Twitter is great to network, but sometimes it annoys me. There are times that people don't get that they have 140 characters to Say something or loose out. The biggest problem is this #FollowFriday. I will see a post like: @joeschmoeb #Followfriday @name1 @name2 @name3 @name4 My question is: WHY? Who is this "Name 1"? Will I know this person
I find myself not visiting Twitter as much over the past couple of weeks. Call it conversation burn-out, and to be honest I think the Twitter craze is starting to cause me to have a shorter attention span and I that scares the crap out of me.
With the recent hacking of a number of high profile Twitter accounts some are fearful of what this means to their data security. Given that the problem seems to have been caused by Twitter's support tools being hacked these fears are probably justified. Hopefully Twitter has diconnected the support system from the external world, or dealt with the internal controls
A while ago I posted on businessgeek about my lack of faith in the Twitter business model. Essentially the advantage that Twitter has at this time is their users, and the obvious way to capatalise off this is with advertising. Unfortunately though the nature of Twitter is that generic advertising will not work with this service, however I have been