why do people twitter? this question arises in me probably because i don’t get anything to twitter most of the times. i normally do it just the for sake of doing it, or because of the fact that most of the geeks do it. most of the times people twitter about some things which are so irrelevant, not useful and that sometimes is irritating. for instance if you write a crappy blog post (almost like this one) nobody is forced to read it, somebody who might want to read might read it. But when you twitter something useless you almost force the guys following you to read that useless one liner you just tweeted.

Some cases that do seem valid to me.

- i understand when some celebrities have a twitter account. it makes sense since they’ll be roaming around the world and they’ll be doing variety of stuff in their life which would be very interesting to the fans who follow him

- when news sites like cnn have a twitter its helpful since that helps you to get the news updates in a very short and quick manner

- that you got swine flu. would make a lot of sense so that people can stay away from you!

Some tweets i find weird and useless

- tweeint/RTing some links. why can’t they use some bookmarking sites or someting else to share these links. why bombard those links to all his followers who might not be interested to see it.

- tweeting very obvious/boring things like “went to office” . does it help somebody who search for “office” to realize that a person named you is going to office daily and is having no work to do and sends boring tweets??

- and most of the people twitter just to show off. for eg. “i’m waiting at the airport”, “i had pizzas for lunch”, “oh there’s a scratch on my new ipod” , “is working on some <jargon-here>!” , and some other tweets which only maybe intellects like Einstein can understand.

i wonder what Einstein would’ve tweeted if he was alive – “yay!, i figured out that E=MC^2″, that would’ve been a lot of information.

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