I know he was supposed to be dead, but I will link him anyway: Twitters Forthcoming Mother of All Whales.
I’ve been twittering for more than two years now, and I reached a point where I couldn’t follow twitter anymore. I was following almost 500 people and I stopped watching the timeline. I was checking the website from times to times, but mostly losing the interest I had in the beginning when there were so few of us around there. Now everybody is going into Twitter, just like what happened with hi5 some years ago.
I even tried to clean my following list. I reached 200 and those are the indispensable I had to follow, and I still find it hard to keep up.
Truth is, Twitter doesn’t scale. And I’m not talking about Rails here. It’s about the social scalability.
I’ve been thinking about quit twitter all together, but some folks still make it interesting. But I really have to ignore it all when it’s soccer time. That’s why I think grouping is the key to reduce noise in twitter. That or negative filters, as Carlos Duarte suggests.
For now, I’ll just keep a low profile and continue with my human experiences. I will post the results soon.