There has never been a service where so many people have so little to say; until Twitter.

It appears to me that Twitter is an ego boosting machine more than a place to exchange ideas. I don’t have many “followers”, and I never will. Why? Because I will not reciprocate when someone follows me.

Sure I could just click on that “follow” link and everyone would be happy. But I do read the twits of the people I follow. How unique???? Did anybody else think of that? I don’t think so.

You can leave your Twitter home page up all day and it never refreshes itself. It just sits there until you go and post a twit. Then it refreshes with your post at the top and whoever posted under you… which I will bet 99.9% users never read. How could they when they follow 20,000 other people. If only half of them posted daily, that would be ten thousand entries a day. Come on.

These peole boasting they have 20,000 followers fail to mention they follow 25,000 others. I follow you, you follow me. What the hell good is that!

I’ll never get a ton of followers because I refuse to follow people who post crap. And, boy is there crap on Twitter.  Here’s my top list of worthless twits:

• Any twit with a hyperlink
• Any twit that promotes a product
• Any twit that says what you are doing, and not why
• Any twit that is supposed to motivate me… “You are not responsible for anyone else’s success or failure. Only your own.” (Actual Twit)
• Any twit on how to use Twitter
• Multiple twitters. People who send 2… 6… 10 twits right in a row. Doesn’t the concept of only 140 characters mean anything?

There are more.

This is what I want from Twitter…

I don’t what to know you are eating ice cream, I want to know what kind and it’s the best you have ever had.

I don’t want a link to your new service or promotion, give me enough information about it so I can make a decision myself to check it out.

I don’t want what you are doing now, I want to know what problems and/or solutions you have found doing it.

Twitter could be powerful, hopefully the ego mania about followers will fade and it will develop into the tool it should be.