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Anyways – Down to business…..
Those of you who are on Twitter (and those of you who aren’t, you can join, and follow me here) may have been aware of the big push in the past week by Ashton Kucher to get himself over one million followers, and to become the most followed person on Twitter.
I have a big issue with this. First and foremost, Twitter is *NOT* a competition!!!! There is no prize for being the most followed person, nor is there any benefit from it.
These people seem to have forgotten what Twitter is all about – the dissemination of information that is relevant and interesting to the individual.
If I follow someone who just spouts rubbish, or more recently, the trend has been towards advertising, I will un-follow them. Purely and simply, if I dont find what someone speaks about interesting or useful, I’ll un-follow them to stop it appearing in my timeline.
Some of you may also be aware that Oprah has also recently joined Twitter. This in itself I have absolutely no problem with – everyone is allowed (and indeed encouraged) to be part of the Twittersphere – but the problem arises when millions of new users who will not themselves ADD content (or Tweet) will follow Oprah for no other reason than to see what she’s up to. Now, I can almost guarantee that if Oprah does continue to regularly use Twitter, it will most likely be an assistant of hers that does the Tweeting, and will more than likely be things like “Just finished taping the latest show about X” and “Latest Oprah magazine on the shelves” thus being advertising for her own brand.
You may not think that this is a bad thing – and for the most part, its not – However, it places an enormous load on the Twitter servers, which most of us are aware, have a hard time coping with the load on them as it is.
I would hate to see all of these ’sheep’ users joining Twitter by the boat-load, causing it to become an even more unstable service than it already is.