Twitter this. Tweet that. And every day, hoards of new applications plugging into the micro-messaging service.
Twitter, clearly, is the next big thing in social networking. Like any growing trend, it attracts lots of buzz, and extensive coverage on sites like Mashable (see our Twitter archive for hundreds of examples). And yet, do we detect an imminent backlash?
Do comments like those above, pulled from social news site Digg (and numerous other complaints we see in our comments) suggest that bloggers have let our Twitter infatuation spiral out of control?
If not, why do you think Twitter has been able to garner such a massive amount of coverage? And if so, which topics would you rather see bloggers focusing their energies on?
In short: should tech blogs, including this one, shut up about Twitter?
I have to say I disagree with the majority here. Twitter has its place in community building and is expending all the time. Now, I'm not a Twitterholic, but I do find it useful when I need it.
Tough Crowd... How was it when we went from telegraph to telephone? Ant new tech will get buzz untill over saturation happens. I think we have a ways to go. Only us, the early adapters are annoyed right now...
The Internet is very democratic in that nobody is compelled to read anything, from anyone, on any topic. Don't care about twitter, don't read about it. Just move on. If there were any topic that I would like to see an end to, it would be Microsoft, that is unless it's their announcement that they are going open source.
Tweeting for many; replaces time that should have spent at a real job. A panacea for those like me who have been dis-enfranchised and the "New World Economy" has become the millstone dragging me-us down.
It's an interesting way to pass time, but not productively. Like a Circus for the glued to the PC crowd. I am using my connections to see if there is anything to leverage into that real paying job. Nothing else pleases my hunger for the time being.
