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The Twitter Conundrum – microblogging or conversations?
By bear | June 10, 2008
I have to admit to being a somewhat passive member of Twitter, more from time limitation than by design or intent. But from my distant voyeurism I’ve noticed that far from their interesting beginnings as microblog musings, tweets seem to be evolving into mid-90s IRC-style conversations for stay-at-home mums and other company-starved individuals.
Now I’ve been to a few *TUBs (Tweeter meet-ups) and met some interesting peeps and had a generally great time. But if you want to have conversations online, find a flavour of “chat” and use that instead, because Twitter is an extremely poor piece of chat software and the conversational tweets are using up much needed resources.
Worst of all however is that the most valuable and informative tweets are being lost amongst all the conversational clutter, which will devalue Twitters consumer proposition (and therefore long term viability & sustainability) going forward.
Still want to follow me?? – @nakedbearmedia
Interesting tweeter of the day – @STS124 – regular tweets from the Space Shuttle Discovery and its mission to the International Space Station… or someone claiming to be them!
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