So I don’t use Twitter all that much but I definitely enjoy the occasional tweet (as they so affectionately call my posts).  I also like to browse through what others are posting and catch things here and there that I wouldn’t normally have seen.  Anyways, their lack of technical ability has reached absurdity.  As if it wasn’t bad enough that the service is constantly slow…at least for me…apparently they’re ‘stressing out’ today.  Here’s the gem of a message that I got when I tried to look at my ‘replies’.

Sorry for the poor quality.  I’m on a machine (hint: not my personal laptop) that doesn’t have Photoshop.  As pathetic as this is I had to resort to Paint to get the image.  Btw, 1995 called and it wants it’s software back.

Anyways, back to my rant.  I’m officially putting my use of Twitter on probation.  Not that it’s a big deal since I don’t use it too much but now I’m just not going to bother.  Maybe I’ll pick it up in a few months when they get their act together.

Almost a month ago Mashable covered what seemed to be a marriage proposal on Twitter. I obviously don’t know the couple, but after poking around their twitter profiles it seems rather fitting. Shortly after that I figured I should sign up and see what all the hype was about.

That, and I was on a quest to stop developing solutions and start using readily available methods for ‘status updates’. Some of you may have noticed on the old version of my blog I had a status section. I’ve since discontinued that custom work and I’m working to integrate my Twitter updates into the blog.

My Twitter activity has taken off relatively slow but I get the random ‘xyz is following you’ emails where someone has elected to follow my updates. This means they get to view my updates in their feeds and keep up with what I’m saying. After browsing profiles of some of the people that have decided to follow me, I noticed that they’re on a quest to grow their Twitter network and become wealthy (as stated in their bio’s at the time).

While I admire their goals, I question how they’ll reach them on Twitter. To my knowledge, Twitter doesn’t have any kind of revenue sharing model for the people that visit your feed. I guess they could build their network and hope for TV and product success like Tila Tequila from MySpace but that’s a 1 in 100,000,000 chance (or 1 in however many users MySpace has). Without underlying content to distribute through a blog or products to push through an online store I don’t think a large Twitter network will bring wealth.

It’s a great service and is a nice utility making and maintaining connections and finding/announcing breaking news but without a foundation of products or content I don’t see the wealth accumulating.

What are your thoughts? Let me know what you’re thinking in the comments!

Update: See the comments for further discussion.  Warren suggested I expand a little on my thoughts of how millionaires can be made.