Someone suggested to me that joining twitter is good for business.  So I did…

It’s completely insane! You ‘follow’ people, they ‘follow’ you. People ‘tweet’ stupid stuff about themselves:

‘I have a headache’, ‘I’m on the bus’, ‘I hate the rain’,  ‘I’m eating a kebab’,  ‘I love my new coffee machine’, ‘nn now’

So how is this good for business?  You log on to see what’s happening and get snippets of  conversations between people – why don’t they just text or phone each other? Occasionally someone sensible will post some industry news and get a bit of a conversation going but if you don’t check in for a few days or even hours, everything has moved on again – usually back to inane bits of rubbish.

Tweetie, twitterfeed, tweetdeck, twitter tools, splitweet – are some of the tools used to spam twitter.  People set up multiple accounts and control them using these tools.

The bizarre thing is that Twitter doesn’t even appear to have a business model.  It’s like as if it was developed with no end goal in mind. Perhaps they will start with advertising or a small registration fee when enough of the world is already committed.  Rumour has it they will soon begin a subscription model for business -  that at least would make sense – and leave all the twits twittering on the free version.

Now there’s a coincidence, Grandad wrote about twitter today too…

Here’s more – Today’s news alert from Siliconrepublic.com – Fake Dalai Lama removed from Twitter -

Irish twits according to irishblogs.ie..

We should have our own one – call it ‘eejits’ – it could be in two languages – Gaeilge agus Bearla! What does anyone think? Who wants to build it?