My own experience is that 99% of tweets are spam, which means that it is hard to find credible people using it.
For example, in technology the few people that have something to say are lost in the flood of spammers. By the way, I don't think that using twitter as a ping service for sites such as HN is helping the matter.
In Facebook at least you can rely on your real life connections, so the level of signal/noise is much better.
"In Facebook at least you can rely on your real life connections, so the level of signal/noise is much better."
why don't you just only follow accounts on twitter that don't spam their followers? I agree that there is a lot of spam, but most of that shows up when you search for a trending topic/hashtag. Those trending topics usually get popular (obtaining 'trend' status) before the spammers take over.
Of course, that's what we do. But the problem is finding those people. Facebook provides a way to find your friends. A normal search on twitter will reveal 99% of spammers and 1% or real people.
For example, in technology the few people that have something to say are lost in the flood of spammers. By the way, I don't think that using twitter as a ping service for sites such as HN is helping the matter.
In Facebook at least you can rely on your real life connections, so the level of signal/noise is much better.