Looking through my Twitter feed this morning, I realized something. Very few people are answering the original question Twitter posed to the world: What are you doing?
Which I can’t say I’m against. It would probably be incredibly boring if everyone was JUST answering that question. I can see my feed now…
Sitting at my desk, doing work.
Just got up to get some water. Now I’m back sitting at my desk again.
EATING LUNCH! …at my desk.
That would be lame. I would have absolutely no interest in updates like that from most of the people I follow, just as most of the people who follow me would have absolutely no interest in updates like that from me. Now, I got in the Twitter game a little late, but it seems like that wasn’t how it always was — the content of people’s tweets started changing when Twitter broke open to the masses circa fall of 2009. Now instead of having 10 followers, all close friends, you have 100 or more broken down something like this: ten close friends, ten acquaintances, and eighty people you probably don’t know very well or at all.
I will give Google Buzz one thing. I like the ability to share updates with just a certain group of people. It’s great Twitter allows me to compartmentalize certain updates coming IN with Lists, but I think there needs to be the option to make updates going OUT private to certain group/s of people. I love all the cool links, pictures and video I find thanks to people tweeting, but I feel like there’s a personal element of Twitter (an element that I think Twitter was originally created to satisfy) that’s either gone or going now that the site has become so integrated with more people and businesses, and I think it can be salvaged with a few small upgrades.
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