Oprah Will Not Kill Twitter April 19th, 2009
Good news, Twitter is safe from becoming the next MySpace of the internet. With the recent joining of Oprah to the service there has been plenty of speculation that perhaps this marks the turning point of the beginning of the end of the service. Oprah will bring in the technology-stunted who will clamor and cover the service with banal (read: normal) discussions, drowning out the fun, quirky, and techy world of Twitter as we know it.
Let’s think about this, who do you follow? People who are interesting. You do not follow people that are not. If you want to fly under the radar, you can protect your updates. You can block annoying users. Twitter has all the tools to build your own select community, safe from annoying me-toos and the like.
Now, if Twitter removes any piece of this puzzle, it is game over. In fact, it should try and go even farther to provide privacy and update controls to its users. But, even if Oprah brings tides and waves of new recruits they will most likely link to each other, and not to us. After all, if they shared interests with us, they would have joined before. Perhaps they can just use the #oprahsheep hashtag to find similar minds.
Not that I am excited about seeing this new wave of users, the opposite really. If Twitter had stayed techy I would have been a happy camper. But, we have what we have, and in this day of Suggested Users and million follower accounts, perhaps there is no avoiding some dilution. Dilution and death are far apart, as much as we want to confuse them.
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April 21st, 2009 at 6:57 am
But who really cares about what happens to Twitter?