Twitter is massive waste of time

Scott Karp huye de Twitter y lo argumenta subrayando que gran parte de las conversaciones de sus "followings" son ruido y, por tanto, para él una pérdida de tiempo. El concepto es interesante, yo soy A, A sigue a B y B sigue a C, es una red de conversaciones que de forma habitual se rompe en el primer nivel. Y aquí el problema ¿por qué tengo que leer todas las conversaciones que se producen a partir del segundo nivel? -las de B con C-, en realidad para mi son ruido y peor aun cuantos mas followings tenga B más ruido me puede generar.

Let me immediately qualify that — it’s not that ALL of Twitter is a waste of time. It’s that TOO MUCH of Twitter is a massive waste of time. Some aspects are hugely valuable and well worth the time. There’s really interesting “conversation.” There’s connectedness. There’s discovery.

But the noise to signal ratio is WAY too high. And the temptation to Tweet for the sake of Tweeting is WAY too high.

An example of high noise to signal is the Twitter “half conversation” — where two user are talking to each other directly, but you only follow one of them. So you hear half the conversation, like listening to someone on their cell phone. It’s quasi-voyeuristically interesting sometimes, but mostly it’s just annoying.

And the nature of networks means it’s impossible to ever follow everyone who the people you’re following are following — because then you’d have to follow the people those people are following, and the people THOSE people are following (and before you know it, you’d be Scoble — and few people have that superhuman capacity). So it’s guaranteed, by definition, that your Twitter feed will be filled with half conversations.