Not me, I love Twitter.

If you use Twitter I am sure you have seen, or heard, this at some point in time. I think I know why people say this.

Twitter, on the surface, appears to be extreme arrogance. If you look at the question on the site you see:


Admittedly this is better than the old, “What are you doing right now?” but still does not fully describe what Twitter is to those of us that use it and love it.
The reason I called Twitter extreme arrogance is because it makes it appear that we think others will care about the mundane minutiae of our lives. When someone first comes to Twitter they think they should post crap like, “Going to store to buy bread,” because they think that is what Twitter is all about.

It isn’t.

At least not for me.

I know there is talk all over the internet about using Twitter to market this and market that. About how it can make or break a movie or a new product because it is world wide word of mouth, but it isn’t even that to me either. Sure, if something news worthy is happening I’ll turn to Twitter to find out what is going on, but beyond that I don’t care about the stupid marketing crap.

I hate most of the celebrities and refuse to follow them, too.

The types of updates that I see people post on Twitter tend to fall more into the, “What’s On Your Mind Right Now?” variety. This is the exact some thing we do with our friends, or at least I do when I’m with them, but Twitter seems to follow more of a shotgun effect. Most people leave their filter behind. This is both good and bad, of course, but it is easy to learn to read the tweets you want and leave the rest behind.

When I look at Twitter, I see a community. A place to be able to interact with like minded individuals, and some not so like minded.

The people who I follow, who follow me back, and who I interact with on a regular basis (you know who you are) are people I am proud to call my friends, even though we only know each other through text on a screen. The reason for this is because they share the stuff that is on their mind and you can actually get to know them as a real person.