So this service is.. a barrage of text ads ? Gosh golly, what an ingenious strategy.
Tori sent me that link as well and now you’ve gone and said exactly what I was thinking.
I did follow them and I have to admit that when they post a song, I do start singing it in my head, but other than that, it’s just worthless noise. I don’t understand how this “service” even warranted an article in the first place.
i gave a terrible habit of getting songs stuck in my head. the last thing i want to do is intentionally put songs there. i don’t get it.
not gave. HAVE.
fuck, no wonder i get songs stuck in my head. obviously there is plenty of room for them to roll around. sigh.
OK, that service is dumb.
But your take on twitter is a little short sighted I think and takes into account mainly the way YOU and those closest to YOU use Twitter, as opposed to how lots of other people/groups/businesses/etc use it.
I swear I just had this argument with Erin @queenofspain like 5 minutes ago.
I had a play with Twitter and then gave up on it. I just don’t have the time, will, or patience to read all those bloody tweets. it’s ok if someone tweets with something pertinent to say two or three times a day, but a constant stream of messages just overloads me.
I’m not a massive facebook fan either, but the one thing it has over twitter is that its core users are far more likely to be “normal” people than the tech savvy early adopters of twitter.
Not sure all that is entirely relevant to what you were posting about mind you, but never the less it’s my two cents
My problem with Twitter came when they broke the IM feature and then didn’t fix it because it made it more difficult for me to watch Tweets, both at home and on my phone, making it less likely for me to use it.
Creature- Isn’t it? I think they stole it from a monkey.
Brandon- Don’t let me stop you from berating them fully! I found it only worked when I actually knew the song… but it was a huge distraction and not worth anything to me.
Hola hoho Snarf- I have the same issue… but it’s not necessarily something I want there… so why am I volunteering for torture? I can say no to ambient stupidity… and I will.
Miss Britt- Short sighted? I don’t see how… the power of usage is in volume and, especially when I have given them the benefit of the estimates even though in reality the number is probably half that, Twitter does not have the reach everyone seems to think it does. Go to Google, do a search on a phrase or product, and tell me in the first page how many of those results are actual Tweets. Your average person uses Google… not Seesmic.
I am, of course, open to evidence proving otherwise.
Dan- I can understand the Tweet overload. I limit myself to following no more than 150… and sadly even that is way too many. I also agree that Facebook is more attuned to the average person, which is why I think there is greater strength there than on Twitter unless you are focusing on early tech adopters.
ShellI- I never used the IM feature… but really at its base Twitter is about messaging, just in a larger setting than previously… but not as large as other messaging settings.
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
One of the first twitter users I followed was DailyLyrics which, as you guessed, sends one tweet per day with some song’s lyrics. I like it.
No original content. But I still like it.
You say you would not spent your wasted time thinking of imaginary twunes. But you’re missing the niche. The genre. What they do is PROACTIVELY REMIND you to waste your time.
I’m too busy to remember to waste my time! I need reminders!
Perhaps you are taking tweejay a bit too seriously? It may not be for you but I reckon popping a tunes into people heads as they work is a perfectly reasonable use for twitter.
Whall- You of all people should not need a reminder to waste time. You have a Blackberry. Can we say time suck?
Nick- Actually I’m not taking Tweejay seriously at all. I know for sure it isn’t for me, and if an employer is willing to allow their employee to have Twitter open then I can’t see that same employer disallowing an iPod set to shuffle.
It’s about value. What is the true value that TweeJay or Twadio provides???
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
No, no NO!! I’m not doing it. NOT DOING IT.
I will NOT
CANNOT
Twitter with a mouse.
I will NOT
shall not
Twitter in your house.
I will not
Twitter in a tree
I will not Twitter
till you pee
I cannot
Twitter if you cry
I shant not
Twitter till I die.
sorry. CAN’T
CAN’T
CAN’T
Well, at least not yet. Maybe I’ll change my mind later. But for now… technology is not only moving way too fast for me, it’s also annoying the hell out of me.
Wow. You really ARE into this Twitter thing. 
What do they call a woman without an asshole? Divorced.
Twinkie- You’re obviously missing your calling as the Twitter Laureate!
DeniseTN- Not really… it’s just something I looked at closely for 15 minutes or so. What are YOU really into?
“In each of us two natures are at war… the good and the evil. All our lives the fight goes on between them, but one of them must conquer. In our own hands lies the power to choose. What we want most to be we are.” – Dr. Henry Jekyll
That’s the dumbest idea I’ve heard in a while. I don’t need MORE useless shit in my life. I already have enough!
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