Life begins at 141, RIP Twitter!

As part of my day job I get to brainstorm on how to brain storm about making our website "go viral", and participating in spreading the word about it on all the various "social networking" websites. Naturally "Twitter" is often a part of the daily conversation but I have to say so far I just don't get it and as the raucous noise of tweets and twits rises to a cacophony I'm more and more convinced that Twitter is getting close to jumping the shark, if it hasn't already and reading this Alternet article did nothing to diminish that feeling. So as just another blogger it costs me nothing to stick my neck out and make a big prediction - Twitter is the Emperor with no clothes on, it has no merit beyond its 6 million users (and how many of those are active we have no idea) which is a tiny fraction of any dozens of other web properties.

Lets get this straight, Twitter's 140 characters limit was copied directly from text messaging limits, but text messaging is popular inspite of its technology imposed limitations, and because it was the cheapest and only alternative to expensive per minute fees for making a phone call. Now Twitter seems to sing the praise of this limit like it was some wonderful feature, meanwhile corporate America is scratching its head and trying to figure out get around the limitation to share URLs, advertising and other verbose messages. Lets face it, Twitter is just a glorified blogging service for the short of words, and a pain in the ass constriction for the rest of us that we're better off without.

There, I've said it.

'Nuff said... but you notice it took more than 140 characters!