Twitter: a medium for no-lifers
Twitter: A solution for the no-lifers
With the social network ‘Twitter’, you can send text messages called ‘Tweets’ to other users. With these Tweets you can say what you’re up to with a maximum of 140 characters, and you can receive them on the Twitter website (where they will be published on the users page), by IM, SMS, e-mail, or RSS.
As does everyone, I too have my own opinion about Twitter.
I think Twitter is mostly a waste of time. It can be useful to stay connected, and to check out what your friends are up to but you can achieve the same results by just giving them a phone call, or sending them a regular text message. And a lot of the messages sent by Twitter are just not interesting at all! Nobody needs to know when you are going to the supermarket for instance, or going to the store to pick something up. Of course, some people might be interested, but for a big part of the time it is just a waste of time.
And why do you need to have everything on your user page? Every time you send a Tweet it gets displayed on your page – is this really that interesting?
In 2007, there was also a security flaw with Twitter. If people knew the phone number connected to an account, they could send messages if it were sent by the user itself.
And in 2009, accounts were hacked as well to send offensive messages such as sexually explicit ones.
So – security flaws, pointless babble, and profile pages full with uninteresting messages: I think Twitter is for the no-lifers.
