What a waste of time, bandwidth, power consumption and cognitive surplus of thousands of people, who read your inane tweets, in the guise of your lifestream?
...and then the spammers who never give up DMing you, until you block them.
Ok. Someone tweeted about an earthquake within a minute of its happening, from California.
Hey! I am an average Joe. What can I do about the Earthquake in a remote place, and why can't I see it in CNN as Breaking News?
Fine. People use it as a tool to organize collective action. Like I said, I am just an average joe. Why do I care about changing the world and other lofty buzzwords?
Wait. If not for a phenomenon called connected consumption, all this would be meaningless chatter and Twitter would be the modern-day equivalent of a Barber Shop. It might be all about idle talk and spam, if not for the connected consumption part.
Ordinary People forage the web for information and Twitter creates a platform to share this curated information in real-time. However, for this curated information, I can endure the idle talk, but I hate the constant pruning activity of my following list to get rid of the spammers and the boring folks.
I am almost tempted to go back to using Facebook. But, how many people can I meaningfully 'friend' and so the scope of the curated stream is very small.
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