I've Had Enough

All right. I thought I could handle it. I thought that the pros outweighed the cons. But finally I have to say FUCK IT!!!!

Twitter blows. Just a little.

First of all, people, Twitter is supposed to be used in moderation. I had to turn my phone off for an hour today because it was on the verge of dying and kept chirping at me. When I turned it back on, I had fifteen tweets! All but two were from....the same person. All contained some semblance of "Hm. I'm feeling THIS way at the moment". C'mon now. Every thought that passes through your head needs to be mini-blogged?? I know, the easy answer is "Turn off phone updates from people that annoy you!" My easy response? "I'm too lazy, so I'm going to sit here and passive-aggressively blog about it".

Second, over half the tweets I receive contain links to other websites or online photos. I'm poor. My phone doesn't even have a camera much less the ability to follow links. So I can look longingly at your tiny URLs all I want...but I'm never going to know what it was you wanted so badly for the world en masse to see. And no, I'm not spending $150 a month to check them out.

Sometimes, everyone decides to Twitter all at once. OR, two people start a conversation and all you get is their "@" back-and-forths for an hour. This is when the phone updates get REALLY annoying. I could turn the phone updates off altogether, but then what would be the point of even being on Twitter? No one wants to look at a website to see that Lisa was running late three days ago. I get to my computer probably twice a day if I'm very very lucky, and that's generally only for 15 minutes at a time. I'm not going to spend those precious moments of wireless bliss looking through everyone's old-news tweets.

Twitter's got a real dilemna. The whole POINT is so that you can see updates in real-time....i.e., text messages. But what happens when the updates get too annoying/overwhelming? The site loses its whole appeal.

Also, their propaganda how-to video really bothers me. Thanks, Nabisco's Hideway, for giving me additional ammunition.