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I don’t like Twitter very much.
I use it some times and these mutterings are ‘tweeted’ in case someone has nothing better to do and wants to read one.

The problem I find with it, is not the technology or the idea, but the way in which most people use ‘Twitter’.

I don’t follow many people. I normally follow someone for a while, see what they ‘tweet’ and stop following when it feels like I’ve become an old woman gossiping over the garden fence.

I really have no interest in what someone had for lunch, what they had for dinner or if they are bored at work.

Some times I might follow a link that has an interesting article at the end of it, but I have yet to find a way, if it exists, to filter out the noise and only get the information I want. It might be possible to do, but if it is, it really shouldn’t be so difficult to put in place. That’s why I don’t like it.

When I use any service on the internet I want to see what I want to see, not have to sort through tons of rubbish to find the good bits.

Another thing I’ve noticed about ‘Twitter’ is that you occasionally get the same group of people promoting each other. In some ways that is a good thing, but I often wonder if they are only promoting to each other or if it actually brings any new followers, customers or fans to what they are promoting.

Take for example if a musician or band I’m following promotes their friends music on Bandcamp. I know lots of artists like Bandcamp and want that to be the place they sell their music, but as a consumer, I don’t like Bandcamp, ( I’m not telling you on here the reasons, Bandcamp might read it and change things!) so as soon as I see that in the link I don’t bother.

On the other hand, if instead of promoting each others Bandcamp, Reverbnation or CDBaby pages via ‘Twitter’ they got together and put their collective works on an e-commerce enabled web page or even a simple page with all the music listed and links of to were they can be purchased, they could promote their own music at the same time as promoting their friends.

It would never happen, someone would have to maintain it and musicians are artists not businessmen!