March 10th, 2010
Getting over #twitter
I was by no means an early adopter but I’m glad I can remember Twitter before it became a linkshare/syndication tool. My feed is a river of foursquare/Yelp check in bullshit, endless retweets, PR nonsense and what should be blog posts broken into 140 character snippets. Its signal to noise ratio is going in the wrong direction, seriously. I’m tempted to blame Oprah and Kutcher, but an equal portion is coming from my IRLs. Can my users generate some content up in this bitch?
I think I’m going to blog more.
Doomster-
I feel some of your pain, but I’m still generally digging the twitter. The key is pairing down the noise. I get a fair amount of content from people who matter. When I see a link to a post that looks interesting, I’ll almost always run it down. That’s how I got here…. I’m pretty quick to unfollow someone whose noise gets beyond my particular red line.