Twitter

There was an article I read today in the Financial Post discussing how a study was done and 60% of Twitter users abandon the site within one month of joining the social networking site. One blogger noted, fairly, the study did not draw a comparison with sites like Myspace and Facebook.

However, I've always found Twitter to be useless. I, like many, don't use a cell phone for Internet purposes, and I don't use text-messaging as frequently as some. Sending short messages telling people "what are you doing?" can easily be accomplished on sites like Myspace and Facebook, which have more networking features than updates of what I'm doing. This makes Twitter absolutely pointless and useless to me from a home computer. Then again, I never understood why Myspace stayed bigger than Facebook for so long. I fell in love with Facebook's more streamlined, easy-to-use format with a lot less graphic-overload. Now and then I do admit to logging into Myspace for the original reason I ever joined in the first place, to discover new music. This is something Facebook hasn't outdone.