The Uselessness of Twitter

I could sit here and write a little blurb on how useless Twitter is, but my point would be better made by the fact that 90% of you would think, "Oh, yeah. I signed up for that once. Oh well."

The problem is that you signed up for it to stay in touch with your friends, i.e, a basic way to send out a mass text message saying "Meet me here for coffee!" That's all well and good, until it became social marketing instead of social networking. Now, your entire stream can be a single person posting 20 tweets in a row - would you really stand in front of that person listening to all that if you were having a face-to-face conversation?

The best part of it, though, is that when the geeks who created this project started, they never expected it, so they were as well prepared for it as FEMA in NOLA. First, they didn't have enough server space to handle the amount of traffic, now, they completely lack the man power to not just stop spammers, but also to properly update your account to block them.

Yet, there are those who consider it a glorious use of technology. Give me an example of an instance where a company is given that much importance, does a piss poor job, and still receives praise. Bah, Bah, Bah. Moo, Moo, Moo.