I’ve decided to end my relationship with Twitter. I’m increasing finding it annoying to use so I have deleted my account and here a short list of reasons why..
1. Its full of crap.
Say you decide to follow your favourite IT website on twitter only to find they just have an RSS feed posting on their account. Its not just news websites that do this though its other websites to, TPB for example just posting random links to news links to twitter… I have Google Reader to do that for me!
2. Spam
Its like spam is in fasion… I know they are clamping down on spam accounts but it took them long enough! Also trending topics in a neat idea but you search the term to find people are using it to spam!
spam,spam,spam,spam,spam,spam… No one likes it…
3. No one really uses it properly
It was and still is the “in thing” to be on… Staffordshire Univerity have an account to post downtime alerts for the computer system (Again just an RSS Feed) This is a great idea but I bet less than 2% of people at uni actually are following them to get the notifications.
4. Downtime
Pretty much every week twitter is down for some reason or another… Its just not funny.. Its annoying considering the steps you can take to have a website online 100% of the time..
Anyway, Just a little rant and mostly a post to say that if you find you can’t find me on Twitter.. its because I deleted my account..
I was thinking the same, I haven’t bothered deleting the account but I haven’t logged in in a while. It just seems like a big waste of time, and, like you say, most of it is just RSS feeds. I can get that in google reader with less spam and the actual content of the posts as well.
I was reading the other day that 16-25 year olds (I think) are the smallest group of Twitter users because mostly they can’t see the point and would rather text or just use Facebook.
I think I have to agree. Twitter is abit of a fad. I mentioned the sentance: ‘I’m not going into web design’ and what happens? ‘WebofDesign is now following you on Twitter’ gimme a break…
Aside from that, the annoying amount of posts one Tweeter can make in a day and how people rant and boast (I’m guilty of this too) on Twitter. I feel as if I have to use it. My future profession likes the idea of us networking for promotion on sites like Twitter.