Twitter is something that not all that many have thought  it was cracked up to be, but then…

Well the problem with twitter to most people is also it’s strong suite, that is it’s simplicity.  Well we all know that people in this techo-enhanced gadget loving age are not really looking for “simple” they are looking for “cool.”  So when a new person sees twitter for the first time, most every persons response is the same, “So This Is What Everybody Is Talking About?”  and there is the problem with twitter, it is nothing better than email, chat, instant messaging or even a simple online forum.

Twitter is nothing special, it does nothing new and really doesn’t make it any easier to communicate with anybody, because now you also have to go get another account to stay in touch with your same old friends.  It seems confusing to most and myself included.

The fact that you have to use 3rd party websites and applications to make it usable in the normal since.  If you want to share a photo, video or more than 140 characters, you off to anther site just to make this possible.

So the real question is what makes people want to download applications, get accounts at a bunch of sites and use many different websites to get the same effect as sending an email?  Well, I have no idea!

I suppose that the huge Buzz built around twitter has a lot to do with it.  For celebrities and other busy folks, the fact that you can automate its updates using RSS Feeds, so in essence you never even have to go to the site to “look” like you use it, may be appealing to some.

I love to see whats new on twitter once an a while, but I very rarily go directly to the website twitter.com I use other services that offer better search capability and don’t crash all the time due to over usage like twitter does.

The point of my rant here is this, twitter does nothing special, twitter as a website is not stable and its servers are down constantly, twitter is only usable if you use other websites to access it and again why not just post your info on any forum on the web?  I think that by any standards you choose to use, twitter is a failure as a web service among other things.

The only saving grace is that they used there best judgement to allow others to build on there code and make it usable to the common person my making their programming api’s available to the public.  But at the same time, if you need others to use your code to make your site worth using, why does twitter not take on the good ideas that others have created?

Well that’s enough smack talking for now, just frustrated that the fastest growing website on the planet is so bla!

Later on guys!

Nick Simpson – My Twitter Tactics Admin