"Emma wants to keep up with you on Twitter"

[unixronin]

"Join Twitter now for free!  [...] This message was sent by a Twitter user who entered your email address."

Yeah, right.  Who the *%&$%@#@!(&( is Emma? I don't know anyone named Emma.  To the best of my knowledge, nobody named Emma has my email address that didn't harvest it off a mailing list somewhere or other or out of somebody's address book.  And whoever this fictional Emma is, "she" entered the same email address twice.

So now Twitter have become spammers...  great business model, guys.  Let me know how that works out for you.

Comments

[merlinpendragon]

LOL! I was already against Twitter - I don't even like Facebook (I've tried it twice at the urging of friends or relatives). I liken FB to Prime Time TV - it caters to the masses, but doesn't have anything actually intelligent.

Twitter is more like a bad case of diarrhea. In 140 characters or less, update the whole world with the most minuscule nonsense of your daily activities. I wouldn't sign up for that on a bet! Hell, there isn't anyone out there that I want to know that much about!

[unixronin]

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I consider Twitter the blogging service for the sound-bite generation — people who don't actually have anything to say, but want to make sure the whole world hears it. The one reasonable use for Twitter I've ever seen was a website status report that cymru saw once: "Site is down, we hope to be back up in four hours. We'll keep you posted."