Poll: Twitter popularity

[Stretch]

Frankly I feel the same way about Facebook popularity. Isn't it just a way to waste huge amounts of time essentially doing nothing?

Oh the irony

 

[semi-pro waster]

Twitter isn't really about the author. That's a big difference between Facebook feeds and Twitter, which is why facebook changed it's feed wording.

Think of it in terms about blogs. I don't read my friends blogs to find out about them, I read it because I'm interested in the work they do or their opinion on a certain subject. I do the same with Twitter. I don't read people's feeds to see what they up to socially, I use it to read their opinions, links and see what cool stuff their working on.

Like I said I find it easy enough to ignore and I can see the utility if approached the way you do but from my limited experience of Twitter it seems that many use it as a form of constant update about their day. You're right, I wouldn't have to follow those people and it might well pass me by but I don't have that much use for the rest of it either at the moment.