Twitter is not for me

As an extension to the ideas bouncing around over at the BBS blog, I thought I’d explain why I’m not excited about Twitter at all.

The question at the BBS is: can Twitter be used commercially? People seem to think that the answer is yes, through sponsorship. Twitter is a service that lets people keep a running feed of status updates for anyone that wants to subscribe to your whereabouts.

I’m sure that some enterprising person is going to figure out that any RSS feed with a large readership has commercial value. It’s an audience. So you could carry ads or the feed could be the ad itself.

But twitter doesn’t get me all hot and bothered. Facebook has had a “status” option for ages, and I never use it. Teresa talked about AIM away messages, and I can’t even think of anything good for those. I just don’t think people need to know what I’m up to minute by minute, and even if I did, there’s no way I’d do it consistently.

Maybe I’ll be proved completely wrong, but I just don’t think it’s that interesting.