A lot of my friends were early adopters on Twitter (one friend is a VC who was involved in their first financing round), so I've watched it grow from a bunch of silicon valley types sharing moderately useful networking tidbits, to the jumble of junk it is now (especially since the media outlets latched on to it as another way to avoid doing their jobs). I made the vow early on that I would only follow people I know IRL, so I'm definitely in the minority. Also in the minority on content production - only reply when someone's actually asking something, and only post when it can be possibly construed as relevant to someone on my list, sometimes a note to self.
It has its uses. For one, my local movie theater sends out their weekly film schedule via Twitter, so I don't have to remember to look it up every week. But, for the most part, it's like being at a cocktail party with 60 people, only 2 of which are actually having an interesting conversation - everyone else is just blurting out short non sequitors to whoever will listen. Those same people who spend all their time complaining about their kids or their health in real live, assuming everyone else cares, will do the same thing on Twitter. But at least you don't have to pretend to pay attention.
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