THE FUTURE OF TWITTER
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Twitter has turned to a self-sufficient tool for mad link-share w/ no one actually clicking on them, & no one actually replying your tweets. It’s just an automatic “share” we click after we post on our #blogs in hope someone would care.
Does anyone care? Have you checked how many times your “followers” have “followed” and/or commented on your blog?
Have you “replied” to someone in order to start a small conversation, maybe only to “Good-day” one another? How many times you got a reply?
Some people sharing, re-tweeting and writing small thoughts in perfect isolation under the public uninterested gaze… is that twitter?
What’s in store for Twitter, then? Facebook takes over, with numerous possibilities of the group-life, where “closed” groups could remain isolated by the rest and discuss in threads. Sure enough, Twitter has the feature called “hashtag” which serves as a key word, a thread name of sorts.
When I joined I would look for my closest tweeps and @ them to talk to them. Not a very private thing, but still people used to “reply”, and back, and back. Nowadays, it has got somewhat lonely there. Here is an example: someone logs in to Twitter in the morning and tweets something like: Up w/ a headache. Need #coffee. Badly. Now. Any1 up 4 it? #morning
This person may get a couple of replies by followers, in the vein of: #morning back 2 U. Weather fine here. Wh bt U? #coffee is good.
Or, he/she may not get a single reply. Maybe no followers online. Hardly. Maybe followers online are too busy working. Possible. Or, maybe followers online are busy sharing their links to madly beg for attention and traffic to their own sites and care little for our coffee-drinking headaching tweep. Most probably.
OK, let’s go further and say that you decided to not leave this tweep an orphan and hit “reply”. Chances are you won’t hear from the person again, or if you do, that will be very brief “Thanks, you too”. Is the other tweep perhaps having coffee to relieve his/her headache. Could be. Is he/she busy arranging his/her work station for the day? Possible. Is he/she simply indifferent to his/her “followers”? Most probably.
Then why follow?
© 2012 Mariya Koleva
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So true Mariya. I just don’t get Twitter and I’m absolutely ok with that. Maybe it’s just not my thing.
Hi, Veronica. I used to like Twitter very much when I first started using it. I had friends there and regularly chatted to them. No longer, anyway. In fact, the first 4-5 sentences in this post are the tweeps I posted in Twitter earlier today. Guess what? No one even noticed me there 🙂 Maybe it’s not my thing anymore either.
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