NOT EVERYTHING THAT 'TWITTERS' IS GOLD!

So before I joined www.twitter.com, I was highly skeptical about the continuous Facebook status update. But after joining I would soon learn that this was no Facebook. This was purely its own monster!

From the actual website is the following:

WHAT?

Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?

WHY?

Because even basic updates are meaningful to family members, friends, or colleagues—especially when they’re timely.

• Eating soup? Research shows that moms want to know.
• Running late to a meeting? Your co–workers might find that useful.
• Partying? Your friends may want to join you.

HOW?

With Twitter, you can stay hyper–connected to your friends and always know what they’re doing. Or, you can stop following them any time. You can even set quiet times on Twitter so you’re not interrupted.

Twitter puts you in control and becomes a modern antidote to information overload.

So twitter allows you 140 characters to let people know what you are doing. Again at first you think "absolute foolishness!", because if I have more to say I can just send an email, or a Facebook message even, since Facebook seems to have replaced email anyway.

But forget only friends and family, when i can follow John Mayer, Tony Matterhorn, and famous producers, actors/actresses, models, and don't forget news networks. So twitter can be an educational experience, knowing what is going on in the world as it happens, to giving you extreme insight into the personalities and thought processes of the ones you adore and admire. You actually become their FOLLOWER...interesting.

Turns out Twitter is an excellent promotional tool, and is a great idea for anyone in any form of business that needs to reach a large audience, especially when reminding them of upcoming events etc.

This blog touches on the fact that not everything that 'twitters' is gold, and some of this is based on the experiences of many in twitterland (Sources shall remain unnamed).

The dull side of twitter includes:

1. TRY TALKING TO YOUR FAVE CELEB: You can follow the entertainers that you idolize, but like in the real world, you don't know them, so they never talk to you when you speak to them. This technically is ok, because on a regular day i guess you don't talk to people you don't know, but when you feel connected to them, especially as their FOLLOWER, you would hope that maybe once they would respond.

2. CELEB CROSS TALK: This is further amplified by the fact that the entertainers talk amongst themselves, and actually cross talk around you. Now this can sometimes be very annoying. You can't even slip a word in. Again you don't know them, so why should you care to get involved. Thing is normally when you are talking to someone else, you don't have 1500 people FOLLOWING the juicy INSIDE conversation. It tickles me in the weirdest way, and I think it is almost equivalent to WHISPERING IN PUBLIC...it's just rude! So maybe the tweet guidelines should say "Only tweet about things people can figure out".

3. OVER-TWEETING: The aim of a 140 character tweet is to say something concise, succinct...ahhm to the point maybe...ahhm "scratching my butt", "taking a pee" BUT oh no, some insist in sending 5 to 6 sequential tweets. So maybe you need to revisit Facebook, hotmail, gmail etc, because this really wasn't the intention of Twitter. A few tweets throughout the day is cool, but a page of tweets within 5 minutes is totally uncool. Control yourselves.

4. LOSING FANS: So you think twitter is sooo cool some of you celebs, but what you don't realize is that some of you are compulsive and have zero control, so you don't even know when to shut your big mouths and just keep it to a minimum. Suddenly the cool star you were to me is no longer, as you really aren't that cool in twitterland. Some of you need to consult your managers before you tweet dammit...that is if it isn't your manager that is tweeting for you, then you need to check them, cause they may be ruining your career.

5. IT HAS IT'S OWN LANGUAGE: So a when you send someone a message you send a TWEET not a TWIT. The past tense of TWEET is TWITTERED not TWITTED. The list goes on. Maybe this is funny to me cuz I pay attention to small details, but if you're gonna be a twit-whore then learn the language and be fluent in it.

6. HAVEN'T WE TWITTERED BEFORE? So if i know you and I sent you a direct tweet that you haven't responded to, don't be sending 50 million regular tweets, cuz clearly you are ignoring me cuz I know you are online. Arrrrrrrrrrrgh. That really annoys me. It's like saying you're at home on your pc tho that last message was sent from your mobile phone. It is deceptive. If you have time to be sending your page of tweets than respond to my damn message dammit.

I could go on even more. With all this said I must say I love twitter as a promotional tool, and I would encourage persons with any current business sense to definitely get a twitter account, but this note is really here to warn you about how you use all the fun things available to you on the net, like twitter, Facebook notes : ) and blogs.

NONE OF THE ABOVE MATERIAL WAS DIRECTED AT ANY ONE IN PARTICULAR BUT AGAIN ARE THE EXPERIENCES OF MANY I KNOW. THE BLOG IS WRITTEN IN PURE FUN AND JOY OF SELF-EXPRESSION. KEEP ON TWITTING I MEAN TWEETING!