To the tune of Strutter by KISS.
I know a thing or two about it
I know it's only for the brief
It lets you send texts to the masses
As long as you can speak in tweets
Everybody says its looking good
But I know they've misunderstood
Twitter
It claims to be web 2 point zero
But I know its just web point one
You send a text and it says maybe, Nero
Then the next one causes Rome to burn
Everybody says its looking good
But I know they've misunderstood
Twitter
I know a thing or two about it
I know that it's not for the wise
Spend your whole life speaking sound-bites
Like celebrities high as a kite
Everybody says its looking good
But I know they've misunderstood
Twitter
Twitter
Twitter
So the doctor is faceless, spaceless, and twitterless?
At least until such time as web two dot o(h no!) can take one step forward without taking two steps back ...
The ability to send messages over the network has existed since 1971 ... and Mail has existed since 1972 ... thus, the technology to send messages to multiple individuals has existed for 36 years ... and most Unix implementations have not only been more stable than Twitter for the vast majority of this time, but they didn't have a ridiculous 140-byte limit ...
If I was a conspiracy theorist, I'd be questioning whether this was all being engineered by Mr. Gates to prove that "640K ought to be more than enough for everybody" ...
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9946664-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
" These recurring problems once again demonstrate that the much loved Web 2.0, consisting of many startups lacking adequate infrastructure and stable code, is unreliable ... "
Charles: Very funny!
Michael: See, you're an old curmudgeon, married with children. If you were single and 21, you'd be all over Facebook and twittering with all your friends. That's the demographic the advertisers want to reach -- hence, that's where the money is investing.
http://www.news.com/8301-13953_3-9946737-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
"As the generation that has grown up texting rather than e-mailing takes over the planet, Twitter and its ilk will go mainstream."
NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I guess all I can say is:
Twitter - that which is done by a twit
Twit - an insignificant or bothersome person
... and wait for the wrath that is sure to come my way for saying so. ;-)
As far as I'm concerned, Twitter is nothing more than a bunch of twits trying to be witty in comments of 140 characters or less, and comments are NOT conversations, as Loren Feldman of 1938 Media so astutely notes:
http://www.1938media.com/comments-are-not-conversations/
Take the patient off of life support! (It's cruel to prolong such suffering.)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-9979911-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
I don't think even the Google engineers could build a system that could maintain such ridiculous levels of spewage and not collapse under its own weight!
http://twitter.scripting.com/spewage.html
From Don Reisinger @ CNet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13506_3-9981717-17.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
It may be difficult to believe such a popular site could be worth nothing in a year, but the way I see it, it's certainly more likely than Twitter being worth $1 billion in that time.
As far as the doctor's concerned, it's worth nothing today! It goes down on a daily basis, restricts "twitters" to 140 bytes or less, and is bursting beyond capacity with self-indulgent twits who think they can be witty 24-hours a day! It's very existence is annoying!
Check out this "Over the Hedge" strip:
http://www.comics.com/comics/hedge/index.html
I strongly urge you to check out the 32nd comment from TravisV in response to Don Reisinger's TechCrunch post on Why Twitter needs to do more, found here:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/09/26/why-twitter-needs-to-do-more/
" ... my ultimate view on Twitter remains exactly the same as my initial reaction. A social platform that facilitates the publishing and sharing of the world’s most inane babbling - at a time when most of us still have a high percentage of co-workers who can’t even manage their email inbox ... "
I couldn't have said it better myself!
The Trouble With Twitters
Twitter Whore
Is this why you won't abandon Twitter?
Do you fear the Revenge of the Twitter Icons?
Don Reisinger's Ten Issues With Twitter:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10283888-2.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
the doctor's 10 issues with twitter:
1) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
2) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
3) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
4) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
5) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
6) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
7) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
8) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
9) he doesn't want to be a twit ...
10) he doesn't want to be a twit ... ;-)
Miley Cyrus Quits Twitter.
'Nuff said.