Posts Tagged ‘blogging’

We’ve all seen the hype about Twitter – my god even Oprah got into it (loved the look on her face on that show when she realized just how much she gave to charity – you’d think they were about to empty her bank account!)…

Lets face it – what is Twitter – it a means to scream out into the world stuff it doesn’t want to hear – are you really that desperate for friends…? It’s millions of people shouting out on a CB radio looking for friends (or should I say readers) but getting nothing but sales pitches back. I tested it out recently on behalf of a client. What do you get, millions of bloggers selling crap ‘following’ you.

Twitter has no substance, no longevity and is nothing more than a silly Internet fad (look what happened to MySpace). It’s not useful in any commercial sense to a small business, and it’s time consuming for very little in return. It’s nothing more than hype…

Watch it crumble fairly quickly now its got polluted (as everything does) by your get rick quick merchants , the Clickbank report sellers, and scam merchants.

Yes, you can spend all day “tweeting” (how stupid does that sound) and beg people to visit your site, and you visit theirs in return, but for one minute have you thought about the quality of that traffic? What you are getting other than sad “I´m going to be millionaire one day” bloggers – just like you – without two cents to rub together to buy the crap you are selling (they are probably selling the same crap too anyway…).

Is Twitter the new way to fame and fortune for wannabes – somehow I doubt it….

Don’t believe me? Then why not look at something like the “Turbo Cash Generator” (love the name – very catchy) – this person claim to make over $3,000 a day.. Call me a cynic – I am!

I am a web designer and have been messing around on the net long before the days of the web – my first modem was 2,400 baud. So I guess that qualifies me to have some opinion on the way things have developed over the years. I don’t purport to be a ‘guru’ on the Internet and cyber-culture (actually it’s just a bulsiht phase used by the ‘Internet marketers’ – the type that used to plague the paper classified sections prior to the digital age…), though I would guess I´m way closer to that title – which I hate – than most of the readers of this site. Disagree? I don’t care… Read the rest of this entry »