Hey, we have a nice community of ClutchFans, Rowdies, and Rockets/Houston Fans in general on there that make it a LOT of fun for me while I'm living out of state. Plus it really enhances big live events if you're following people you genuinely enjoy. Like anything else, it's a tool. How you use it determines if it's awesome or not. (Man, I can't even imagine going through trade deadlines/drafts without a Twitter/Hootsuite multi-stream combo to keep me caught up anymore). Despite a lot of funny/sarcastic moments, overall Arian tended to take it too seriously if you ask me. I'd read his tweets a lot of the time and wonder why the hell he was even on there.
The concept itself is great, I just have no idea why it compels grown men to type as if they're 15-year old high school girls.
I think it just has to do with the character limit and what you can do with it. I love the wealth of information on twitter but absolutely hate trying to tweet anything worthwhile with the character limit. They really should do away with the "limit" per se and have a "show more" button for tweets longer than 140 characters. I know there are a lot of 3rd party apps out there that let you create longer tweets but going to a separate site to read a tweet kind of defeats the purpose.
Twitter character limit number divided by 10, thats the age range of its content. 140 chars / 10 = 14 year old talk. And so on. I know at first it corresponded with sms text character limits, but its past that now. I like simplisticity. But having a product that CAPS itself where you can't go much beyond half-thought musings of junior high kids even if you try? Its just asking for too much dumbification of people. Just easier for me to see it as a niche instead of the way, so it doesnt boil my blood too much.
That's a crock of **** talk. I was on twitter following tech media heads like Leo Leporte and Kevin Rose YEARS before the drivel of hip hop socialites and Pre-teens showed up. It's still a great tool for subscribing to news outlets without spending 5 + minutes on an RSS reader. That was Twitter's intention and still is. YOU SUBSCRIBE TO WHAT YOU WANT! You choose the content you se based on who you follow. It's a mini blog medium and it was never advertised as more than that. The tech community had it before so to say it was built for idiots means you follow a lot of idiots by choice.
It's called editing yourself. It's quick and to the point, weeds out a lot of BS. Nobody wants to hear somebody ramble on and on and on and on. And if its that important that you need to write a novel on twitter, just send out another tweet. Sometimes I wish there was a 140 character limit with some of the people I talk to in person. Im like my god...SHUT UP ALREADY lol
