Lylette Primell Thoughts are Things
Did you get swallowed up by the Twitter "whale"?



Is it pure coincidence that a huge whale shows up on Twitter whenever
it is overcapacity?

Overcapacity in this case as all tweeters know
means that too many tweets are being sent at the same time at least for
the most part.

I mentioned the whale because I have been observing Twitter for a
while and noticed that if you have over a few hundred followers  no new
post stays more that about half a minute on the first page.

New posts are pushed off the first page of Twitter in less than a
minute. So the question is: Are people really reading each other
posts on Twitter or are we all being swallowed up by the "big whale"?

I remember distinctly when I first started using Twitter I would get
many  hits to any link I posted with a tweet. Now if I get one or two
hits to any link in a tweet I feel very fortunate and I have over two
thousand followers.

One have to wonder if this is because of what is being posted or is
it because ever before you press the "tweet" button your tweet gets
pushed off the first page and into oblivion.

I have asked the question before: If everyone is talking then who exactly is
listening?

Like many people who love Twitter I am still learning how to
maximize it as a business tool.

I know that it is said that many companies big and small have used
and are still using Twitter effectively to market their products and
services.

What I would be interested to know is whether Twitter is presently
being inundated by the millions of users and the incessant tweets
therefore undermining its initial usefulness.

I would appreciate any comment from ardent Twitter watchers and
users.

Just A Tit Bit To Chew On


The Anatomy Of A Whale in the words of Twitter
engineering: In this  blog post they did shed some light on the volume
of traffic that Twitter sees every second.
Apr 13th 2010 11:06