Why Misha is, like, totally over Twitter

I don't often post on the blog simply to link to someone else's blog, but I love this post from Misha Cornes of Three Minds explaining why she is ditching Twitter.

I personally agree with Misha's point that "most people are not that interesting". I was saying to a colleague yesterday that one of things I find hardest to get my head around when using Twitter is the way that high-falutin' 2.0 debate is mingled with "I just had a sandwich" or "Wow! anyone love CSI as much as me????"

Two thoughts occur to me, though:

• I wouldn't have known this post existed if not for the fact that Steve Rubel posted it on Twitter. That is just, like, way ironic.
• Twitter has to be one of the most fiercely defended social networking tools around. Post something critical of Twitter, it gets Twittered, and before you know it, dozens of the Twitterati are swooping in on your blog posting impassioned  defence of their community and accusing you of missing the point, you big, fat Luddite.  Which sort of shows the power of Twitter to mobilise people and share data, if nothing else.

Comments

[Dennis Howlett]

They must be a bit like the Mozilla foundation trollerati who come and crap all over any blog post remotely critical of their stuff.

[Sally]

Yes - it would appear Twitter, Mozilla and, er, G4 are sacred to the net community.