out, just to get an idea of what everyone is raving about and why.
I mean I can’t see how it differs in any way from away messages you leave on an instant messaging client…just built into a website service. If there is something more to this, please let me know.
HART (1-800-HART) says
Nice muhammad .. I am in agreement with you. Yuucch.
David Krug says
It’s just a new way to communicate and feel like your real friends are in the same room sharing your moments with you.
That’s what i like about it.
Dave C. says
I’m right there with you Muhammad. Although I have an account on Twitter, I just can’t get into it. The whole process seems so disconnected to anything real.
What is John or Jane Doe doing today? Well, since I don’t really know them, despite my voyeuristic tendencies, I really don’t care. I’ve got other things to do that make better use of my time.