I bet at this very moment you have Twitter.com opened in your browser or in some application which allows you to post what you have to say about your job, personal stuff, about pretty much anything you want to share with the world.
Well, I do the same every other day but sometimes when I read articles, check different directories which offer to increase a number of your followers I wonder if anybody remember the initial idea which stands behind the Twitter?
Let’s check what Wikipedia tells us - ‘Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that enables its users to send and read messages known as tweets.’ Social networking means Twitter is the tool to keep in contact with your relatives, co-workers, clients, any people you deal with in your online or offiline life.
But you won’t find anywhere neither on Twitter itself nor on Wikipedia that you have to participate in all sorts of ‘increase your followers number’ movements. It is nonsense! Once again we witness a process which took place earlier with MySpace and then with Facebook - abusing the original idea.
For me it’s another signal which speaks to the fact that as the Internet evolves a competition between commercial sites grow and people who run their online businesses grab ANY idea, these days it’s about social networking sites, to benefit from it.
I’m quite happy with getting more or less followers in a completely natural way - if somebody is interested in what I’m talking in my tweets he follows me, otherwise - he doesn’t. As simple as that.
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