It seems as though far less people are actually using and contributing to the site than Twitter’s recent hype and massive growth suggests. In fact, the data shows that a large percentage of Twitter users have not “tweeted” since the first day they joined the service and at least a quarter of its users don’t have any followers at all.
…”It’s clear that celebrities like Oprah and Ashton Kutcher have made Twitter the “flavor of the month”, but there are many people out there who will never quite get it”I use Twitter as mostly a feed reader. Started with RSS many times, but it’s just not as clean and given to easy overview as Twitter is.
RSS is a clumsy, stressful and inelegant implementation of feeds, no matter what RSS reader, and it will never go mainstream like Twitter has or like Facebook’s new feeds have.
I think a lot of you bloggers, including TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfield today, naturally use Twitter differently. You have the freedom of time, the tech knowhow, and a built up audience to tweet to about news and relevant analysis.
But not all people have the time or talent to come up with something to express in 140 characters or less that we want to publish publically. Does that make us sheep, like Schonfield claims? Don’t make me laugh.
Spending a lot of time on twitter, broadcasting your thoughts there - Sure, if you have…
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