[LINK] Pointless twitter, search engine wars and why didn't yahoo take off in Oz?

[Karl Auer]

On Wed, 2009-08-19 at 13:56 +1000, Stilgherrian wrote:
> P.S. I don't usually pimp my Crikey articles or blog posts here.

Yes you do! Regularly :-)

> Should I? Or is that too tacky?

In response to an existing thread is fine. IMHO.

I went off and read your articles, some others, and lots of responses.
It took me some distance away from the original theme, but on my journey
I was struck by how defensive many Twitter users are. Dare to say that
you don't use it, or point out some negative aspect of it[1], and the
Twitter world lands on the back of your neck screeching loudly about
phatic communications and who knows what all else.

Here's a news flash: Twitter is NOT for everybody. Sitting in the pub is
great for a lot of people too, but for others it's a smelly, noisy,
high-noise/low-content way to socialise, so they don't do it.

One person's trash is another person's treasure. I may be puzzled that
anyone can possibly get anything out of Twitter, much as I am puzzled
that anyone can possibly enjoy eating kidneys, but I don't regard
someone as defective if they do.

So I resent people telling me that because I don't use Twitter[2] I am
in some way defective, or that I "don't understand".

Yes, actually I *do* understand. IMNSHO Twitter is a pointless, noisy,
annoying, timewasting piece of crap that the world would be far better
off without. But - just like kidneys - it's tasty and nutritious to
many, and I don't begrudge them their enjoyment of it.

Regards, K.

[1] Not talking about that ridiculous "study" here, that deserved all it
got. Wonder what the reaction would have been, though, had she couched
her results as "well over half of all tweets are useful!!!"

[2] Or Facebook, or MySpace, or...

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