What's wrong with Twitter? I'm curious to get some feedback here. Sorry for the loaded question but I'm hoping to gain a sense for what this group thinks about Twitter and their partner ecosystem. To begin with if you use Twitter (or identi.ca) are there limitations that should be explored via the platform or third party? If you did try it but don't anymore what happened? |
If you're a techie who needs to actually get work done on hard technical problems, it's a total disaster, time- and distraction-wise.
One analogy would be the tech pundit (forget whom it was) who said reading the NYT at breakfast would send him into a mental maelstrom for the rest of the day, on overload. Twitter is like 100 micro-NYTs. ;-)
At least that's my (admittedly short stabs of, now and then) experience.
[Edit:] I suppose if you had a reasonably-sized close group of associates who only twittered a few times a day, you could keep it under control as a 'water cooler' experience.
In the end, it's what's valuable to you. If you can't (or don't want to) find a group of people to follow that you find interesting, helpful, or whatever, that's fine. Just because you (or sharpn, or my wife) don't find the service valuable doesn't mean that there's no value in it for anyone, though.