Thursday, November 5, 2009

Twitter, the new spam

Has anyone noticed that many comments on blog posts, articles and news are now full of people with bite size, tiny URL or twitter tags?

Why would anyone click on your link if you can't take the time to craft an intelligent comment or response to the topic that brought them there in the first place?

The shorter the messages we can create the easier it makes for us to spam people and dilute the value of the content we have access to online.

Everything shouldn't be reduced down to a text message. If you can't take the time, neither will any of us.

2 comments:

Scott Magdalein said...

I'm with you. I've been getting more and more "hehe, nice post" comments on my blog, despite my efforts to mature my content. Twitter is having tons of side effects that people didn't expect.

Done or Done Right said...

It's like anything that gives people a new way to communicate... it goes through a spam phase while everyone tries to figure out how to get value without being a PITA.

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