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NYMag.com

That’s Twitter: A tool to mass-blast the public with whatever message you choose, whether you’re promoting your book or yourself. This practice used to have a different name: spam. But “tweeting” sounds much more cuddly than, say, “shilling,” and Twitter’s a much cuter name than Wiki-spam.

Is twitter just an opt-in mailing list? I guess it depends on what content you signed up for. I think what is really hurting twitter right now is the large number of people using twitter simply to sell at people rather than have a conversation, which is what makes twitter useful.

Sure twitter is useful to marketers, but a majority of them just overload their “followers” with messages that are the equivalent of junk mail.