yahoo, google, Gmail,Blogspot,Orkut, Facebook and now Twitter. I am a lazy blogger for various reasons (I can't come up with short posts :)). I read about this twitter and my usually inquisitve brain, wanted to try it. I was inspired by this micro blogging concept and jumped into the twitter bandwagon. I think I was a little early compared to most of my friends.I was left lone in the twitter world. I was lost in the twitter jargon. But, got acclimated to the idea. I was bored initially, as i wasn't interested in neither celebtwities (It doesn't really excite me to know, what color Britney has painted on her nails) nor twissips (eg. some X is breaking up with her twelfth boy-friend). So, I was dormant till a few buddies nudged me and said "we are in" :). I made an honest second attempt. I picked up most of the buzzwords. I met twitts, posted tweets, nudged tweeps, celerated twestivals, read Bhagavadtweeta, nominated Mr.Tweet. After all this, I find twitter insipid now. I am a dim-twit. I lost to the challenge of coming up with catchy phrases in 140 characters :(.
I find that there are just two types of tweets - one in which you say what you are doing? (Yes! I am not talking about facebook) and the other that is basically some universal resource locator(web url). So, as it goes, there are just two types of twitts - one who is new and is just excited in letting people know that he is watching American idol with a sip of cappuccino. The secomd one, is this sooper cool techy(or that's what he thinks) who likes to share everything that he reads from dawn to dusk. I am not against the first group. I am in fact happy that they are active. But, it just annoys me when I am looking for something innovative and end up seeing three tweets in a row like, @11.58 - Am gonna hit the bed. GN! . @11.59 : I am turning the lights off. GN! . @12.00 - I am gonna close my eyes. GN! (The last one is from a phone). On seeing such tweets swamping my homepage, I just feel like shouting at the top of my voice, "Bloody, quit from twitter!". An occasional "Am enjoying the early morning rain with a sip of freshly brewed filter coffee" - is sure my cup :). I don't support group two either. I am not quite happy, when I see a tweet which has just web urls with absolutely no intro to it. My tweet to them is "Buddy!, please share your link in the Google reader". A "mixed review on Google Wave - url" is my kinda tweet, as it gives me a choice to decide on whether to read the review.
The mad competition of "Yey! I have more followers than the people I follow", just gets onto my nerves. I am sure this wasn't the intent of Jack, when he founded twitter. On a fine day, I decided to unfollow twitts who aren't active. To my surprise, I had to unfollow most of my friends. I assumed they either fell in any of the above specified categories and found it boring to continue the same mundane tweets and have opted out, or are like me hanging between the two and is unable to answer why tweet?
All said, it will be unfair on my part, if I don't acknowledge couple of my friends whose tweets are informative, interesting and ingenuous. I wish they don't lose interest till the time I am singing around with the birdie. I also quite like the social sector tweets - sharing the ideas. But again, the disadvantage is - for the information about the idea, I can use the Google Reader, and twitter doesn't really succeed in keeping up the discussion. I have to agree that twitter sure sounds interesting when you get live updates like the one from Iran or Srilanka and again because they are honest first reactions of the public. But, again it is a himalayan task to search for such tweets. After a conversation with a friend about tweetie (not the twitter client, but the pet name for twitter, like sweetie and cutie :)), I decided that twitter is for twitts interested in celebtwities. It probably is a cool thing to know whom Malika Sharawat is fighting with at the moment, directly from the hourse's mouth, exclusively for her tans (twitter fans - followers on twitter).
To end, i personally feel, Tweeting is a cliche and I don't see a cause for it. There is so much of hype and hoopla around it. You think that this is Hayabusa and decide to befriend it. Once befriended, you realize that it is just a cuckoo and get disappointed. But, since you are friends now, you don't want to leave it and hang around for a while.
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"Twitter - short and sweet if you like to tweet" - yipee! <>
