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!