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“Twitter you fail in so many ways, user-experience is one more whale of a fail!” — the twitterjoker

Here’s what we’re about.

The twitterjoker believes that “social media” is a joke.
Poking fun at scammers, pornsters and MLM/getrichies is all fair in love and war.
The Joker was born out of a philosophy that Twitter is about 3 principles
- Real Time (Tweet delays, schedulers, auto-feeding your Twitter via RSS)
- Real People (at least honest businesses if your gonna tweet as a business)
- Auto-Nothing (Auto-Bots, Auto-DM, Tweet-Delays, Tweet Generators)

Even the Joker can be wrong. And certainly the Joker can be an ass.

I am not an evangelist for Twitter. In fact there are some things about Twitter that I think are terrible.

Fail Whale
Reporting Follower Numbers
Altering the @ process to alter their server load
Having to edit and manage friends and followers via a 20 tweep-per-page interface

The main problem I see for Twitter (the company) in the near future is this:

10% of tweeters make up 90% of the traffic.
90% of Twitters server power is being drained by API calls on their data, not on Twitter.com.

If Twitter is just the “instant messenger” of the moment, WAVE from Google is about to put Twitter to sleep for good. (I believe this, I am not floating funny ideas to be funny.)

Twitter needs a revenue stream.
Executweets probably is not the answer.
Probably charging for our accounts is not an option.
Validated accounts for celebrities, well, interesting but not a core business model.
ADs on the Twitter site are irrelevant. See earlier information that only 10% ever hit the Twitter.com site.
ADs on Twitter.com would be like ads on Facebook. They are out of context with the activity the user is trying to perform and thus they are ignored.

ADs into the tweetstream. Imagine if between inane tweets from your hundreds of users, something like this popped in as a tweet. “Skyy Vodka Sale today at Amazon. 75% off flavored vodkas, free shipping.*” I can tell you folks will be hoppin mad. The joker is sure to go on a rampage.

Thanks,

Head Joker: @jmacofearth (oh yeah, follow me on Twitter, and ReTweet Often!)

So that’s my rant. You can find out more about me and my ‘non-joker’ processes at the following locations.