Twitter = SPAM

Gary — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:07:29 +0000

Having signed up to twitter, started following some interesting contacts, and accumulated a few hundred followers. It seems to me what started out an SMS service for micro blogging is now just another vehicle for SPAM.

If I leave TweetDeck running on my PC I end up with an endless stream of useless messages.

“10 best this and that”

“have a look at our blog”

“new candidates available now”

but nothing new, nothing interesting.

If I want the latest news there are various decent websites, you may have heard of them:
BBC, SKY, CNN.

There is also plenty of industry sites that will keep you informed on the latest iphone apps that nobody buys.

A quick look at what’s trending at present revels, #nowplaying, Christmas, SNOW, #in2010. This can’t be anything more than idle chit chat.

So why do we bother, should businesses leave twitter alone, leave it for personal users who want to discuss Christmas, Snow, what they did last night, and who they want to follow on Friday?

Narhh, I’ll stay on tweeting my blogs, recommending links, re-tweeting others tweets, adding to the stream, because actually, I don’t think I contribute to the SPAM.

Like everyone else, I share useful, valuable information!

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Gary — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 17:10:19 +0000

Typically, just as we get into social networking, launch our new wordpress blog and news section, no sooner than we are live but twitter goes down.

It’s been down for the last few hours and it makes me wonder how Stephen Fry and a whole host of celebrities are managing to go about their daily lives without updating the rest of the population at the same time.

Hopefully it’ll be back soon and normal twittering can resume.

Maybe we could advise them on network architecture, we certainly don’t suffer outages.

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Twitter = SPAM

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