I have been using Twitter for over 3 months. I notice there is a over-hype with the way people use this website. The users are excited about the power of leading and sharing information with others. It is fun if you are interested to know what your friends, colleagues and mentors do. It is also fun to share useful information with same set of people and/or your followers. I like to know what my friends or colleagues do, even if it is not useful to me. However, I will be not interested to know what my followers do, even if I do not know them personally, it is immaterial to me.

Thousands of followers

I have seen people following thousands of people and also being followed by thousands of people. I'm quite sure it is not useful for either of them, except for the wastage of resource and data storage. For instance, if i am following 100 tweets, first I must have time to view all those tweets everyday. If my only job is to do it, it will be fun. Otherwise, I see it as useless and not feasible to do on a regular basis.

Advertisement campaign

Most of the tweets are targeted towards Advertisement. It is another form to gain the surfers attention. It is hyped and over a period of time, they may find another medium to advertise their product. I have heard success stories on customer support, like Dell, Ford, Baby products. These are all very good at one end, overall I see more spam than genuine tweets while I follow many tweets.

Information Redundancy

This is another issue I face with twitter when I follow numerous people. For instance, I follow less than 20 tweets. With this small tweet network, I got the news about Michael Jackson's Death through 5 tweets (25%). Imagine if I am following 100 tweets. I am sure I would have received this news at least through 25 tweets!

These are the aspects I feel bad about Twitter. There are so many other good things about using Twitter. I will post about them once I use this website for few more weeks.

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