I love Twitter. It’s cool. It’s real. It’s real time and it’s a great way to vent, if you don’t care that the whole world sees what you said and can’t take it back. The problem is that I’m being tweeted to death! There’s simply too much information coming in at too rapid of a speed.
Maybe I’m getting old and my synapses are slowing but, in the words or Inigo Montoya, “let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up!” With there’s so much that it’s tough to sum up.
Now, if that ain’t enough, enter big business, looking to capitalize on one o’ them new fangled Internet fads. Companies have started spewing into the tweet-o-sphere and they’re clogging the works too. Then comes the Twitter spammers. They’re like throwing a pack of unwrapped super-bubble into the chain of a bicycle. It’s gonna get ugly.
Enter the good guys like Seismic Desktop and Tweetdeck. They manage to collect, collate and congeal the information into something palatable and manageable to the mind. They’ll help, but when Twitter breaks down and sells the the space, we’ll have to accept tweets from people we don’t know.
So will Twitter survive or render itself useless? I can’t imagine a real time conversation that marketers can track being squandered away, but you never know. Business can be greedy.