- It's like Facebook with just the status updates and none of the good features.
- The character limit irritates me.
- It doesn't seem to like apostophes. WTF?
- You can't edit tweets once you've posted them.
- I can't see a way to subscribe to a hashtag topic. You can save the search, but it doesn't then show up in your standard list of tweets you're following?
Yeah, I doubt I'll be sticking around on Twitter. As I said last week, there are too many social networking sites already. I won't be keeping up with linkedin, I won't be keeping up with Twitter. Although I have added a Twitter gadget to iGoogle to give it a go- I've subscribed to Weird Al, Stephen Fry, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Fucking Palmer.
And Konnie Bunny's twitter, because that's hilarious.
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Twitter is very basic in terms of functionality, but a lot of the twitter clients do fill in those gaps - you can subscribe to hashtags in Tweetdeck, for example. I think it's interesting how twitter has decided generally not to bother making the bells and whistles themselves, and let other people do it for them. The RT convention and what happened when Twitter introduced their own retweeting feature was a great example - the twitter 'community' had worked out their own way to retweet, and many of the clients had built in their own versions of the function, and then twitter came along and took it up later, to quite a bit of resistance (although now twitter's own retweet feature is widely used).
ReplyDeleteI love Neil Gaiman's twitters - I think he has so many followers now that he only has to mention a website to crash it. I am now a complete Fan Girl, and just finishing The Graveyard Book.
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