80% Of Twitter Broadcasters R Narcissists!

http://www.fastcompany.com

Previously, I blogged about Twitter. I said that it's not a micro-blogging tool. Rather, it's a self-broadcasting tool.

There are 2 types of Twitter broadcasters. Organizations and individuals. For organizations, the tweets are of the latest buzz, news, promotions and etc. For individuals, the tweets are about... well, that person.

Now that the hype is gone, I know that I suck at tweeting. My tweets are boring.

I'm much more of a 'twittee'. The recipient of tweets.

I love reading tweets. Armed with a Blackberry (and TweetDeck for my Desktop), I receive latest local and global news via Twitter by following Newsweek, Staronline, KL News and etc. I get the latest score and news on football via Skynews, EPL, Arsenalmania etc. I even get daily dosages of tips on parenting and Blackberry, as well as dirty jokes, daily chillies and many more info via Twitter too.

So, to me, Twitter rocks. In between meetings, I'll be on my phone reading the hundreds of tweets that keeps my on top of the latest buzz. And it's FREE!

Ahh... isn't life sweet with a Blackberry? *free ad for BB hehe*

Anywayyyyy, tho Twitter is good (for me), it has its share of criticism. And its mainly due to unwanted broadcasting from spamming-organizations and boring-uncreative-spamming-individuals.

In fact, an interesting read from Fast Company (the oh-so-cool lifestyle and business magazine), says that 80% of Twitter broadcasters are narcissists, y'know, those 'me! me! me!' kinda people.

I for one, find the article to be very true. I'm saying it coz I think at times, I'm contributing to that 80%. And the regular squint-eye look I get from the missus, followed by a soft murmur that sounds like 'nasisis', probably confirms that.

But as a twittee, the remaining 20% are feeding me with good information. And as long as I lift a leg up from that spamming 80%, I'm vroom-vrooming all the wayyy with Twitter. Rock on!

Link to Fast Company here.

Link to Wikipedia on narcissist here.

Welcome to the Twitter Age (What is Twitter?)

Smthng just happnd to me. My spellng has gone all wrng. Ths is life on earth; post-twitter age. So, the questn now is: xctly wht is TWITTER? Y izt such a rage tht evn Oprah is ridng on da wave?

Truth is. I really dnt knw. Wht I knw is tht I keep lookng up on my bb evytme it tweets. And tht is actually evry few mins of my livng life.

If u ask me wht do I get frm a twttng, I'd say, "less idlng time". Oh, and "bettr utlztn of my rm120/mth unlmted data plan".

Wld my life be any dffrnt w twtr? For now, defntly not. Its jus anthr additn 2 life's sprficial values. But, in the near future; lets jst say, once my kid has grown into a teenager, i'd wnt her on twtr 24x7. & she nds 2 twt on her evry sngle move. W attchd pic. As long s she does tht, i'd forgv her 4 her rpttve errors in spllng.

Some say twtr is micro-blogging. Sm say its anothr way to sms. Sm evn say twtr is just anthr fb sttus updte. I'd say, twtr is "self-brodcstng".

Jst lke a radio sttn, it brdcsts its pgm based on wht the sttn is all abt. & if u missd the brdcst, it wnt b replyed. Twtr is xctly like tht. But its an indvdual brdcst. If u miss a twt, u'd mssd it. Thts it. & 4 evry brdcst, the airtime is just 140letters at any 1 time.

Intrstng bit abt it is tht.. unlike radio sttn, twtr is intrctve. On this note, my dfntn of twtr has grwn to "intractv self-brdcstng". I convrse w my wife & frens on twtr. I got evry update on Wimbldn & EPL on twtr. I even get live-feed frm the local nwspapr on d latst news! N since its a brdcst, evry1 on the same 'freqncy' can 'c' the tweets or feeds. Whch can b annoyng (in a gud way) yet invitng at times.

Y twtr now? Not ystrdy? Well, it wont wrk ystrdy. Coz ystrdy, internet was only for porn. N mobility was just anthr science fction. Today, we've come to an age of 2.4Ghz, blckbrry, MIDs, netbks & free bloggng. Tho moblty is not yet on full swng, those w blckbrry (whch is moblty at its best) will testify tht they can c the bnfts of twtrng.

MID = mobile internet devices, btw.

So twtr, as simple as it seemed, works today. & its destned to b quite a way of life. I see tht it needs some fine-tuning, w spam n stuff, but just like how diamnds like frndstr were cut into a fine jewel like fb, twtr will b going thru a few evolutns until it bcomes part of a human culture. Till then, pls value the fine crft of spellng. Coz itll b gone soon :P