Twitter - the dominant social micro blogging tool gained great popularity in early 2009. It has become a tool that millions use now and has even become a source of daily news for some. More so, it has become a replacement for email and I feel like its heading to become another stream for spamming people. Over the past few months, I have noticed that small companies have bots that will follow users who mention a need for a product that they might support/sell. I have had users/companies/bots add me that I have not even heard of. Big corporations like Amazon, Orbitz, etc. have deals that they tweet about every few minutes/hours. Following just a couple of these big twitter accounts floods our twitterbox with junk. The good thing (and the only difference from spam email) is that you can control what accounts you can subscribe to. Instead of SEND TO ALL mechanism, we now have a SUBSCRIBE ideology. Although, it seems to me twitter is heading to the junkyard w/ the loads of information that people are putting on there. It has become a major source of advertisement, which wasn't its initial intention (or was it?). Am sure someone has thought of putting personals on twitter and somehow making some money (looking for a good night, tonight? :P). Third-party apps are coming w/ the only intention of using the twitter API in a innovative fashion, e.g. capturing your life in data.

All in all, twitter is great for blogging your thoughts under 140 words. Lets now see how many of these 140 word blogs it takes before one puts twitter in the spam box.