Comments on: New Data Suggests We’ve Grown Bored of Twitter

By: Judith

Judith — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:28:11 +0000

Not as much bored as frustrated with all the noise, repetitive Tweeting by some and senseless dribble. It also appears, as do many stats reflect, that the majority are more into being heard (Tweeting) than listening to others and reading Tweets. So you have all these “marketing Tweets” that are not being read — even when they are a RT.

Just as with anything online, once it reaches critical mass, it gets mucked up, muddied up and noisy. Very hard to separate the wheat from the chaff — and this has had me thinking my time is more valuable and can be spent more productively on other activities.

I’m still testing some methodologies to see if I can come up with a successful strategy from a Marketing POV that works for me and that I enjoy being part of. So far, not so much …
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By: Jon Dale

Jon Dale — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 06:24:57 +0000

Yes, that’s right. It’s an increasingly common misuse, however, as the subsequent comments demonstrate – although the writers may be taking their lead from the article title. And “bored of…” is not always incorrect. It seems it can be ok preceding the description of an activity in some cases – possibly as in: I’m bored of having to listen to the same speech every time we come to one of these meetings – but it’s always ok, and safer, to stick with “by” or “with”.

By: Timo

Timo — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:57:39 +0000

Well, I am bored of it, too, although I never used it very much. But in Germany the hype wasn’t so big yet, I think.

By: Justin

Justin — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 01:56:16 +0000

Twitter is practically worthless if you’re not using it on a mobile app. Who is going to sit and refresh their twitter homepage all day. The thing I really like about twitter is how easily it provides me with info everywhere I am. Sports scores, traffic, news, breaking events, what my friends are doing etc. I think people still aren’t sure what to make of twitter. A lot of people are still stuck on the “well what would I say” bandwagon, which will subside over time. Additionally as more and more businesses use twitter it will serve to enhance it’s overall appeal.

I think.

By: Andy Beal

Andy Beal — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 00:46:06 +0000

So, being bored of your comment is grammatically incorrect?

By: Greg Satell

Greg Satell — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 22:30:00 +0000

I don’t know why the data shown should be seen as a signal that people are getting bored of twitter. After a period of exponential growth, it’s leveling off.

Now they need to figure out a way to make money.

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- Greg
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By: Jon Dale

Jon Dale — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:10:33 +0000

You can be bored of twittering, but not bored of Twitter. Properly speaking, you can be bored of doing something, but you can’t be bored of something. You can be bored with, or by it, but you oughtn’t, unless you’re too bored to care anymore, be bored of it.

By: Nigel Legg

Nigel Legg — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 09:08:59 +0000

Two things: what are the absolute figures? If market increases overall, a drop in market share could be associated with continuing absolute growth – ie the first graph could just show slowing of growth. And the same for search – a decline in searches for twitter could just mean that people have finally cottoned on that twitter is at twitter.com and no longer need to search for it.

By: Informixx

Informixx — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 08:46:36 +0000

There is an evident decline on the search volume of Twitter in the U.S. This is quite a sad news but this doesn’t necessarily mean that Twitter is totally declining.

By: Anand Srinivasan

Anand Srinivasan — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:55:47 +0000

Yayy..I love you Andy
Had been waiting for this to happen for a long long time!
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By: ashok

ashok — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:28:24 +0000

I got bored with Twitter earlier this summer – the audience was visiting my blog, sure, but only after I dropped the link 7072938479279279 times in a conversation. The ability to get an audience that would actually take me seriously independent of my continual prompting showed itself to be difficult.

Moreover, I felt there were other things I could do that were more important: building links and authority with search engines seemed to be a much more credible cause, as I could reach out to others still, but actually get a dofollow link in the process. So.
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