Twitter has officially jumped the old people shark and I am in mourning.

I love my Twitter dearly. I joined during the second tier of invites when it was still in beta and no one knew what it was or what it was good for (talking about food! and booze!) and other social media sites (Pounce, virb, etc) sprung up around it like weeds or flowers or springy things and subsequently died around it like weeds or flowers or Natasha Richardson (TOO SOON KIALA) and Twitter became riddled with confused-not-sure-how-to-tweet- correctly celebrities (Seth Green, I’m looking at you) and social media gurus (ick). This makes me sad. And speaking of today, Twitter was the featured subject on the Today Show this morning. Lord. Hoda Kotbe tweets and I…I just…I can’t deal with it anymore.

So, in lieu of the poopy economy and the impending freelancery of all journalists and web developers and the aforementioned “social media gurus” (I can’t seem to get over that this is a real thing) might I suggest we all pack up our tweets and shuffle on over to Blellow?

Blellow is still in beta but is not invite only and while similar to Twitter in that you only get a certain number of characters to ask a question or talk about a project or whatever, you can specifically target the group of people you’d like to interact with at every, um, “Blellow” I guess. Or “Blell”. Or “Blow”. Hm.

Anyway, Blellow is targeted at freelancers and while it’s not as cute as Twitter, it’s much quieter over there and Kathie Lee isn’t talking about Frank in less than 140 characters. So that’s something.

What do you all think? Should we go?

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22 replies on “Goodbye Twitter, Hello Blellow!”

  9. But what happens when Blellow becomes to main stream, or jumps the shark? Did you create Blellow like service, and this is all just a conspiracy that in a year we use the service you created after Blellow blows up?
    I’m onto you.

  10. It’s not just that Twitter has become too mainstream. I guess I should clarify that it’s become too saturated with celebrity publicist’s trying to sell me something and what once was a neat way to get to know interesting people in an honest, fun manner has become kind of dirty and false.

  11. Whatever Kiala. You have haven’t blellowed (blowed, ellowed, wtf?) in three days. You’re not even using the product. But I agree with you on the publicists on twitter. Shit is ‘tarded now. I’m not even a media-employee (yet), but they want to shill me anyways.

  13. I don’t think consensus can be reached till we nail down what the verb is for using the site. So far the only one that works is “blow”.

    As much as I like the innuendo of “blow”, it kinda sucks.

  15. Well…not quite ychat. If used correctly, it can be an incredible professional and social tool.

    Professional and social tool. Heh.

  18. Dear I heart Boxxy, some of us can only get through the day based upon Grahm and Kaila’s foreplay. If you take that away from me, I may just drivel up and die.

  19. I remember the ol’ twitter beta phase. My friend was telling me how I should sign up so that we could tell each other what we’re doing when we’re doing things. And I was like, I see you five times a day, why would I need to get those updates on the phone (his pitch had a lot to do with getting the updates as text messages)? The end.

  21. I will never, ever use something called Blellow, even if it is handing out free blow jobs. I still have some dignity left, you know.

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