Is it just me, or is the Top 50 Tweeples to watch just stupid?

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Last week’s survey and “award” of the Top 50 Tweeples to follow of 2008 strikes me as ridiculous. Other than being another opportunity for egos to promote themselves (similar to the “vote for my SXSW session” of a few months ago), why is there any inherent value in following these people? If I don’t care about Web 2.0 technologies, why do I care to follow people who tweet about that? Why is the twitterverse getting so full of itself?

Don’t get me wrong. I like Twitter, I use Twitter, I teach others about Twitter — heck, I write about Twitter. I think its fun and useful.

This is just some kind of weird popularity contest, along the lines of People Magazine, some kind of microcosm Hot-or-Not for the inside twitter crowd. Ick.

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  • Twitter does not excite me that much or strike me as anything particularly elite or revolutionary. I have been tweeting (doing short status updates on the web with my community of digital friends) since I was a teenager (IRC) - so I think it's just another social network, a fairly basic and unreliable one, at that. It's the hot, mainstream trend of the moment.

    The big ego + narcissism aspect of the social media / startup world is kind of annoying to me.

    Yes, I have an ego. Yes, I have to promote myself to survive on a month-to-month basis. Yes, I get excited about my own ideas and have strong opinions.

    But I hope to never carry myself with an arrogant air that irritates people or fall so in love with my own reflection that people consider me spoiled or oblivious to what is going on around me. The temptation to get a big head is always there - but I am going to try and keep an even keel.
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