Bloated Twitter Follows
Posted by Kyle Weems on May 15, 2008How does someone following 2,000+ people on Twitter ever see a large enough percentage of any one person’s tweets for the information to be relevant or comprehensible? Even if you have the patience to dig through all of the past tweets you’ve missed since you last checked, the signal to noise ratio must be horrible.
Is there some sort of horrible “I’m following the most people” stalker contest I don’t know about?
This makes me wonder, at what number of follows does Twitter move from a relatively containable “keeping track of friends/colleagues/big shots” experience to a “glancing into people’s windows at night while driving at 60mph” event? I think I understand the voyeuristic draw involved, but getting a different sentence from thirty different people in less than a minute is something like trying to read falling scraps of paper in the aftermath of a library explosion. Any meaning derived from stitching them together is self delusion at best.
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