I get that Twitter is supposed to be this big social media tool. It’s a great place to promote yourself, your business and spread news. But why does every post have to have a meaning? People have begun to lose track of the basic purpose of the site: to answer the question “What are you doing?” If all Twitter is is a self-promotional tool, then why would the average person want to use it anymore? If you lose the conversational aspect that Twitter has, you lose the audience.
There are books about Twitter and even guides on Twitter manners. Why does it have to be so complicated? I remember joining Twitter when it was still building momentum. The trending topics were actually meaningful and interesting. Granted, the site was down half the time, failwhales were a lot more common and barely anyone I knew had one, but it just seemed more free and organic then. Now before I tweet I feel like I have to pre-analyze my content; make sure it’s worthy of being posted. And while this may be a good thing (because who really wants to know if I’m walking to class or going to lunch?), I’m still a little melancholy to see pointless tweets be shunned when it’s those pointless tweets that built the site to be as large as it is today (that and Kutcher).
And honestly, give it a year or two before some new site makes tweets seem as obsolete as cave drawings.
… Just reread that and realized that in me telling people to stop analyzing Twitter, I completely overanalyzed Twitter. I think it’s bedtime now.
Wow, you’re so pretentious in this post. You’re like, “I had Twitter before everyone else, and it was more organic this, more real, more profound.” I really like this font, homie.