Have Celebrities ruined Twitter and how to avoid the noise.

Posted on May 9, 2009 - by Wayne Sutton

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I just watched the “Celebrity Twitter Overkill” video on Current.com and my first reaction is wow, that’s sad. I remember the good old days when being on twitter was cool, the most followed accounts on twitter were Scoble, Kevin Rose and Twitterrific. If I was new to Twitter and watched the video from Current I would think Twitter was the celebrity TMZ follow me contest or something. Take a look:

There are plenty of ways to manage the “celebrity” noise on Twitter but I think with all the main stream attention from media, music artist, TV personalitis and more that has kind of put a sour taste in some of the “old school” Twitter community members, thus seeing more geeks flock to Friendfeed. Either way here’s four ways to avoid the celebrity overkill on twitter or to cut down on some of the twitter noise all together.

1. Don’t follow the celebrities (duh)
2. Create a separate twitter account. I’ve create a NC friends only twitter account and I love it. It keeps me connected to my IRL friends and the local community.
3. Ignore trending topics; in the past 24 hours Rihanna, Cassie and Soulja Boy have all been trending. (not interested)
4. Have your twitter notifications emails send to a different email address.

Here’s the first video: Twouble with Twitters

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Wayne Sutton, is Social Media & Community Strategist at Twine Interactive located in Raleigh, NC. Follow Wayne on Twitter, or on Facebook. You can reach Wayne via email at wayne@twineinteractive.com

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Randy J Bradley said:

I think you brought up some great points. I believe that Twitter has been changed by all the celebrity attention, but Change is change and it is more important how we deal with change.

Your suggestions were perfect for the changes I have noticed. I have several Twitter accounts I use them for different applications.

So have they ruined Twitter? NO! Just changed it. Soon I will figure out how to use the changes to fit my designs or I will move on. (not going anywhere soon.)

Thanks

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Joe Stevens said:

I think you are right. Ever since @akutcher did that CNN post the number of Spam followers I get has increased dramatically. Thanks for your suggestions.

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Jared Smith said:

Celebrities will only ruin your Twitter experience if you follow them. That’s the beauty of Twitter’s nature: near-total control over your experience.

I do agree that there’s a culture war brewing — the million-follower contest between CNN and Kutcher was awful, because it showed a lot of people what Twitter just isn’t about. Stepping around that is simple, though — if someone’s begging for followers, I’m far less likely to return that follow. My following M.O. hasn’t, and won’t, change: If you’re interesting and engaging, I’m in. I followed Alyssa Milano, a celebrity, the other day. Why? She’s engaging and talks knowledgeably about baseball, something I’m interested in as well.

The one area that I think most people should be concerned about, and Twitter should give significant priority to (because it appears this is how they’re positioning their core business), is trending topics and search. Twitter’s search and trends are far too susceptible to gaming. I’ve seen so many pointless hashtag memes being tossed around (#mcfly, anyone?) in the last week that I too have begun to ignore the trending topics. I really hope Twitter can fix that part. My core experience is mostly fine, still, but those trends were incredibly useful.

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