Is Twitter a time sink?
Used one way, Twitter is a useful medium for providing short bursts of information to a wide audience. But it looks to me like a lot of time is wasted on Twitter as well. There have been a quite a few reports of the inanity of much of the content on Twitter.
Two recent posts at TechCrunch highlight the phenomenon. First, Michael Arrington wondered about all the time wasted at social sites in general when he wrote, Do Any Of You People Actually Work? Then there came a report by Robin Wauters, This Is Getting Ridiculous: Cat Amasses Half A Million Twitter Followers In 3 Months. Wauters writes that this huge audience of followers spends its time reading such as is described in the following:
Tweeting eye-opening messages such as “and so I slept and then I walked around and then I slept again and then I saw a cobweb and OH FINE YES IT IS A SLOW NEWS DAY” in addition to “HOORAY THE ATTIC IS OPEN awesome view from attic window PLUS I PROVIDE CREEPY CAT SHADOW IN TOP WINDOW wooooooooooo look out socks above”, the cat has gone from a couple hundred to half a million followers in about 3 months…
What do you think? Is Twitter more of a time waster than a useful medium of communication?
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