Tweet me, tweet you.

Twitter, the new craze that some understand, others love and some simply abhor. This small app has grown so big and quick that it is becoming rather addictive. Let’s face it, Facebook did its day for the non-tech guys and it seems that some more “web-savvy” people are on there. The application is still blooming and there could be thousands of posts to write on it. All kinds of people are on it, building new international micro societies online. The problem is that spammers are already here, bots are already here and automated twittering is a blast. On the other hand, the Twitter Fail Whale is a huge buzz and when Twitter is down you just get thousands of helpless people wandering on blogs whining about their misfortune.

So, how in the world can you get out of such a jungle and why do you need all this? Answer: search me. I haven’t really got an answer to this question. The only thing I can come up to is that I just like the fact that I receive links, inspirational sites, solutions, SEO/marketing research, web design related news and info in one go, on one tool and without all the fuss and hassle of having to even open an RSS reader. I’m a Seesmic user and I just need to drop an eye on my panes just when a tweet falls and I read the 140 characters or less that either incite me to click or not. The choice is easy.

I think that the simplicity of it all is what seduced me. Nothing more. I’ve had a facebook account some years ago. Then shut it down to reopen one just for the Web Design Bureau of Mauritius. One thing simply killed me! It is so difficult to find your way in it. You simply feel like you’re always wading in high waters with that. When I started out in web design, visual was the only thing that interested me, now its usability and accessibility and this has changed my relationship to apps. Simplicity is so hard to find.

On the other hand some things have started disturbing me. You do get a lot of followers after some time. Trouble is that many are automated followers who will just send you automated replies. Others are boring and others don’t tweet at all. Those who tweet sometimes become really gross and you don’t get time to read all the tweets. I don’t know if the term exists but I think that we now really have “Tweet pollution” which is a lot of useless and unnecessary tweets in your timeline just because you are following a lot of useless and unnecessary people. The worse kind are those who tweet about MMO and send you the never-ending same link on how to get millions of followers. What do I care about getting millions of followers? I just want to follow the guys who will feed me inspiration and tech solutions and some friends.

In any case, once you start getting a lot of followers you just get overwhelmed by the number of new follower emails that fall in your inbox. I just hope that you know how to make your inbox filters. Just to end this. Twitter is great and interesting but be careful not to become a twitter victim… like me.