Big Dan's Corner

I first signed up for a twitter account a few months ago, use it for a bit, got bored with Twitter, and discounted it as pretty much useless.  On the urging of a couple of a pals and after seeing a few many write about their success with twitter I decided to give it another whirl. About two weeks later I grew tired of it again and I haven’t been on it in over a month.

Here are my thoughts: Twitter definitely has a place in today’s social web space, I cannot deny that, but exactly where it fits I still don’t know. News travels very fast on Twitter, sometimes faster than traditional news websites this is something that’s always touted as a big plus for Twitter. I don’t quite know why as for me a 5 minute delay in seeing a news story on Twitter vs. CNN  has no effect.

The other positives of Twitter all seem to be touted by marketers who keep banging the same drum that Twitter is great for branding and networking while I don’t disagree it seems awful self serving. In a lot of cases it appears to be a case of follow me so I can send you links to my sites 10 times a day. My last comment on Twitter was “if I don’t have something to sell twitter is useless to me” and that’s what it seems like, if I don’t have links to plug it seems like a waste of time. Perhaps I am following the wrong people who only seem to want to put links in front of my eyes.

Ironically, I’m going to dive back into Twitter with a link to this post and see if I can get involved more and try to see what everyone else sees in Twitter. I’ll be writing follow up posts.