A whole new crop of Twitter bashing

—From Melanie

There has been a bunch of, well, freaking out that so many celebrities are on Twitter bringing it finally into the mainstream.  In the UK, the frenzy started with Jonathan Ross and Stephen Fry’s conversation about Twitter on Ross’s ‘welcome back’ show a couple weeks ago.

While I was sitting there, I kept refreshing on their Twitter pages to see the number of followers increase by 2, 5, even 20 people every second.  I knew that Twitter would never be ‘underground’ again.

I’ll admit I have mixed feelings about this. I like that more people are seeing the value in it beyond ‘It’s just a Facebook status update’, but am annoyed by those who joined in the last two weeks who pretend they suddeny out-of-the-blue discovered it themselves or just because Britney Spears is on it.  It no longer feels like a mid-sized club.

But I suppose my real beef are with the people who still refuse to acknowledge that it’s a tool that does have uses for some, both personally and professionally.  Spouting off about how stupid or useless it is seems petulant and ignorant - especially when most of the reasons listed are symptomatic of not understanding how it works or giving it more than a couple hours chance.

Unfortunately now that the site is ‘mainstream’ these people feel the need to Twitter Bash all over again.  Feels like 2007 all over again…