You say Twitter and I say Twitter

I have been fascinated by Twitter ever since I got the hang of it. My friend once gave me this tip about Twitter. If the number of people you follow is more than the people following you, then you are not worth being followed or simply put, you shouldn't be on twitter. So he makes it a point to make sure that he has more followers than the people he follows. So if what he said was true, then I am clearly not worth being followed or be on twitter. But I use twitter for a different reason altogether.

No, I don't use it to promote a business online and make loads of money or compete with CNN to have the highest number of followers within a certain date. Instead, I have been using it like my personal diary-cum-news feed. For example, I can quickly scan through articles from WSJ or NDTV for news, check out what a particular personality feels about a certain issue (in brief at first and if interested, follow the link and read in detail), get to know about the latest podcast from my favorite Science and Tech website, or follow the latest news about my favorite TV series, and so on. Which is the reason why I feel it is more powerful when you follow more people than people following you. It also leaves a lot less clutter to sort out from as I have noticed that over a period of time it becomes more like a scrapping portal among your friends. So you would end up with another social networking site instead of having an app that would allow you to sift and select information you'd want to read or tweet about. So, while my friend's looking for popularity, I'm looking for a medium that helps me keep in touch with the world in general.

And it works well that way, at least for me. Just like a scientist would want a high end computer to do number crunching and complex calculations, a gamer would want it to run MGS or COD. Same device different usages. And Twitter is no different. Same app different usages. And that's the beauty of Twitter. To each his own.