Twitter’s growth flatlines
Mashable is reporting the sudden flatline of Twitter’s phenomenal growth.
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Even though I use Twitter, I do so reluctantly. My life and thoughts are not, quite honestly, so exciting nor profound that I need to broadcast every action and thought to my followers. I find Twitter beneficial for following some thought leaders or a general monitoring of the Twitter stream for information.
This Harvard study reports on what I’ve suspected yet lacked the background data: 10% of Twitter users create the vast majority of the content. And when you look at the content created by these uber Tweeters, there is so much crap and self-aggrandizement, many followers drop off out of frustration. In essence, Twitter has become a communication/broadcast medium for a community of followers rather than a conversational medium.
Maybe I’m being too harsh. Part of Twitter’s huge growth may be attributed to a voyeuristic satisfaction of peering into a person’s daily activities via Tweets. Perhaps the majority of followers have realized that in the end, their own lives are more interesting than those they follow.
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