What is Twitter?
Posted by danielthepoet | Filed under twitter
This is the question of the year. For those of you stuck in the MySpace age, Twitter is the web socializing tool of the future.
Originally, Twitter’s purpose was to tell your friends what you are doing, and to find out easily what they’re doing. A cool idea, but one which, by itself, would lose traction eventually if left to itself. MySpace and Facebook both allow for status updates, but not in such a simple and easy to access way.
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Twitter Users Will Eventually Privatize
Posted by danielthepoet | Filed under twitter
It’s a given. Twitter users will eventually privatize. As with any popularized social media site/venue, popularity breeds marketing and marketing breeds spam. It’s unavoidable. There are already hundreds or thousands of Twitter bots friending anyone and everyone they can find in order to market their stupid products or post links to their latest blog posts.
Those of us who actually use Twitter to communicate will no doubt be forced to make a decision: privatize our profiles or move on to the next Twitter wannabe. Privatization doesn’t solve all problems, however.
What happens when twitter spammers get smart? Read the rest of this entry »
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