Twitter is not for private conversations

Twitter_logoI like Twitter, it can be a lot of fun.  Of course, it does get old hearing that "I’m having Wheaties with blueberries" because I just can’t relate to that statement when I’m reading it at 3 in the afternoon.  I do find some interesting and even useful information at times, it’s kind of like finding that nugget of gold by panning at the creek, at least that’s how rare it is since you have to sift through all the noise.  One part of the Twitter conversation that has annoyed me from day one and I’m now finding it even more so now that the world has discovered Twitter is the semi-private conversations that are taking place all the time.  If you follow very many people on Twitter you’re bombarded by the "@" Twitters that are directed to a particular person in response to something that person has Twittered first.  Invariably the other side of their "conversation" is someone you don’t follow on Twitter so you only see one side of the exchange.  This doesn’t sound like much but sometimes it seems all you see on your Twitter page are replies to specific individuals, which in my view goes against what makes Twitter so appealing.  Seeing all those @ replies is like listening to one side of a phone conversation, it means nothing to me and becomes part of the Twitter noise.

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