What is Twitter?

Twitter, as many people know, is a social networking site founded in 2006. What perplexes me is with the popularity of Facebook at the time, how Twitter ever made it off the ground. It's essentially an extremely truncated version of virtually any other social networking site, marketed towards people whose egos have grown so large they’re on the verge of imploding into black holes.  

Twitter allows you to upload a status of a mere 140-characters and share it with your “followers.” That’s it. Sound familiar? That’s because social networking sites the world over have allowed people to do this fifteen years ago, but better. Even the first of its kind, SixDegrees.com in 1997 allowed its users to do more than that. Twitter is so dumbed down it’s just a virtual waste ground for every trivial thought your brain decides to shit out. The problem with this is the quality of the posts (and thus Twitter as a whole) is reflected in how the most mundane, irrelevant things manage to make an appearance. 

People refer to updates as Tweets; the people you follow become a stream. And that’s exactly what it is, a stream of diarrhoea force fed into the lives of people who read them that should have better things to do. Here are some examples, I only managed to do two because the nauseating egotism was giving me a migraine: 

The narcissism it must take to upload this inane brain-fart of information actually makes me feel dizzy. Even if anyone cared whether or not Justin Bieber watched “a great show last night”, that his views on said show are backed by experience in reviewing cinematography or simply that his juvenile opinion is worth a shit, we are missing one major detail - what show? How can you even dream to share this inane trivia without even giving a reference point to what your statement is about? This ‘Tweet’ sums up Twitter for me. It’s a place to harass people with your asinine thoughts that are better off in the mind of a chimp. 

Again we’re presented with a statement with no frame of reference. What did you have for lunch? Who is Angela Merkel? How are you making Europe more competitive? Two lines of text from the Prime Minister and we’re given no information to form an opinion about anything. Ironically, the perfect analogy for the political system in this country.

So there you have it. Stop buying into the marketing schemes these website developers implement. A website for 140-character notes of worthlessness is not a good idea. By feeding the system, you make sure these content creators go on to make more shitty things. Why do you think people always beg for likes, comments and subscriptions on everything? Because your views mean higher traffic, and higher traffic means more ad revenue. Stop giving these dickheads more money.