I am disappointed… not the usual ‘kind of’, but full out disappointed. I recently saw a tweet go throw my stream from a user who was on TweeterAttack. Out of respect, I am not saying who did it. However, it was okay to friendly ‘buy’ your followers, but to attack them. Come on! After experiencing Mafia Wars and Sorority Life in both MySpace and Facebook, I know people are going to get personal if you tweet that you attacked them.
That is not cool. At least in those applications on the other social networks, you know that it is just a game (except for the few that get a bit psycho and do anything, including threatening your life…believe me, I have seen it.) However, with Twitter, all of these outside applications are not affiliated with Twitter. Twitter was originally dedicated for people to constructively connect with each other.
Applications to send roses or beers or some friendly item have been great to see, but to see one that attacks other tweeps – that is not being friendly. On top of that, the site is a follow train. In case you all were not aware, the twitter follow trains MIGHT work for a week, but you pretty much signed yourself up to an auto-spammer.
What do you think about such sites? Are there others that you are disturbed to see that are focused on attracting Twitter users?
I see it as the major social network programs trying to get into twitter. I don’t like it, I don’t think Twitter was built with little applications in mind.
Twitter was definitely not built for smaller applications to raid its API in mind. It is terrible and makes the rest of us suffer with Fail Whale when we need to tweet something informative.
I hate that this Mafia War is so big, it just clutters Twitter and Facebook with pointless drivel. It’s like the thousands of quizes you can take that don’t really matter. I also hate that when I post good tweets I worry if enough people are going to see it.
It is terrible that Mafia Wars are allowing users to post onto Twitter. That is not what Twitter was made for and although it can be addictive (I play Sorority Life, which is similar), I do not think the game has any busy posting to the social stream.
I think TweeterAttack is done or down…. its not even operational the past day or so.