Flutterby™! : Twitter lost its luster

Almost exactly coincident with my hacking my status update script to post to Flutterby along with Facebook and Twitter, I started finding my Twitter feed to be too spammerific to follow. I've started unsubscribing people, if you're one of those folks and actuallyu read here, my apologies, but if you read Flutterby I probably already read your blog feed anyway, and you were probably just posting to Twitter what was happening there.

Twitter at its most useful seemed like a slow IRC snark between a few interesting people. Then it became some sort of re-tweet (sorry, "RT:") fest, with TinyURLed links that didn't have enough context to tell if I'd either read them before or would be interested in them, or blatant spam. Waaaaay too many content-less "how to promote yourself" (on Twitter, no less) articles.

I think there may be something useful in the basic concept, I'm still watching the feeds of a few folks, similarly for Facebook, but that sense of "oh, look, this is kind of clubby like the early days of weblogging" is gone. Updates that mirrored here weren't really working anyway, I'll probably drop them into something monthly on Flutterby.net for posterity (yes, I have a few RSS feeds working there, kind-of), but I'm starting to get way too many people trying to follow me who are just trying to sell their product, and with whom I've no idea if I want to create a relationship (And I'm not sure how many more vendors I can afford a good relationship with, Rockler's already suckered me into a few daily specials I probably should have held off on...).