3 Reasons Why Twitter Will Ultimately Fail For Me And You

Twitter in 140 Characters or Less

You tweet (read: send status updates) to your mostly random followers what you’re thinking, doing, doing to think or thinking to do.

Pointless and probably too much for your average Bilal to use. Sure, the bigs guns: bloggers, companies and startups need twitter to strut their stuff but you and me baby, we just got better things to do.

Read ahead.

1. Alienating

Consider Bilal, an average desi guy who uses Facebook when he has the time. After Bilal reads about Twitter on Facebook, he goes ahead and registers for a Twitter account. Therein, he meets his empty profile devoid of any real friends to speak of.

So what Bilal does is send out a tweet: “just joined twitter… this is weird“. I’ve been on Twitter for more than a year now, and I can stand by the fact that this is the most common first tweet.

Bilal then proceeds to look for his friends and family. No one’s there. The only thing left to do is egad!… be friends with strangers? Tell strangers what’s up? Yeahhhhh, creepy.

2. Slow to Start

To make friends on twitter, you need about a month to get into a circle of active people. You don’t just register and be friends with everyone the first day or week without compulsive tweeting. And that, in itself, isn’t worth it.

3. Impractical

If you’re a busy person, Twitter is impractical. You’ve got your studies, your office or your other personal issues on your mind and Twitter expects you to log in to the site and tell strangers what you’re doing at the moment.

The problem with Twitter is that its concept just does not *click* with the same snap! that Facebook and MSN did when you first got to know of them.

If the people at Twitter can make a device that tweets what you are doing just by looking at you, I’m in. Otherwise, iss waqt, I’m out.

Novelty Over

For me, Twitter lost its appeal when college started. With two tuitions, regular tests + exams and a social life to keep up with, Twitter is a total no-go.

The ratio of time it takes to get into Twitter and the magnitude of fun derived from tweeting isn’t all too high. Sure, like I said: big-shot companies, bloggers and celebrities make great use of Twitter, but the Bilals and the Fatimas won’t be hooking onto Twitter for long.

And that is why Twitter, with all its hype and supposed glory, will in the end only be for the free-est and nerdiest of people. No offense.