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Why is Mashable Obsessed with Twitter?
If you’ve read this blog before, you know I’m no fan of Twitter, the over-hyped tin can on a string of the 21st Century. But I’ll admit it’s got its place. Yes, I’ve even got an account. I have a...
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Twitter Fails Once Again, Slavish Devotion Continues
Nice grammar. Previously I’ve written of my hatred for Twitter, including 15 Reasons Twitter Must Die, 1500 More Reasons Twitter Must Die, Twitter Fails Again, Twitter Officially Goes Mainstream, and...
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Hookers Love Twitter
Giving new meaning to the term “Twitter”, a very entrepreneurial little startup has started their own account to promote the services of their “massage providers” and “escorts”....
View ArticleTwitter in 140 Characters
Task: Describe Twitter in exactly 140 characters. Result: Like a “fun-sized” candy, life is made byte-sized, interaction relieved of character. Twitter is to conversation as porn is to making love. OK,...
View ArticleFacebook Makes You Stupid, Twitter Makes You Dead Inside
…or so say researchers, according to this article from The Register: Fresh research from America confirms that online social networks are in fact playthings of the devil. Ohio profs say that use of...
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The Explosive Growth of Twitter
Upon the 8000th time hearing that phrase, I think it’s time to put that into perspective: That’s still a lot of people, no doubt. But it’s still a baby learning to crawl when compared to facebook, or...
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Twitter Flu
Since I slag off Twitter regularly, I’ll let others do the talking today: Swine flu: Twitter’s power to misinform from foreignpolicy.com How False Rumors Can Cost Lives from canonical.org And,...
View ArticleMashable: Off the Deep End
I wrote in January that the popular web news site mashable.com was obsessed with Twitter. Since I wrote that piece, they’ve only gotten crazier, though at least they’ve become a bit more honest about...
View ArticleGet Off My Lawn! (Again)
…or, Another Post About Twitter. This time, courtesy of Mediapost.com’s Will Akerlof, who says it very nicely: Twits: Why Twitter Won’t Change Marketing
View ArticleMashable Hysterical Over Twitter Outage
As you may or may not have noticed, Twitter.com disappeared for about an hour last night. Their DNS records were apparently compromised by someone claiming to be the (previously unheard-of) “Iranian...
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