Caution Twitter is Failing

Posted on April 29th, 2010 by Darren Monroe in Social Media Online Business Ideas, Twitter Online Business Ideas

Caution Don’t Fall into the Twitter Trap

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Hey I am a big supporter of Twitter I am NOT closing my account or anything drastic. But I have noticed that people are getting a little too caught up in a plateauing trend. You may be spending too much time on them and your in trouble. That is one of the reasons I am actually cutting off one of my own revenue sources.

I almost guarantee you that if everyone is doing the same thing then something is wrong (laughing).

When the critics of Twitter are now teaching twitter usage then we have to re examine things. I am not saying don’t use twitter but to prepare for the next big social media.

I think the worst trap is to spend time building where people are not biting or connecting. Now are they doing that still at Twitter? Yes but differently than they did 6 months ago.

Diddy, Goldman Sachs, Google, and what happened

Though I wrote about Twitters Billion Dollar Mistake (forgive the retweet button count zeroed out after I did a permalinks change). A combination of things. Twitter changed it’s policies concerning it’s own TOS and decided that they were just going to let spammers run rampant. This is what i call the sign of MySpace. Spammers to this day reak havoc on their email system. And as we know Twitter has done NOTHING in the last year to stop the dreaded DM issue.

Then there are other sites rising up and working hard to get the twitter audience and woo the 3rd party developers.

But in this article they outlined in 2009 how they were partnering with Goldman Sachs. They said “Diddy values his contribution higher than we do”. WOW. Then they listed Marissa Mayer Google’s Product Chief as a “huge distraction”.

Something is very WRONG in Twitterland. Ever saw one of those movies where the forest people see the birds suddenly flying from the trees and the animals acting differently? YUP. Something is not right in Twitterland.

And it is not like it is the first time it has happened right?