In light of the recent happenings regarding the St. Louis Cardinals manager and the fake tweets made in his name by Tony La Russa, it is reported that Twitter has decided to utilize an implementation of "verified accounts" and will begin rolling them out this summer. Accounts which are verified will feature a special seal, showing that they are authenticated by the person the account claims to be from.
Verification will begin with high profile Twits, artists, athletes, celebrities and the like while eventually expanding to verify a further wealth of accounts.
The fact of the matter remains that with many of the high profile accounts on Twitter, we cannot be sure if their claims are accurate until they verify them in person somehow. As a platform which touts social connection, it isn't optimal that verification have to be done outside of the application and in many ways defeats the efficiency of Twitter, by forcing users to have to research elsewhere to make sure that when someone Twits that they've done something, they actually have done something.
That's the only way that in my opinion twitter is useful. To promote media, celebrity, software projects, products etc.
I think it's good to inform oneself of more useful things than e.g. "what someone is eating". I mean, just because you can do that, doesn't mean you have to. It's good to keep oneself up to date with, well, pretty much any unfolding events that one may need to keep oneself up to date with for whatever reason. That's a pretty broad scope. Especially reoccuring events that do not follow a specific schedule, so that you can't predict them. For example, a user reporting the greatest news from a game show, or simply any user that want to send free SMS-like messages to more than one person online.
Twitter also get especially powerful due to its API and integrating it with other services, IMHO.
It's pretty similar in idea to RSS to me. That's a feed you subscribe to as well. Twitter has more restriction on text length though, but on the other hand much better social integrations.
Last edited by Jugalator on 08 Jun 2009 - 10:06
don't even ask how..
its just that great..
I guess you qualify for the second group.
It's funny how you guys are finding all those people just tell you what they are eating, they are showering, etc BS... I don't have that kind of tweets that much at all, period.
Last edited by JediXAngel on 08 Jun 2009 - 01:04
I think anyone who just post these "I am eating... " "I am showering" nonsense. You SHOULDN'T even follow!
Wonder who falls into this group??
Yeh thats one thing you can call them.
I think Twitter could be useful if it was limited to a business scale. It's too bad the celebrity folks have taken it over - but they will move on to something else within the year.
Then remove that friend.
How do you mean? Plenty of businesses use it as well. Just subscribe to the businesses and ignore the celebs then?
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