I am sorry but I am buried in Twitter messages. And most of them are not the least bit relevant to me. It borders on abuse—I call it Twitter overload.
Like many people, I signed up for Twitter thinking that there must be a value proposition for me, too. What did I get? I got hundreds of messages from experts like Guy Kawasaki (maybe my favorite marketing guru and blogger). Guy bombards me with short twitter messages about neat URLs and blog sites that I should go read.
To make matters worse, Guy sends his Twitter messages to this Facebook account. Guess what? Guy is in my Facebook network. I get his messages there, too. Enough is enough.
Buried in these short, irrelevant, and too frequent messages, I had no choice but to delete Guy from my Twitter and Facebook networks.
Think before you Twitter. http://twitter.com/johnbjackson
John Bradley Jackson
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The first person I “followed” on Twitter was Guy Kawasaki. The next day I had a ton of messages. Then, I learned that he pays a person(s) to twitter for him – there you have it.
Interesting. I am not alone.
Twitter has its place but turning it into a PR machine seems to erode its potential value for the readers.
Lets not confuse noise with news.
JJ