Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Twitter needs to go

I feel that Twitter is completely overrated. It's a website that is specifically used for letting people know what you are doing at all times of every day? Come on. Don't we have anything better to do? According to the article, "Has Twitter Peaked" I think that Andrew Lipsmen, an analyst at comScore puts it best when he said, "Maybe twitter was a victim of its own success".
I either hear that people love twitter and have been using it from the beginning, or people like me, who think it's ridiculous and can't stand all the hype about it. It blows my mind at the popularity, honestly. There were 2.6 million visitors at the beginning of January 2009 to 17 million by the end of April. That rise is crazy! Over 17 million people have a twitter to just let people know what they're doing, or what they're thinking.
With celebrities, I can understand, I mean, okay, famous people, it'd be cool to know what they're up to or when new cd's are coming out. Personally, I'd make a Twitter just to follow Taylor Swift, but i'm a borderline stalker so that's different. But my sister? I don't care what she's doing, and probably no one else does either.
I can understand what Mark Logan, a VP of a company out in Kansas said: "I don't know whether Twitter itself has peaked, but my own usage of Twitter is definitely in a slump." Twitter got so big so fast with many people, so it can turn into a frenzy that people don't want to be part of. That's partially my reason for not having one, that's why people are deleting their facebook as well. It's turning into something huge, and some people just don't want to get caught up, so they limit their activity, or they deactivate their account.
Honestly, I can see why everyone loves Twitter, or why everyone has it. But I just think we need to find something better to do with our time.

1 comment:

  1. I agree! I never had a twitter or got into it. I just do not see the point to know what everyone is doing at every second. The celebrity thing I agree, that is probably the only cool thing about it. I guess since it got so big so fast, now people are probably losing interest a little at a time. I do not think I will ever get one -- don't think I will ever be into it!

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