Fink About It

See, I’ve tried Twitter for a while now. And I still find it terribly annoying. It’s not a tool that works for me, because in 140 characters I cannot say what I want to say. Also it doesn’t help me spreading my content, if people still have to jump through tiny links. Also, I don’t like to click links, when I don’t know where I am ending up – I might even say this is how phishing works.
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Ok, I don’t exactly hate Twitter, even if this post is in the hate category. Anyway, I don’t like Twitter for these 4 reasons:

Twitter is an excuse

People often use Twitter when they don’t have anything to say on their blog. Instead of a real update they post something like “I just got up” or “Today I wear white socks.” And I am like: “What do I care? I want to read some real updates!”

Twitter is watching You !

That is a bit exaggerated of course, but it’s a fact that the internet never forgets. Past week 3 posts of my other blog were lost completely because I didn’t use the right backup *stupid me* . Nevertheless they had already been indexed at Technorati and so I could find my complete articles there. The point is: Today anything can get indexed – your private manners as well as the locations you go, etc. Some twitterers try to make the congress tweet, and forget how important it was to speak in private and from face to face. That, my dear twitterers, is called the real world. Read on