Is Twitter boring you so much that you have quit tweeting?
If you are bored by Twitter, you may not be alone. Recent research in the United States suggests that 60% of Twitter users quit using the service after the first month. Wow. Those are some big dropouts.
Nielsen Research have determined that Facebook and Myspace have a much higher retention rate, keeping about 60% of their users after a month.
However the research does have a flaw. It measures individual user visits to the twitter.com website, and doesn't take into account those who have mobile applications for twitter. It is possible not to have to re visit the site after setting up an account, yet still be tweeting.
So are people getting bored with using Twitter? Its become such a big hit in the last few months that it is really just in its infancy. Judging whether Twitter is a fad may have to wait for a while.
It certainly received a massive surge in popularity recently when Oprah Winfrey signed up. She has nearly 700,000 followers in about 10 days. Even so, Oprah hasn't been so generous in her tweets, giving just 20 updates. And most of those were in the first few days.
So what happens when celebrities stop tweeting, as surely some of them will? And are people really that interested in what their so called friends have to say?
Twitter is a good tool, but as with everything on the Internet, there is bound to be something new soon. Remember that Facebook is only a few years old. What did we do before then?
What about you? Are you bored with Twitter? Or is it the natural replacement to Facebook?
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Twitter bored me in about 48 hours. Have been back once since I signed up three months ago.
Yep. I'm bored of Twitter. And wasn't there a thing called MyPlace or something? As far as I'm concerned, Facebook comes up trumps.
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