…and probably way later than I ever should have. I work in digital advertising and really should stay on top of all these social media apps, especially one with as much prominence as Twitter. I think when I first came across Twitter some years ago I looked into it, and I found it to be quite obnoxious and self indulgent, and all around I found it a bit shit, I certainly didn’t feel like I had anything so interesting to say that I could tweet multiple times a day and people would follow me, so I moved on. And no offense twitterers, but as far as I can tell it hasn’t changed much, if at all.
So before I wrote this I wanted to see if anyone else out there thought the same, and low and behold the first result Google spits out for “twitter is shit” is this http://www.bannerblog.com.au/news/2009/01/twitter_is_shit_at.php, and it was only written last month. And reading it I think Ashley is pointing out everything that I found wrong with Twitter when I first looked into it way back when. In fact the first thing I noticed when I joined is that it wouldn’t even let me create my full username. For better of for worse since many years ago I am londonstreetlife online, for all my profiles that’s me. But Twitter only allows for 15 characters and sadly I’m 16, so now I’ve become @londonstreetlif in the twittersphere :( And I get why, a point that the article makes, you can only Twitter a max of 140 characters, so a tweet would be taken up with @everyones_name and not much space left for anything else. Just to be clear I get that Ashley doesn’t actually think Twitter is shit, in fact she admits she’s quite addicted to it, just that she recognizes some major flaws.
I guess my main rant with Twitter is that people are using it to shamelessly brand themselves, b-list and has-been (or never-will-be) celebrities cling to it for dear fame. And corporations are using it as some sort of Q&A medium and as proof that they are transparent, there are much better platforms out there to achieve this, and as far as transparency goes, I sit behind the curtain and I know that there is a wall of lawyers and the whole transparency thing is pretty much an illusion.
So I have taken the plunge and joined because an upcoming project requires me to know the basics of Twitter, which I shamefully didn’t, or at least I thought I didn’t but after having now joined I might take that back, it is very very basic after all.
Right now I guess I can’t really judge Twitter too much because I’m so new to it. I’ve known about it for as long as it’s been about but until now I’ve not immersed myself into it so I don’t know what it’s like to follow and be followed, or to tweet my every thought and whim to my hearts content. And I get that I probably will get into it, and become addicted to it, just like many of my friends who are highly intelligent yet swear by it. But I just think at the same time I will always think it’s a bit shit.
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Twitter is still shit. I KNOW I’m not that interesting but if people want to twitter that’s fine. I see their updates on facebook.
Twitter is shit. Someone trying to re-invent the wheel.
Twitter is a bit shit… alot shit infact.
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Twitter is a bit shit. But I know something that’s even shitter…
http://www.shitter.it
Like Twitter, only shitter. Shitty tagline too, eh?
hmmm.. i hate it all… i dont much like me either.
http://www.loopy.com
why would i want to know what these people are up too anyway? they would have to be really interesting to be worth following, and if they were that interesting they could make money with a book.
Ha my most popular post! I feel bad because I’ve now become quite addicted to Twitter myself! Now that I use Twitter I get it, and it is useful, but in a much different way than I thought before I joined. It’s maybe not for everyone, but I find it most useful both professionally and socially. I haven’t followed up on my experiences with Twitter because it’s become so mainstream these days I didn’t think it necessary. Hang tight I will.
Been using it for months and still haven’t found out what the point of it is, apart from bragging about your daily mundane achievements of course. What is all the fucking fuss about?
check out my blog instead. its well boring, like half the twats on twitter.
Twitter is FUCKING shit,yet another pointless internat phenomenon
it all started with Myspace,then the "cool" kids at college all jumped onto the Facebook bandwagon,then they all migrated to Bebo,now they are all jumping onto Twitter.
Soon enough there will be another site/community tht wil start up and all the "cool" kids will migrate to this…
Cynics might say its yet another data harvester.and thats why i dont have Facebook,Myspace,Bebo,Twitter or any of these pointless sites/apps on my system..Just because i have 500 virtual friends ive never met doesnt make me a better person or more likeable..lol
Twitter will die soon enough..GOOD!
I stumbled upon this searching for the exact same phrase 'Twitter is Shit' lol.
I agree, it seems to foster obnoxious twattism.
Adding to the general consensus that twitter is shit: Twitter is shit.
i joined twitter just to get a kick out of being really pissed off by how fucking annoying other people's posts are
Twitter is shit. Even the name is shit.
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Twitter is a piece of shit, totally agree is pointless with no use just spamming. I can´t understand why people use it!!!
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Fucking Twitter really is the fucking lowest common denominator of social networking.
Do i really want to read what Paris Hilton had for breakfast? Do i want to know Some Z list celeb has just eaten lunch?
Twitter is basically a promotion service for Z list cunts and self deprecating & pretentious cunts who think their views matter.
Of course it is obvious how Twitter will try and make money, they will simply implement a charge to tweet via your cell phone..lol
As soon as that happens everyone will stop using it,simple!!!!
Take fucking Friends-Reunited for example, ITV bought it for a fortune expecting everyone to pay to use it and what happened, everyone went to Facebook which is free LMFAO
I will be glad when Twitter dies a death, anyone actually remember Myspace? Bebo? No one uses those anymore lol
When are these advertising cunts going to realise 1 million hits a day on a website does not equate to 1 million clicks of adverts..
Fucking Cunts
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