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Coincidence.

Published by Esteban Glas on October 18th, 2007 | This post lacks all category except for: Social Media, Web, Web 2.0

I’m quite certain that neither Peter Kim nor Alexander van Elsas read my post on not getting Twitter (not that they should, just that I don’t think they follow this humble blog). Maybe it’s one of those collective thoughts, but Peter’s post title is very similar to my own (although he tries to make the case for the little bugger instead).

I personally can’t affiliate to Peter’s point. Usage numbers or “affluent, well educated members” won’t get me into using twitter. As a matter of fact one of the things that calls my attention is exactly the fact that so many affluent and well educated people actually use it. The other -masses flow to it- argument has never worked for me.

Alexander, on the other hand makes points I can relate more to.

1. Twitter is emotions. (…) As an example, I got the “Jaiku is taken over by Google” scoop from a number of twitter messages. The initial WOW effect wears off very quickly this way. But the comments, analysis, congratulations, jokes, rants that followed that scoop (actually same thing happened on Jaiku). That was fun!

2. Twitter gives me a very nice picture of what people I haven’t actually met are about. It is amazing how much you can read about someone’s character, believes, hobbies, opinions etc. by simply following a flow of small messages.

So there’s an argument I can understand. I don’t necessarily share, but I get the point of why Alexander likes it. As part of a well balanced post he elaborates on what he does not like about it.

I can follow other people that don’t (or don’t want to) follow me. As a result of this I am reduced to a Groupie instead of a friend. I can listen to all their messages, but I can’t reply, add to them, or choose not to answer them.

There’s one of the sources of my dislike of twitter. I’m not too fond to rejection!!

I like to be able to “compare” both posts in here because they address the same question, one I recently made, in very different ways. The fact that I can relate more to one than to the other is just personal choice.

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