05.12.08
I hate Twitter, even if it is 3 minutes faster than the USGS
Twitter Beats (Wow, By 3 Minutes) The USGS With China Earthquake News I couldn’t agree more Danny. So much so I barely know where to start.
I’m apparently not ADD enough, or lonely enough, or self righteous enough (and I am all of those) to like twitter.
I get IM. And I get Blogging. But I don’t understand wanting to have this stream of things in other people’s lives all day.
I guess that is why I hate Facebook Apps. And MySpace, and those homeless people who want to tell me their life story as it happens as I walk along the street in San Francisco.
I’m big on Context and Authority this month. If I could get a data feed of Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, or George W. Bush all day as it happened, what decisions they were making and why. I’d join twitter.
Move the notch down a bit. If I could get that for a handful of VC’s, Top management at a company I was working for. I’d join twitter.
Robert Scoble. I’m sorry Robert, I enjoy when we hang out, I always like talking with you, I think you are the embodiment of the blogger. But ever since your posts dropped to less than 250 words most of the time I haven’t made daily stops to your site.
In fact here I made a Yahoo Pipes RSS for posts by Scoble that are over that length. Those looking for a daily fix be warned it averages one a week.
Mathew Ingram and I rarely agree, so it should come as no surprise that I would publicly ridicule anyone who wants to claim that twitter is offering more fair and accurate new coverage than mainstream media.
I will guess that Mathew wakes up to something other than NPR, which gave great coverage of "normal" people’s live during the California fires.
Even the BBC is on the Twitter Bandwagon.
Twitter is an ego tool. A way to make everyone feel they have a voice. And the only good thing it does is limit their whining to 140 characters.
This is a response to too many posts to give attribution to all of them, so don’t call me the next ArsTechnica.