Those who claimed Twitter would be another flash in the pan might want to swallow their words after recent figures reveal the number of Tweets broadcast each day is up 13 times since January. At the start of the year there were approximately 2.4 million transmissions being released each day as compared with today’s estimated 26 million. Rather than losing popularity as many predicted, the social networking site is experiencing the reverse dilemma.
There is an excess of information on Twitter. This hardly sounds like news; however, it’s not meant in the way Twitter is normally discussed as an avenue for self-importance and narcissism. Rather, Twitter’s use as a news tool and finger on America’s pulse is being lost in an excess of chirping.
On an individual basis, not much has changed and Twitter continues to revolve around the relationship between a Tweeter and his or her followers, but its usefulness as a source of up to the minute information is being lost as a search of keywords yields the same tweets over and over again. Effectively navigating the twittersphere has become increasingly tricky and as the community expands twitter will have to adapt alongside it intends to remain relevant.
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