Twitter-Bots? April 14, 2008
Posted by Lucanos in : Uncategorized , trackbackI am not sure whether I am alone in this, but I have noticed a slow increase in the number of notifications I am getting from Twitter, advising me that another user is now following me on their system. Especially as I am anything but an active Twitter user (predominantly due to the limited number of my real-world contacts being on Twitter, and the seemingly addictive and one-sided nature of the beast).
Some are your regular “camgirl” robots - posting links masked by tinyurl (or similar) to try and pull suckers in. But a couple of them also seem to be genuine, if somewhat Twitter-focused, users. The most recent follower I gained is following almost 4,000 other users!
Now, for these few, real, users, I would have to assume that watching that many people on Twitter would have to be 1) draining (think Superman and his need for “The Fortress Of Solitude”), 2) confusing and 3) nearing that point of “information overload”. I have been subscribing to RSS feeds all over the place through the Google Reader application and even just managing them (when I am certainly watching less than 4K different sources) is a freight train which is getting away from me…
How many people actually, solidly, use Twitter? Or is it essentially a system made up of nothing but the “Friend Update” segment of Facebook?
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