Twittering Down The Drain

This is a guest post written by Mike Huang, the original founder of Bloggin-Ads and now a team member of a growing arcade site, Pinky Arcade where you play games and win prizes daily!

Hey fellow readers of Click Consultants.  Some of you may not know me or remember me, but I’m Mike Huang, the original founder of Bloggin-Ads.com.  Some of you may have hated me, some of you may have liked me, but after leaving blogging, I have gone off in learning new things.  However, even leaving the blogosphere, it never stops me from re-visiting my favorite blogs through my feed reader.  I still like to catch up on things once in a while and have also been watching how Twitter is growing even bigger.

Just this past week, there were a few blogs that talked about Twitter, but was it something good about Twitter?  If you have scoured the blogosphere, you would have probably noticed Zac Johnson’s post on how Britney Spears is now a Twitter fan.  Some of you may like that idea that big celebrities like Britney is not Twittering, but fans of Twitter, Mostly Lisa is simply hating the idea that Twitter now is another home of Britney.  Lisa believes that Twitter was just used for geeky thoughts, but what do you think of that?

Twitter, like any other social network, is a social network period.  If you have a blog, then you have probably tried big networks like Stumble Upon or Digg.  They’re just filled with bots, spams, and worthless information that you could probably find better by just searching Google.  Some may disagree with that statement and I won’t doubt that, but what would Twitter be like in the near future?  Twitter already has so many extra tools to optimize the usage of it, but is that 140 character limit really stopping anyone from taking advantage of the system?

Just a few days ago, John wrote a post on how to “Twitter your e-mail newsletter” and that just sickens me that more tools are being used on Twitter’s little character cap.  For example, if one of your Twitter followers and long time blog readers did not subscribe to your newsletter for a reason, what would make you think they would want to see it on Twitter?  To me it just seems like another way to spam, but of course it’s not direct spam.

Twitter is a great social system, yes, but would it just turn into one of those tools that bloggers use to spread all those useless messages and posts around?  It sure is starting to seem like it to me.  I miss the old days of Twitter where you could just see simple tweets of what one of your followers are doing rather than see a “link” in almost every single one of the tweets.

This is a guest post written by Mike Huang, the original founder of Bloggin-Ads and now a team member of a growing arcade site, Pinky Arcade where you play games and win prizes daily!

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