The 10 Commandants on Using Twitter

I was just reading CNET’S Rafe Needleman’s Twitter rant. Now, Rafe makes some great points about Twitter. My favorite being this one, “Until the Twitter team can get the service working again for good, here's what they should strongly consider: Close the site. Take it offline. Put plywood over the doors and windows, as it were, with a big "We're remodeling!" sign on the front…It's not like doing this would cost Twitter revenue. It doesn't have any.”

While Rafe hit the nail on the head, he didn’t point another huge issue with Twitter: Compulsive Twitter(ers). When I first signed up for Twitter I followed everyone I knew and even had Device alerts turned on for everyone; That is, until I realized how some people like to bombard you with the most mundane detail of their lives. It’s one thing to visit a person’s blog (pull) to read about what they’re up to; It’s another thing entirely to have that person’s blog posts show up in my cell phone’s Inbox (push). Now, this all got me to thinking that someone needs to create a “Ten Commandants on Using Twitter.” Well slap me silly and call me Tammy, a simple Google search led me to a site dedicated to just that: The Ten Commandments on Using Twitter.

I consider the Ten Commandments a **must read** for anyone who uses Twitter.