Okay, so I have been on Twitter for approximately three weeks and have managed 200+posts so far; but what is it really all about? When this technical phenomenon(!) was first introduced to me six months ago, I dismissed it as merely Facebook status updates for people who detested Facebook. This I can understand as Facebook consumes your time with meaningless drivel about what people are up to and awful invites to pointless quizzes.
People who know me will now be thinking - "if there is one person who updates his status with more meaningless drivel than anyone else I know; it's Luke"
So what about Twitter? Well, I believe that it is blogging for the lazy - something that two weeks ago, I considered myself to be. Use Twitter to comment on the world without the need to spend endless hours writing blog entries - what could be sweeter? Unfortunately, I think that I am one of the few that believe this, and from what I can gather, it has become a place for people to follow celebrities or aim marketing information at. Since I have been on, I have been followed by numerous marketing firms in the hope that I will return the follow so they can advertise to me.
And the celebrity gazing? It seems that our entire culture is obsessed with celebrity, and Twitter has just become another victim of this. What makes this worse, is it seems that some of the "famous people" using Twitter require this form of attention. I know that this is a generalisation, and won't apply to all, but there does seem to be a base need that is fulfilled by having fan(atic)s showering their enthusiasm for the celebrity via this new medium. Now I get the feeling as I type this that it sounds like I am portraying the fans as neurotic idolatry stalkers, but even the most basic of compliments seems to be sycophantic.
I say; "Let's keep Twitter free from marketing, enjoy the ability to lay down one's thoughts at a moments notice, and ignore the current trend for hero worship, (or just plain nosiness)"
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