According to a survey, Twitter is over hyped:
Micro-blogging service Twitter remains the preserve of a few, despite the hype surrounding it, according to research.
Just 10% of Twitter users generate more than 90% of the content, a Harvard study of 300,000 users found.
Estimates suggest it now has more than 10 million users and is growing faster than any other social network.
However, the Harvard team found that more than half of all people using Twitter update their page less than once every 74 days.
And most people only ever “tweet” once during their lifetime, the researchers found.
I have never tweeted and am not likely to. It has always struck me as somewhat pointless. Nothing I have seen changes that opinion. But, then, I have never bothered with Facebook or LinkedIn either and feel no particular compunction to do so. Perhaps I am not a social animal.
I’m the same. I’ve always thought that Twitter was mainly for two types of people – those who think that their lives are so interesting that other people will want to know about their every bowel movement, and depraved stalkers who er…really do want to know about someone else’s bowel movements.
As for Facebook, it seems to me a little too much like willy waving – “Look how many friends I’ve got!”. Nope, they’re acquaintances – if they were close friends then surely you’d be seeing them in person or talking on the phone, not leaving messages in ‘TXT SPK’ on their Facebook page.
But then, I’m obviously one of those people whose neighbours are interviewed one day on the news and say things like “Yes, he was a bit of a loner…kept himself to himself, y’know? To be honest, I didn’t even know that he owned a chainsaw.”.
Ah Longrider, you must be one of these dangerous subversive free thinkers who actually has a life.
I seem to be spending most of it taming a rather large garden at the moment.
So this boils down to “Twitter just like the rest of the internet” then.
“Perhaps I am not a social animal”
Or a solipsistic twat either.
How’s your furry Agincourt re-enactment group doing BTW?
It’s ongoing. One of the enemy moved in and had a litter of kittens. It’s caused some ructions.