Why I Stopped Using Twitter - Publishing 2.0
See I repulsed at the idea of Twitter and never even *joined* because of this. I found Facebook annoying enough, I quite there because it was annoying me (and I had severe reservations about Facebooks MO). Not being able to control the crap that bombards you every day annoys me intensely, lets be honest with media, the web and work you get bombarded with too much as it is.
I haven’t investigated Pownce to any great extent although I do have an account there, problem is non of my friends do. I don’t really know if it is an answer or not.
I think the issue here is that we are trying to re-invent the wheel. If I want a group chat I use an IRC channel, that way I can see what everyone is saying. Yeh I know IRC has drawbacks, but there are other services where people can sit and idly chat in public without the ‘half-conversation’ syndrome. If I want a private chat I use a Dialog in IRC, or an Instant Message client of one type or another. Twitter is dysfunctional because you can’t control it very well and it’s not giving you everything you want to see anyway. It’s a nice idea, and if you stick to making general statements on it then you are on a winner, but as soon as you have a conversation, which people naturally do, it breaks.
I found the same thing was the case with the ‘Wall’ feature in Face book. ‘Wall-to-Wall’ conversations don’t show up both sides on one persons Wall in Facebook so you read one friends wall and it’s all disjointed comments from other people.
I agree with Scott. Blogging is currently the best way to get a voice out there. If you converse with someone in the comments on a Blog everyone can see. Plus you control when and what appears.
