The single best thing about Twitter is the interaction, the fact that it is a conversation (on crack).

When it has disintegrated to the point of being a stream of retweets and blog post links or, worse yet, secrets to getting more Twitter followers, it becomes useless.

It used to be, I could tweet and get replies. And even retweets sometimes. But now everyone, myself certainly included, is finding tweets that @ them, mention them or via Twitter search for terms. That means we are missing the conversation, and the conversation is falling apart without us.

It seems to bode very well for Facebook. I find that my tweets automatically pulled into Facebook tend to get far more feedback. If I were Twitter, I would be very concerned.

As a perfect example, I tweeted a question about the lack of engagement on Twitter. While I got a few responses, the more active conversation about conversation on Twitter happened on Facebook:

Kelby Carr Is anyone engaging on Twitter anymore? Seems like stream is so full of promotions lately. May need to unfollow some who only broadcast.

BargainBriana Carter, Karla VanBibber Porter, Barbara Jones and 2 others like this.

Crafty GAgal

I try to engage but seems it is rare that I see the old peeps I used to talk to.

Mon at 12:03pm · Delete

Kristie Sawicki

It has gotten a bit out of control.. Not nearly as much connection as when it first started out =(

Mon at 12:05pm · Delete

Claire Evans

I am rarely on Twitter because no one replies back to me and it is all advertisements.

Mon at 12:07pm · Delete

Deanna Adams Perrin

I try to engage, but it gets hard with so many people on there now. I find myself on Facebook more and more these days.

Mon at 12:11pm · Delete

Jennifer Fortwengler

That’s exactly why I stopped using twitter months ago.

Mon at 12:20pm · Delete

Christa M Miller

I unfollowed a bunch of broadcasters a few months ago, along with people who were not following me back. I like my stream a lot better now, though I do find it more difficult to scale than I’d like.

Mon at 12:24pm · Delete

Sarah Sabin Tudor

I use tweetdeck to sift out the ads and crap that clogs up the feed.

Mon at 12:41pm · Delete

Amy Lupold Bair

I’ve been trying to figure out how to use the new twitter lists to find everyone I used to tweet with, but having fun conversations with friends is still how I check in and connect a few times a day, recharge my batteries. I often just ditch my twitterstream, start conversations, then use only my replies button.

Mon at 1:55pm · Delete

Susan Carraretto

I admit I tend to like Facebook more and more these days for staying really connected. I need to remind myself to go use Twitter more as I tend to turn to facebook first.

Mon at 4:43pm · Delete

Zipporah Lubin-Sandler

I’m also facebooking more and tweeting less – a LOT less

Mon at 5:01pm · Delete

Colleen Padilla

yes I’ve been using FB more and more too.

Mon at 5:55pm · Delete

Tammy Hodson

Hey! We are still engaging!

Mon at 8:32pm · Delete

Audrey Couto McClelland

Couldn’t agree more!

Mon at 9:08pm · Delete

Janice Croze

I am engaging – I hope! LOL Been sick with the flu this week so I have been off of everything though.

Mon at 9:12pm · Delete

Maria Bailey

I totally agree. Companies think that’s how you develop a relationship. Problem is they are using new media with old strategy.

Mon at 10:02pm · Delete

Mary Davis

Hi Kelby. Let me tell you about this new project I’m working on…

Mon at 11:05pm · Delete

Erin Pyle

I agree!

Tue at 1:05am · Delete

Toni Patton

I am one who just talks away LOL but I agree when tweets turn to just promotions of this or that and there is no real “content” even if just talking it’s maddening

Tue at 8:27am · Delete

Karla VanBibber Porter

I’ve noticed this… I try to engage but no one ever replies to me. It’s not just the companies who aren’t engaging.

Tue at 9:06am · Delete

Jenn Fowler

I talk to people! I think the big change was when they changed teh way the @’s work-I seem to have lost track of lots of folks since that happened.

Tue at 9:16am · Delete

Kelly Winkel Russell

I agree with Jenn. When they changed that, it seemed that my stream became nothing but promotions. Don’t know why or how. I am working on hard on cutting back those not following me.

Tue at 11:08am · Delete

Lucretia Madden Pruitt

I don’t have promotions… but yeah, considering filtering out some of the noise lately

Tue at 11:50am · Delete

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