Things I like and don't like about Twitter

Things I don’t like about Twitter:

1. An overwhelming majority of my connections are people I don’t know.

2. It seems like everyone on Twitter is a guru of some sort; there are SEO, Social Media, Business Coaches and Consultant galore.  This is like attending a networking event and finding that everyone there does the same thing. (and maybe even the same thing as you do!)

3. Once you have a significant number of followers, the feed becomes very hard to handle, even if you use third party software such as Tweetdeck or Hootsuite.  

4. So much garbage  and clutter – so many people with 50,000 or more followers who are just collecting followers and have nothing to say.

5. I’m not a yenta, in other words, I don’t feel the need to say something for the sake of it.  It seems to me that Twitter is for yentas and types that compulsively need to tweet every thought that comes to mind, but of course that’s an overgeneralization.

Things I like about Twitter:

1. Aesthetically, it’s pretty cool and has an appealing “feel.”

2. It can be a good source of information and opinions on any topic.

3. It is a good place to connect with people you don’t know.

4. It can be a good place to say things I wouldn’t say on other sites since most of my contacts are people I don’t know personally.