There have been multiple stories in the news lately -- even
on Download Squad -- about the huge percentage of blogs and Twitter accounts that have been briefly
adopted and then abandoned. Some commentators have suggested that Twitter is a flash in the pan because of the large numbers of people dipping their toes into the service and then walking away without ever jumping all the way into the pool. All those one-tweet accounts represent curiosity about what Twitter has to offer, though, and in that sense, they're a good thing. News commentary site Slate has assembled a collection of interesting "
one tweet wonders."
Blogs don't seem to be going away anytime soon, yet only
7.4 million of the 133 million blogs on the web are actually maintained. As a microblogging service and a publishing platform, Twitter should logically be putting up similar numbers. Certainly, the trend of Twitter growth will level off at some point, but I wouldn't be too worried about its health just yet.
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PigSpigot said 10:14AM on 6-09-2009
I love Twitter, but one thing that makes it easy to understand its quick abandonment by so many: joining alone is difficult. you need a lot of friends to make it truly fun and worthwhile (one can only follow so many celebrities and news sources). I joined two months ago and of my 400 facebook friends, only 20 I know about on twitter.
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Morriss Partee said 10:17AM on 6-09-2009
Twitter has only recently come into the public eye through traditional media. Twitter's value, and how to use it effectively, is not immediately apparent to a newcomer. Nearly everyone I know goes through the Four phases of twitter. Now a few million more people are in phase one. Indeed, twitter is not for everyone. But I guarantee a large number of these new one-tweet wonders will get their second tweet within a few months.
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drew said 2:14AM on 6-24-2009
A big problem with all these abandoned accounts is that they're taking up all the good, short names on Twitter. Eventually twitter will delete the inactive accounts. They used to delete them after 6 months, but now they're planning on implementing a new system. In the meanwhile, you can sign up at my site and it will let you know when your desired twitter name is free so you can switch to it: http://www.tweettaker.com/
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DJTwittr said 6:15AM on 7-22-2009
I have developed a whole new breed of blog/microblog and I call it Twittrblog come join us with many Open ID accounts or creat your own Twittrblog account.... come to our darkside, we have cookies :)
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Sunny said 7:47AM on 8-17-2009
I think people had different perception about that Twitter stuff some really likes its abandoned accounts although it has some issues and some peoples have some valid issues in it overall this abandoned accounts in twitter has more issues as compare to its advantage.............
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