Comments on: Twitter: The Gateway Drug to Social Networking http://blog.adam-jackson.net/2009/07/20/twitter-the-gateway-drug-to-social-networking/ Thought and Ideas from a Guy with a Blog Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:38:38 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: MacDavid http://blog.adam-jackson.net/2009/07/20/twitter-the-gateway-drug-to-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-518 MacDavid Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:35:52 +0000 http://blog.adam-jackson.net/?p=430#comment-518 Concerning the concluding remarks of this post, it's true. I'm close, although wisely reluctant to exercise the royal heave-ho you-gots-ta-go move on Twitter because I'm getting less and less genuine Twitter followers. Further, the one's that seem to be genuine still spam garbage. I also got a few pornographic follows recent, all of which I blocked immediately--that was almost the straw that broke the camels back for me!<br><br>Twitter needs to find a solution for this, and the answer may be along the lines of what I originally wanted to dismiss--monetization. More specifically push businesses to a "subsite" of some sort where business type accounts can flourish, much like how Facebook does not allow companies and organizations to have personal profile account (as a result of Facebook doing this it keeps the Facebook user environment clean like a well balanced ecosystem, in a manner of speaking). Concerning the concluding remarks of this post, it's true. I'm close, although wisely reluctant to exercise the royal heave-ho you-gots-ta-go move on Twitter because I'm getting less and less genuine Twitter followers. Further, the one's that seem to be genuine still spam garbage. I also got a few pornographic follows recent, all of which I blocked immediately–that was almost the straw that broke the camels back for me!

Twitter needs to find a solution for this, and the answer may be along the lines of what I originally wanted to dismiss–monetization. More specifically push businesses to a “subsite” of some sort where business type accounts can flourish, much like how Facebook does not allow companies and organizations to have personal profile account (as a result of Facebook doing this it keeps the Facebook user environment clean like a well balanced ecosystem, in a manner of speaking).

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