Saturday, 7 February 2009
Twitter, to much Chitter?
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A quick visit to the online dictionary shows that twitter has several definitions. As follows: - chitter: make high-pitched sounds, as of birds
- chirrup: a series of chirps
Anyone who has ever tried to sleep in on a saturday morning knows the agony of being awakened by chirping birds outside their window. Especially when the whole flock is nesting in the tree!
While I don't believe twitter will fail anytime soon, simply because the tweens of the world love to stay connected with their friends. However, in the adult sector of the industry is twitter just one more gadget friendly technology that adds to the information overload we, as the most technologically advanced society ever, experience on a daily basis?
I know for programmers the constant ring of phones, email alerts, text messages, car mufflers and postmen calling can be a big pain in the hiney. We get all focused and we are ripping thru code and sql like there is no tomorrow, keeping track of all the variables and references when one of the above mentioned interruptions occurs, AAAAArrrgh!
Mental Abend! Start over, where was that line I was on...
You get my point. I don't think Twitter will be the next big thing simply because people are already suffering the affects of communication overload. I don't know about you, but I really don't care what Brittany Spears is doing right this moment, nor do I care what members of congress have to say at the spur of the moment.
I just want to finish this code page without more than 2 interruptions.
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