Why I personally dislike the Twitter model (and still use it)?
It just hit me why I like Twitter just so little: it’s because of the instant communication not being all that important to me. Let me detail on this.
Let’s take news: I read the news once a day, in the evening.
Let’s take articles: I read the blogs I follow through RSS feeds once a week when I’m not all that busy and less than once a month when I’m very busy.
Let’s take physical newspapers: I am the only person I know that can read newspapers from 2005 and see this as a perfectly natural thing. Magazines that are old? This is obvious, but I also read old newspapers.
Now let’s get back to Twitter.
An astronaut gets into space. We have two options:
a. I can read his Twitter to find out updates sent from space as-they-happen in less than 140 characters messages (CNN on this story);
b. I can wait until he gets back to Earth, and until he writes an article or a book on his experience; This can be detailed, with emphasis on analysis, rather than on-the-spot events.
If you think I prefer a., you are wrong. I’d much rather see an analysis in detail, even if it’s 3 months old, rather than some obscure as-it-happens list of events.
By the way, I also read my friends’ Twitter updates only once a week, so no news in here either.
I consider analysis to be with a lot of quality content, while “news” from Twitter has little relevance to me.
So – it’s not Twitter, it’s me.
I still like Twitter because it’s a great place to find out great resources, and if I wish to find out what’s buzzing the world, the Hot Trends thing is great.
How are your thoughts on this?
