http://disqus.com/people/itinerantsophist/enThu, 24 Jul 2008 19:57:06 -0000http://chrisbaskind.com/2008/07/24/why-twitter-must-die/#comment-995033Your question is a valid one. In fact, it is idealistically reminiscent of a comment I left over on TechCruch yesterday in response to a piece of Scoble's regarding the degradation of discussion and interaction within the blogosphere due to an influx of trolls, spammers, gamers, flamers, and, of course, morons. In effect, my contention was that, when your neighborhood is in danger, you have to band together, put your backs into it, and do what it takes to save it. This is fine and good for the neighborhood.<br><br>But when your house is on fire, you climb out the window.itinerantsophistThu, 24 Jul 2008 19:57:06 -0000http://blog.louisgray.com/2008/07/hubris-of-twitterati-and-twitterati.html#comment-992215Well, I suppose at least some good has arisen from the steaming wreckage of the crash-landed FailWhale: us pathetic wannabes can now strap on an air of indignant outrage and carry our low (or non-existent) follower counts with the bitter pride of war wounds, and take a breather from trying to get our numbers up. <br>Facetiousness aside, though, I think you're spot on. If there's any part of this social media circus that's worth anything at all, it's the facility for communication and mutual edification, not in the inbuilt mechanism for arbitrary ego-stroking. <br>Besides which, as a commenter pointed out earlier, follower counts are so easily faked as to be meaningless anyway.itinerantsophistThu, 24 Jul 2008 15:26:51 -0000