One can only get so much twitter news. its not too hard to figure out how to increase followers or do this or that. Its a 140 characters for crying out loud
Wyatt Peak
· 11 months ago
I think more would be overdoing it, but Twitter is a growing platform, and one of the most significant around today; it makes sense to report on any significant developments.
I think the root of the trouble here is that Twitter apps are so easy to build that they drown out other startups, which can take months.
Enrique Gutierrez
· 11 months ago
MUCH less. Twitter's a great site, that's awesome, we get that. But there are more Twitter applications out there than you can shake a stick at. Most of them come & go w/o ever catching on, some of them are useful, none of them have a profit model... well none of the ones worth giving a crap about, and to be honest, who cares? It's all the same thing.
Some team of people or single tweeter came up with a neat integration for the Twitter API... AWESOME! it happens 3 times a day.
The only news worthy thing Twitter has coming? Is when they find out how to make money & what that profit model is.
Colorburned
· 11 months ago
Personally, I love Twitter! Report on it as much as you like. Those guys are probably just jealous because they have less than 100 followers.
Yeah, I just scroll right past any articles about Twitter. Yeah, it's cool, but this isn't the NYT where you have to inform 50 somethings about this weird internet thing that the 20 and 30 somethings are into called "twitter".
If we're reading mashable, we probably know about Twitter developments because half the tech blogs talk about it too.
How about a weekly twitter roundup if you must write about it?
Jason Gooljar
· 11 months ago
So how about that Twitter? I hear it's the new thing. I think you all should cover it more :)
Jason Gooljar
· 11 months ago
Did I mention how great Twitter is.... :)
GolfGirl
· 11 months ago
If tech bloggers are interested in the masses they should continue to cover Twitter as it breaks it's way into the mainstream.
If they're only interested in other tech bloggers they should concentrate on something more esoteric and futuristic.
JustinSMV
· 11 months ago
Twitter is the latest craze and to ignore writing articles about the latest craze is like saying that news reporters should stop reporting on Obama because there is too much news about him already. There is never enough until the hype dies down and until then Tech sites if they are smart should continue to write about the latest hypes at the moment and right now that is Twitter.
Meezy
· 11 months ago
If it's hot news, it's hot news.
todd
· 11 months ago
Don't listen to the whiners, if there is something to cover, cover it. They can always skip over posts they don't want to read
Daniel M. Clark
· 11 months ago
You've got the question wrong. It's not about covering Twitter more or less, it's about defining what "news" is. Come up with a definition of "news" and you'll have your answer to the frequency-of-covering-Twitter question.
Here's your starting off point: do you cover every single Facebook application that's released? Are they all "news"? If not, why not? Now, apply that reasoning to the hundreds of Twitter apps being released right now.
If there is genuine news, you should be covering it, not burying it. If something isn't genuine news, you shouldn't bother with it unless you're having a real slow news day.
Technology Geek
· 11 months ago
n/o to the readers, but they should just skip the Twitter content when they don't like it...
I like reading Twitter content and most of the information posted here is of great value.
Keep up the posting!
Alex MacGregor
· 11 months ago
If there's Twitter related news that might be of interest to people, why not?
Jkershner
· 11 months ago
People just to say the word twitter.
Phoebe
· 11 months ago
I echo what @colorburned sez; they're just jealous. I think it's gr8 Twitter continues to catch fire. Bring it! U can follow me at @bizlady08
Lilly
· 11 months ago
YES PLEASE. Make it stop.
I skip over any posts about Twitter-related apps.
Matt
· 11 months ago
This is a blog about web 2.0 stuff, it only makes sense to have stuff about Twitter, although I admit there is a lot - and it would be nice to see more stuff about Facebook etc.
NaughtyReviews
· 11 months ago
I think you guys have been overdoing it lately - it wouldn't be so bad if you just mixed the twitter news in with some other social media news...Is there really nothing else going on other than twitter?
Mark Drapeau
· 11 months ago
As someone on Twitter (OMFG I'm @cheeky_geeky!!) and who's written for Mashable about Twitter, I think that it is simply the platform of the moment, far from being trendy though, many things from new biz to PR and marketing to disaster relief to a revamping of journalism is happening there. Many of the articles on Mashable are not 'simply' about 'the new Twitter app' though those also sometimes have a place.
Anali
· 11 months ago
I'm loving twitter almost as much as coffee. Guess how I found this post?
I'll say this. I was someone who picked on people for using twitter for months blindly without ever using it. Now that I've been using it /jimmyrey . I find it to be extremely useful and have closed business and made new networking contacts.
Keep reporting on it!!!
rommy
· 11 months ago
I recently deleted my twitter account.
I found it was become saturated with crap, it lacked relevance, and there were better options in the realm, focused more on location (BrightKite) and sharing relevant content - media and otherwise (Facebook feed, Tumblr).
Ivan
· 11 months ago
I only read one foreigh blog(i'm from ukraine) - it is mashable :) But it is much more attention to twitter that it deserve, I think last time it took 30% attention of mushable writers.
There are much startups on internet that are need your attention, they are working hard to be there and here. Just another twitter app - WOW that is cool - not for me, i'm reader, I want to know all news, but including not only all about twitter. But twitter is cool :)
Nicole Simon
· 11 months ago
If I want twitter news, I subscribe to twitter relevant sites. Is it something mashable should cover? Absolutly, but probably a) balanced with other stuff going on and b) in a way as they have done in the past: as thought leader with well researched articles rather than noting all the newest twitter apps. hint: you dont report about most facebook apps either, and my guess it, that would intererst a bigger crowd.
but please continue especially the summary and overview articles on twitter, they make my live much easier. ;)
Daniel M. Clark
· 11 months ago
"I found it was become saturated with crap, it lacked relevance..."
That says more about the people you chose to follow than the service itself. The people I pay attention to on Twitter are friends and collegues that provide me with interesting information and conversation. If you were inundated with crap and irrelevance, you were following the wrong people.
Twitter is a tool, nothing more. It is what you make of it.
David Rich
· 11 months ago
For those who live in a social networking world, Twitter and Web 2.0 is redundant news. The fact remains Twitter attracts hundreds of new users a day, some of which are in markets that are not utilizing social media to the extent they should. Simply because social media firms and networks are aware of the ins and outs of using tools such as Twitter, doesn't mean all marketing firms, brands, and industries are using social networking to market. @rommy Twitter can be extremely useful way of bringing the news to you versus you seeking it out. A user just needs to customize their account to only receive relevant updates from people in their respective industry. You can't "follow" every Joe on Twitter - you will get a ton of crap. But if you are selective and follow those like Pete Cashmere, who share the same interests, Twitter can be extremely useful. Great way to not only see what consumers are saying about your brand or industry, but also see what is said about the competition. Free research and insight, if used productively.
SD
· 11 months ago
Hi, I would like to see Mashable have an option to create custom RSS feeds.
I'd like to filter out certain subjects (like Twitter) but also certain authors (no offense to those authors, it's just that some authors cover my interests better than others).
Richard
· 11 months ago
Less Twitter please! Much, much less. I really don't see what all the fuss is about. It seems to appeal to the egocentric "everyone must be interested in what I'm doing" mentality.
Anderson
· 11 months ago
Mashable is not a tech blog. Neither is any blog that writes about Twitter apps.
reg4c
· 11 months ago
Less, much less Also, we do not need to know of every last new service that is from a guy that read through the twitter API
I am sure someone else mentioned this, but it would be good if from time to time you mentioned some other startups...
George Stanley
· 11 months ago
Probably best to go with a two tiered approach. Keep reporting the significant developments and have a round up post to hoover up the rest.
Problem is that twitter is actually a great platform to hear about interesting new apps or services, so reporting on them on blogs as well can be a bit redundant!
Darwin Widjaja
· 11 months ago
nope, i don't think so. I just tweeted that you guys cover more startups than other startup blogs I subscribed to
DC Crowley
· 11 months ago
Twitter is important, it's growing, has enormous possibilities and lots of changing context's. Also lots of apps. being built on top of it :) But it's not everything.
Daniel M. Clark
· 11 months ago
"It seems to appeal to the egocentric “everyone must be interested in what I’m doing†mentality."
I sure hope you don't run your own blog or else the irony will soon choke you to death.
Twitter long ago outgrew the simple "what are you doing now" premise.
Isolabella
· 11 months ago
What are we going to do on Twitter? Market to each other? No one goes to Twitter to shop or buy products or services, so what does it accomplish. Do what you wanna do...
Ray Scott
· 11 months ago
Och Aye Jimmy! We really don't need to know about every single crappy Twitter App that gets released. Can't you decide what's more important, or are you just too lazy to go dig out stories on other social networking news? It's like visiting programmableweb.com and all you see are map mashups. Talk about a friggen yawn!
I get my news from ReadWriteWeb more and more these days as they have BALANCED COVERAGE. Say it with me Pete, BALANCED COVERAGE.
And why is this comment box all screwed up? The line length is longer than the box length.
Jason
· 11 months ago
Hello,
I am a first-time poster. I saw this post in my Google Reader, and had to comment. I am just sick of all the posts on Twitter from this site. I understand it is a growing site, and there are a ton of apps created for it, but it does seem like every day half the posts are involving Twitter, like it is the Jesus Christ of the internet. It's kind of like ESPN talking about Brett Favre.
Thanks in advance, Jason
Ryan Chartrand
· 11 months ago
I have to admit, I am getting tired of so many Twitter "app" mentions, 0 of which I've decided to use. I think you guys and all bloggers should hold off on these until they've proven to be useful and actually have some kind of following. Reporting on every one of them is Twitter overload for us. Thanks for bringing this up!
MattS
· 11 months ago
I honestly don't understand what is so great about twitter. The whole hype and succes aroynd it just success baffles me.
So please - to all blogs and app builders - enough with twitter already!
dc crowley
· 11 months ago
@Isolabella twitter is about conversation... networking. It's flat! I can talk to Pete, Scoble, Mike Arrinton, Britney Spears ;), Steve Rubel. How amazing is that? I think it's amazing. That's all that counts
Stephen Downes
· 11 months ago
I think the point is, there are so many other good applications out there, that the consta sttention to Twitter seems, well, suspicious. Like you know them or something.
Catchwa
· 11 months ago
Maybe you can make a deal with Scoble. He shuts up about FriendFeed and you do the same about Twitter.
Anrkist
· 11 months ago
Twitter is the MTV of the web world. It's easy, lots of people use it and not a single person has found any real use from it other than to advertise a blog or themselves. Yeah, I use it... but why? Yoda kicks ass.
Jeppe
· 11 months ago
Yes please. Please shut up about Twitter. It's neither news or fun anymore...
David
· 11 months ago
While there's a lot of new posts on Twitter, at its core there doesn't feel to be anything new to talk about. So yes it should be talked about less.
Mark Drapeau
· 11 months ago
This is getting ridiculous. Mashable covers what it covers. It is not TechCrunch or or other sites that cover lots of new startup companies. They cover "social networking news." So, what's in the news? Well, what's in the news? Twitter is. They're winning awards, influencing Presidential elections, getting hacked, and have spawned all kinds of derivative startup companies, platforms, and programs. And news. Famous people are using it. Politicians are using it. Are they on FriendFeed? Are they using Plaxo? I don't think so.
When you actually look at the data, yes, Mashable covers Twitter a lot. But it also has MANY "general" articles that don't easily fit into categories, MANY stories on Apple/Mac/iPhone (why none on the BlackBerry? No exciting news. No breakthroughs. No quirks. No hacks. No one cares.) And numerous stories on everything from Picasa to LiveJournal to BlogTalkRadio to WallStrip to Digg to Stumbleupon to Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, WordPress.......not to mention startups like DareMyCompany, Whostalkin, and MeetingWave.
Your company or idea will get written about at Mashable when its news. Or people think its news. Until then, its just a company or idea.
Erik
· 11 months ago
Yeah, its cool. It's awesome. Show me the money, Jerry. 8000 companies making really neat applications that let people chat with each other. You want to talk about twitter? Talk about how someone, anyone, can build a business around this because I ain't seeing it at the moment. Talk about how these companies are going to generate a return on investment. I will read that all day long.
jez
· 11 months ago
its stupid how much its getting. for such a SIMPLE thing like micro blogging, people are turning it to some kind of online social fantasy. id personally like to see the blogging community focus their attention to a wider range of topics, as soon as i see 'twitter' in the title of posts i never read them anyway.
PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT
Stev Stephens
· 11 months ago
I'd be more interested in learning how many of us readers are actually using twitter. Not to be confused with how many of us signed up to see what all of the hype is all about - but I mean actually using it.
evhershey
· 11 months ago
I do not use twitter, I will likely use it very little in the future or not at all.
Ro
· 11 months ago
It's tech, it's popular, so no.
Gargamuzal
· 11 months ago
People writes about twitter because they believe is some kind of magical word to attrack visitors and traffic So with more traffic you can get more money from advertisiment. Now, all the tech blog talk about twitter and that's not a hot word anymore, it's old,and nothing new can be told about that. Just like the web2.0. It's time to stop the empty talking, the buzzword filled articles and start to write seriously, but seriously, it's really hard to find something relevant about "tech". ¿A new fancy machine, a new notebook, a new crappy startup waiting to be buyed by google? ¿A new service from google? Let's face it, Internet is not a serious bussiness
Laura
· 11 months ago
Ditto on a lot of the other comments. I think Mashable has covered Twitter a bit too much, to the point where other interesting tech news has probably been ignored. It would be great to hear about other start ups, about lay offs, about new trends, etc. Twitter is great but the signal to noise ratio on the service is getting annoying to the point where I don't care to hear as much about it. (Even as I want to talk about it myself.) Unless there is something new to cover, give Twitter a pass.
Will
· 11 months ago
Everytime I look at my Mashable RSS feed, I expect half the new entries to be about Twitter. Please reduce your Twitter coverage.
Shannon
· 11 months ago
YES PLEASE SHUTUP. SO DAMN ANNOYING, I'VE HEARD ENOUGH!
Tim
· 11 months ago
It's a funny phenomenon. In general my criticism of Mashable and other such blogs is that they cover West Coast startups rather than larger trends or of other, more successful companies. So, Mashable talks endlessly about Shelfari and not about (my company) LibraryThing. Having almost three times the traffic doesn't matter if you're headquartered in Maine and nobody in San Fransisco has a dime in you.
So the Twitter obsession is peculiar. Twitter is an interesting tech story, but it's not of major economic significance. If West-Coast VCs are piling into Twitter apps because Mashable keeps talking about them, maybe some justice will come out of it.
But if this is all about making Mashable more about trends and less about deals, more power to you!
Grant
· 11 months ago
I am sick of reading about twitter so much. I've come close to unbookmarking Mashable.com because of all the twitter stories. True story!
In any case, good job noticing and covering the criticism.
paul
· 11 months ago
To answer your question - YES!! I used to come to Mashable everyday - several times a day. Now i make myself click over. Because it's all twitter all the time.
I have to skip 90% of the articles on here now, where as before I'd only pass over 10%. And I think the comment totals on the post would bear this to be true... there's so few comments on each post now it's like no one cares. It's twitter and the iPhone apps (I don't own an iPhone and though I dont hate apple, c'mon!)
Dale Clark
· 11 months ago
Twitter is a pretty neat little tool, but i have heard a lot about it. but there is plenty of other stuff to read. so do what ya do.
Jennifer Van Grove
· 11 months ago
Pete, it's definitely a valid question. Even as a newbie I'm writing about Twitter apps pretty much every day.
It's so strange that a post that has nothing to do with "news" related to Twitter gets 69 comments and counting. It makes me wonder...if no one left a comment, it might be more tempting to stop writing about Twitter altogether, but if this post is any indication, it's a popular subject matter. Love it or hate it, you're reading (and commenting).
Scott
· 11 months ago
Much Less! Twitter is a silly service that only exists for those who are too lazy to think in more than 140 characters. Tech bloggers love it because it frees them from having to do all the traditional journalist things, like using proper grammar, developing thoughts instead of just posting links, etc.
It doesn't make any money, it will never make any money, and it's relatively useless for anything beyond ego stroking. It *may* be useful if some other service uses it on the backend to enable their valuable service, but twitter by itself will never last.
Rohit
· 11 months ago
Agreed that Twitter is the "next big thing", and deserves some attention, but then it shouldn't be that every new thing related to it gets on Mashable. Just the important ones should come. There are probably hundreds of Twitter apps, and a little google search might help. So just ease down a bit and just post a little less about Twitter, there are more interesting things in the social world to write about isn't it? ;)
OM
· 11 months ago
I love your website, but I've learned to skip these Twitter posts.
spinmeister
· 11 months ago
I can't tell you what's right or wrong, since that is entirely your business bet to make. But I've started to immediately delete mashable twitter RSS entries. Twitter may be the most vibrant thing at the moment, but it deserves only x% of my daily intake, where x is well under 5%. And a few days ago, for the first time in a long time, the thought of unsubscribing from Mashable actually crossed my mind.
The other time was when Mark 'Rizzn' H. started to insert neocon language/commentary into what I had appreciated as a technology / marketing / business blog.
For me it's all about signal to noise ratio in what I take in.
Ricky Martin
· 11 months ago
Yawwwwnnn.
I am bored. Twitter is great, but Mashable has somehow presumed that everyone visiting here prays Twitter.
I for one have had more of TW here than i can digest.
Pls us some break from TW praise that we can be loyal fans of Mashable !!!
Robert Andrews
· 11 months ago
Answer: for the love of god, yes.
thisandthat
· 11 months ago
twitter will disrupt google with the approach towards perfect realtime data. people are creating their own personalization filters through the feedback of their networks. sad thing is it doesn't seem like the twitter folks have any idea how disruptive it is, or if so they don't seem to be harnessing it
this is what you should be writing about, or figuring out. it will be an incredible waste if they don't figure out how to take advantage. or someone else will eat their lunch
Andrei
· 11 months ago
I hate twitter, so please stop. It's the most useless thing on the web.
Guest
· 11 months ago
As someone who doesn't see the added value of using Twitter (no really), you'd think it would vote less. But apparently this is hot, so that justifies the extended coverage. I just pull the Mashable feed through Yahoo Pipes to get rid of the Twitter crap. Works as a blaze.
Anands
· 11 months ago
Finally some sense has creeped into the tech blogging world. Get this geeks
"Twitter is a platform for guys with no lives to crib about what's up with their lives"
Matt
· 11 months ago
It annoys me when I see people slating twitter, especially the comment that it's “just for lazy bloggersâ€. Sorry but that is a load of bollocks. I thought twitter was a pile of poo for ages, but then actually gave it a go during the US elections (needed a (very)quick and easy microblogging service) and twitter seemed like the obvious choice, I enjoyed using it so much that I stuck with it. You only get crap on there if you choose to follow idiots who only ever post crap, and MOST bloggers use it to inform people of new blog posts, or for snippets between real blog posts (what twitter was designed for). I suggest if you find bloggers that are using it instead of a blog then they are not worth reading and you just don’t follow them? Simple? I would hazard a guess that many of these "haters" have a Facebook, and update their statuses; twitter is just a dedicated website for status updates really. Indeed my twitter updates my Facebook status. I don't know why everyone gets so worked up about it. If you don't like it, don't use it... but seriously give it a go first, because it is good! I have made new (business and personal) contacts, chatted to friends on there, followed well known people I like, get updates from companies and most of all, alerts to when blogs post stories I am interested in. Like I said in my earlier comment though, there is a hell of a lot about twitter on Mashable, but that’s the nature of the web – if they are the only people in the social media world actually doing anything – what is a social media blog to do?
Kevin
· 11 months ago
Well, twitter is useful in many ways...and exploring about it on tech blogs wont harm anyone. So keep it up...
Mat Morrison
· 11 months ago
People will only stop blogging about Twitter when Twitter stops bringing them the traffic... Until then it's a pretty good indicator of where the traffic's coming from. Like writing stories about Digg (I'm still planning on one or two of those)
DreamBank
· 11 months ago
Frothing excitement about Twitter aside, we've been surprised by how much traffic it's driving to our site, both via our meagre group of followers and other people twittering about DreamBank.
AnthonyF.
· 11 months ago
Tough Crowd... How was it when we went from telegraph to telephone? Any new tech will get buzz untill over saturation happens. I think we have a ways to go. Only us, the early adapters are annoyed right now...
Scott
· 11 months ago
There is nothing twitter does that Facebook, FriendFeed, or even simple RSS doesn't do better. Twitter will never be adopted by the vast majority of technology users as Facebook has, it's just not friendly or useful enough *on its own*, and it has so much spam vs good content that most people don't have time to sift through it.
And yes, I've used twitter. I've had a profile since June 2007. I've followed some of the "industry's best" to see what it's all about.
Zachary Collins
· 11 months ago
I love Twitter! I am beggining to create applications for it and I love hearing about new applications and developments.
Twitter ROCKS!
Craig Huffstetler
· 10 months ago
They need to cover it less unless they have something new to say. Objectively and tactically, or potential new ways to use Twitter. I will go beyond this and extend this to social media.
All of this may be a topic of buzz, but enough buzzing is enough. Marketers need to learn how to utilize social media for business. It's starting to become a loud bee without tactic, without clear objectives.
And bees don't necessarily do anything but buzz around before being swatted.
I have long thought you all pay a little too much attention to twitter in your writing.
As tech blog writers, you may jump on every new bit of twitter news you hear, but as a user I'm interested only in what you find to be the best, most useful tools and news concerning the platform.
At times, this blog feels like its a blog about twitter, with a few exceptions. I think microblogging, though not necessarily on the twitter platform, has a great future. But until that future comes, I don't need to hear every bit of that development on a blog which is supposed to cover a wide variety of topics. In this case, those other topics could get croweded out.
Thanks very much for seeking feedback from your readerss. I stop by every day and will continue to do so.
Jeremy
· 10 months ago
It's too much already. Twitter is for people who want attention, are lonely, and have nothing better to do. There are very few legitimate uses for the service, and it's gotten far more attention than is warranted. Please stop posting ten stories a day about Twitter nonsense.
jorge
· 10 months ago
man when i come to this site i want to know new things all i hear is about twitter its like if twitter pays mashable ..
Alex "MWYS" Newman
· 10 months ago
I am sick to death of hearing about twitter.
I would love it if you never mentioned it again and focused some attention on some of the other interesting stuff that is happening outside that particular goldfish-bowl.
Hey, you asked. :)
JMV
· 10 months ago
I love the daily emails, don't get me wrong. But I want to throw in another vote for being twittered-out. Why not start a Twitter newsletter… and then have a separate Mashable newsletter for web news with only the most significant Twitter news in it?
Today's entry about the guy who destroyed his brand in minutes made me feel like I was back in high school, everyone gossiping about everyone else. I don't mean any disrespect, but when you are looking at some of these Twitter stories from an outsider's perspective (I don't use it… yet), it can seem quite silly.
Just my 2c. Keep up the good work.
Hokes
· 10 months ago
I complained about this to friend few month ago too, and I just stopped read Mashable for a while. Probably sick from that. And after a long time I found this article today, and Im relieved that lots of reader also think exactly what I thought. Information about new things include about twitter is fine, but too much twitter make me sick...
Hokes
· 10 months ago
I complained about this to friend few month ago too, and I just stopped read Mashable for a while. Probably sick from that. And after a long time I found this article today, and Im relieved that lots of reader also think exactly what I thought. Information about new things include about twitter is fine, but too much twitter make me sick...
Gerald Weber
· 7 months ago
Let me give you my 2 cent. No blogs should not shut up about Twitter. Twitter is the future and is also very exciting. More Twitter please. :-)
All Comments
I think the root of the trouble here is that Twitter apps are so easy to build that they drown out other startups, which can take months.
Some team of people or single tweeter came up with a neat integration for the Twitter API... AWESOME! it happens 3 times a day.
The only news worthy thing Twitter has coming? Is when they find out how to make money & what that profit model is.
http://twitter.com/colorburned
but this isn't the NYT where you have to inform 50 somethings about this weird
internet thing that the 20 and 30 somethings are into called "twitter".
If we're reading mashable, we probably know about Twitter developments because
half the tech blogs talk about it too.
How about a weekly twitter roundup if you must write about it?
Twitter as it breaks it's way into the mainstream.
If they're only interested
in other tech bloggers they should concentrate on something more esoteric and
futuristic.
craze is like saying that news reporters should stop reporting on Obama because
there is too much news about him already. There is never enough until the hype
dies down and until then Tech sites if they are smart should continue to write
about the latest hypes at the moment and right now that is Twitter.
They can always skip over posts they don't want to read
Here's your starting off point: do you cover every single Facebook application that's released? Are they all "news"? If not, why not? Now, apply that reasoning to the hundreds of Twitter apps being released right now.
If there is genuine news, you should be covering it, not burying it. If something isn't genuine news, you shouldn't bother with it unless you're having a real slow news day.
don't like it...
I like reading Twitter content and most of the information posted here is of
great value.
Keep up the posting!
U can follow me at @bizlady08
I skip over any posts about Twitter-related apps.
http://twitter.com/AnaliFirst
months blindly without ever using it. Now that I've been using it /jimmyrey .
I find it to be extremely useful and have closed business and made new networking
contacts.
Keep reporting on it!!!
I found it was become saturated with crap, it lacked relevance, and there were
better options in the realm, focused more on location (BrightKite) and sharing
relevant content - media and otherwise (Facebook feed, Tumblr).
But it is much more attention to twitter that it deserve, I think last time it
took 30% attention of mushable writers.
There are much startups on internet that are need your attention, they are
working hard to be there and here. Just another twitter app
- WOW that is cool - not for me, i'm reader, I want to know all news,
but including not only all about twitter.
But twitter is cool :)
but please continue especially the summary and overview articles on twitter, they make my live much easier. ;)
That says more about the people you chose to follow than the service itself. The people I pay attention to on Twitter are friends and collegues that provide me with interesting information and conversation. If you were inundated with crap and irrelevance, you were following the wrong people.
Twitter is a tool, nothing more. It is what you make of it.
The fact remains Twitter attracts hundreds of new users a day, some of which are in markets that are
not utilizing social media to the extent they should. Simply because social media firms and networks
are aware of the ins and outs of using tools such as Twitter, doesn't mean all marketing firms, brands, and industries
are using social networking to market.
@rommy Twitter can be extremely useful way of bringing the news to you versus you seeking it out. A user
just needs to customize their account to only receive relevant updates from people in their respective industry.
You can't "follow" every Joe on Twitter - you will get a ton of crap. But if you are selective and follow those like
Pete Cashmere, who share the same interests, Twitter can be extremely useful. Great way to not only see what
consumers are saying about your brand or industry, but also see what is said about the competition. Free research and insight,
if used productively.
I'd like to filter out certain subjects (like Twitter) but also certain authors (no offense to those authors, it's just that some authors cover my interests better than others).
about. It seems to appeal to the egocentric "everyone must be interested in what
I'm doing" mentality.
Also, we do not need to know of every last new service that is from a guy
that read through the twitter API
I am sure someone else mentioned this, but it would be good if from time to
time you mentioned some other startups...
significant developments and have a round up post to hoover up the rest.
Problem is that twitter is actually a great platform to hear about interesting
new apps or services, so reporting on them on blogs as well can be a bit
redundant!
I’m doing†mentality."
I sure hope you don't run your own blog or else the irony will soon choke you to death.
Twitter long ago outgrew the simple "what are you doing now" premise.
App that gets released. Can't you decide what's more important, or are you just
too lazy to go dig out stories on other social networking news? It's like visiting
programmableweb.com and all you see are map mashups. Talk about a friggen yawn!
I get my news from ReadWriteWeb more and more these days as they have
BALANCED COVERAGE. Say it with me Pete, BALANCED COVERAGE.
And why is this comment box all screwed up? The line length is longer than the box
length.
I am a first-time poster. I saw this post in my Google Reader, and had to comment. I am just sick of all the posts on Twitter from this site. I understand it is a growing site, and there are a ton of apps created for it, but it does seem like every day half the posts are involving Twitter, like it is the Jesus Christ of the internet. It's kind of like ESPN talking about Brett Favre.
Thanks in advance,
Jason
So please - to all blogs and app builders - enough with twitter already!
When you actually look at the data, yes, Mashable covers Twitter a lot. But it also has MANY "general" articles that don't easily fit into categories, MANY stories on Apple/Mac/iPhone (why none on the BlackBerry? No exciting news. No breakthroughs. No quirks. No hacks. No one cares.) And numerous stories on everything from Picasa to LiveJournal to BlogTalkRadio to WallStrip to Digg to Stumbleupon to Yahoo, Facebook, MySpace, WordPress.......not to mention startups like DareMyCompany, Whostalkin, and MeetingWave.
Your company or idea will get written about at Mashable when its news. Or people think its news. Until then, its just a company or idea.
making really neat applications that let people chat with each other. You want
to talk about twitter? Talk about how someone, anyone, can build a business
around this because I ain't seeing it at the moment. Talk about how these
companies are going to generate a return on investment. I will read that
all day long.
PLEASE CHANGE THE SUBJECT
Not to be confused with how many of us signed up to see what all of the hype is
all about - but I mean actually using it.
to attrack visitors and traffic
So with more traffic you can get more money from advertisiment.
Now, all the tech blog talk about twitter and that's not a hot word anymore,
it's old,and nothing new can be told about that. Just like the web2.0.
It's time to stop the empty talking, the buzzword filled articles and start
to write seriously, but seriously, it's really hard to find something relevant
about "tech". ¿A new fancy machine, a new notebook, a new crappy startup
waiting to be buyed by google? ¿A new service from google?
Let's face it, Internet is not a serious bussiness
So the Twitter obsession is peculiar. Twitter is an interesting tech story, but it's not of major economic significance. If West-Coast VCs are piling into Twitter apps because Mashable keeps talking about them, maybe some justice will come out of it.
But if this is all about making Mashable more about trends and less about deals, more power to you!
The long answers: http://agitationist.com/15-reasons-twitter-must...
and http://agitationist.com/1500-more-reasons-twitt...
In any case, good job noticing and covering the criticism.
I have to skip 90% of the articles on here now, where as before I'd only pass over 10%. And I think the comment totals on the post would bear this to be true... there's so few comments on each post now it's like no one cares. It's twitter and the iPhone apps (I don't own an iPhone and though I dont hate apple, c'mon!)
but there is plenty of other stuff to read. so do what ya do.
It's so strange that a post that has nothing to do with "news" related to Twitter gets 69 comments and counting. It makes me wonder...if no one left a comment, it might be more tempting to stop writing about Twitter altogether, but if this post is any indication, it's a popular subject matter. Love it or hate it, you're reading (and commenting).
lazy to think in more than 140 characters. Tech bloggers love it because it
frees them from having to do all the traditional journalist things, like using
proper grammar, developing thoughts instead of just posting links, etc.
It doesn't make any money, it will never make any money, and it's relatively
useless for anything beyond ego stroking. It *may* be useful if some other
service uses it on the backend to enable their valuable service, but twitter
by itself will never last.
bet to make. But I've started to immediately delete mashable twitter RSS entries.
Twitter may be the most vibrant thing at the moment, but it deserves only x%
of my daily intake, where x is well under 5%. And a few days ago, for the first
time in a long time, the thought of unsubscribing from Mashable actually crossed
my mind.
The other time was when Mark 'Rizzn' H. started to insert neocon
language/commentary into what I had appreciated as a technology / marketing /
business blog.
For me it's all about signal to noise ratio in what I take in.
I am bored. Twitter is great, but Mashable has somehow presumed that everyone visiting here prays Twitter.
I for one have had more of TW here than i can digest.
Pls us some break from TW praise that we can be loyal fans of Mashable !!!
this is what you should be writing about, or figuring out. it will be an incredible waste if they don't figure out how to take advantage. or someone else will eat their lunch
would vote less. But apparently this is hot, so that justifies the extended coverage.
I just pull the Mashable feed through Yahoo Pipes to get rid of the Twitter
crap. Works as a blaze.
"Twitter is a platform for guys with no lives to crib about what's up with their lives"
You only get crap on there if you choose to follow idiots who only ever post crap, and MOST bloggers use it to inform people of new blog posts, or for snippets between real blog posts (what twitter was designed for). I suggest if you find bloggers that are using it instead of a blog then they are not worth reading and you just don’t follow them? Simple?
I would hazard a guess that many of these "haters" have a Facebook, and update their statuses; twitter is just a dedicated website for status updates really. Indeed my twitter updates my Facebook status.
I don't know why everyone gets so worked up about it. If you don't like it, don't use it... but seriously give it a go first, because it is good! I have made new (business and personal) contacts, chatted to friends on there, followed well known people I like, get updates from companies and most of all, alerts to when blogs post stories I am interested in.
Like I said in my earlier comment though, there is a hell of a lot about twitter on Mashable, but that’s the nature of the web – if they are the only people in the social media world actually doing anything – what is a social media blog to do?
traffic... Until then it's a pretty good indicator of where the traffic's coming
from. Like writing stories about Digg (I'm still planning on one or two of those)
doesn't do better. Twitter will never be adopted by the vast majority of
technology users as Facebook has, it's just not friendly or useful enough *on
its own*, and it has so much spam vs good content that most people don't have
time to sift through it.
And yes, I've used twitter. I've had a profile since June 2007. I've followed
some of the "industry's best" to see what it's all about.
Twitter ROCKS!
it less unless they
have something new
to say. Objectively
and tactically, or
potential new ways
to use Twitter. I
will go beyond this
and extend this to
social media.
All of this may be a
topic of buzz, but
enough buzzing is
enough. Marketers
need to learn how to
utilize social media
for business. It's
starting to become a
loud bee without
tactic, without
clear objectives.
And bees don't
necessarily do
anything but buzz
around before being
swatted.
A great post on this
(just the tip of the
Iceberg) was made by
Peter Kim today @
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2009/01/social-bus...
to twitter in your writing.
As tech blog writers, you may jump on every new bit of
twitter news you hear, but as a user I'm interested only in
what you find to be the best, most useful tools and news
concerning the platform.
At times, this blog feels like its a blog about twitter,
with a few exceptions. I think microblogging, though not
necessarily on the twitter platform, has a great future.
But until that future comes, I don't need to hear every bit
of that development on a blog which is supposed to cover a
wide variety of topics. In this case, those other topics
could get croweded out.
Thanks very much for seeking feedback from your readerss.
I stop by every day and will continue to do so.
already. Twitter is
for people who want
attention, are
lonely, and have
nothing better to
do. There are very
few legitimate uses
for the service, and
it's gotten far more
attention than is
warranted. Please
stop posting ten
stories a day about
Twitter nonsense.
all i hear is about twitter its like if twitter pays mashable ..
I would love it if you never mentioned it again and focused some attention on some of the other interesting stuff that is happening outside that particular goldfish-bowl.
Hey, you asked. :)
Today's entry about the guy who destroyed his brand in minutes made me feel like I was back in high school, everyone gossiping about everyone else. I don't mean any disrespect, but when you are looking at some of these Twitter stories from an outsider's perspective (I don't use it… yet), it can seem quite silly.
Just my 2c. Keep up the good work.