Oh Noez! – the riff raff have discovered Twittter.

Two very quick points:

The author seems to have contempt for everyone in the human race who is not an early adopter of a technology.

Mainstream Adoption. Tens of millions of new users are going to flood into the service. It is going to fill up with mainstream consumers. Many of them won’t have a clue how to use Twitter.

Hashtag Spam. For example, an advertiser could easily pump out tweets that market their products, and simply attach popular hashtags to them, thus spamming those “channels” with ads. Similarly, clueless users could do the same thing.

Quick run away the clueless users are taking over the planet!

Besides that his whole premise is wrong. Twitter is opt in, therefore if someone or thing spams just unfollow it. He attempts to justify his sniffy attitude by saying that searches will be useless – this may have marginal merit but little more.

In all fairness he then proposes reasonable and easy solutions to the problem, filtering by number of followers being one. Then he goes on to suggest the use of metadata.

I would make the opposite argument keep Twitter as simple as possible, do not exclude by introducing a “geek bar to entry” . The web needs an easy uncomplicated mass communication tool and Twitter is it. Obviously it has limitations but that is a good thing. Seems like this guy wants to turn it into something just for people like him -bad move.

Note: this was going to be a comment on the original post on twine.com but I didn’t really want to sign up to make it. That is why it appears here.