{"id":547960,"date":"2010-04-30T11:59:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/?p=1559"},"modified":"2010-04-30T11:59:26","modified_gmt":"2010-04-30T15:59:26","slug":"the-bifurcation-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/547960","title":{"rendered":"The Bifurcation of Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, there are now 2 Twitters.<\/p>\n<p>The first Twitter operates just as its founders intended. Its a great broadcast medium for quickly distributing quick hits of information and\/or links. Its a great source of real-time information that travels with you on any device. \u00a0Its the ultimate enabler of &#8220;if information is important to me, it will find me&#8221;. \u00a0 On all levels, this version of Twitter is succeeding for its users.<\/p>\n<p>The second Twitter is not so pleasant. This version of Twitter is the home for hate and ridicule. \u00a0It&#8217;s where everyone and anyone can quickly create an account and spew whatever venom they choose directly at the target of their derision. \u00a0Lisa Rinna recently got into it with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/celebritynews\/news\/lisa-rinna-lashes-out-at-heckler-for-insulting-her-lips-2010294\" >a follower who criticized her appearance<\/a>. \u00a0My timeline is filled with people with 1 or 2 followers who apparently set up an account purely to curse or condemn me and others. \u00a0It takes the fun and return out of Twitter when you look at the tweets \u00a0people send you \u00a0 and its full of people hoping you are in a car accident , get knifed or just plain cursing you.<\/p>\n<p>Every medium has its problems. \u00a0Every medium also has a hassle vs return equation as well. \u00a0If the hate numbers continue to increase for twitter, so will the hassle and the likelihood that those who invest time towards using Twitter as it should be used will choose to stop using it.<\/p>\n<p>The anonymity of Twitter has value, but like Myspace in the early days, what worked for it in the short term, could work against it in the long term. \u00a0If Twitter doesn&#8217;t come up with a solution for the quantity of hate being published, the door will be open for others to pre &#8211; empt and replace it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link snap_nopreview\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogmaverick.com\/?p=1559&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"Email, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_1559\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"noindex nofollow\">ShareThis<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/blogmaverick.wordpress.com\/1559\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=blogmaverick.com&#038;blog=4779515&#038;post=1559&#038;subd=blogmaverick&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you haven&#8217;t noticed, there are now 2 Twitters. 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