Tweet, tweet

Jul 3, 2009 | Bah! Humbug

I’ve been on Twitter for a couple of weeks now and, frankly, can’t see the attraction, especially since the spam bots appear to reign supreme.  Even worse I’ve started to see stuff coming through other channels – usually invitations to seminars and conferences – which seek to advise me on how to “use Twitter to benefit my business”.  This makes me think that the spamming is going to get worse and any alleged social benefits will attenuate to a singularity before popping out of existence in a puff of hubris.

So I’ve tweeted my last, I think.

The whole social networking thing is a strange area.  My first encounter (unless you include email list servers) would have been with Friends Reunited and then My Space, neither of which do much for me these days, to the extent that they ever did.  Facebook I’m on quite regularly.  What I’m not convinced by is all of the hype for the last two to three years about “Web 2.0” and the collaborative content revolution/social web.  I get the idea of course and can see some uses, but think that on the whole it has been oversold, particularly in a business context.