Twitter Dissapointment

This week was my first Twitter experience and to start I 'followed' some famous people including the likes of Shaq, Bill Simmons, Chad Ochocinco, and Roger Ebert. Right off the bat I was troubled and discouraged by the fact that people pose as other people. Why would somebody pose as Shaq? Why would somebody pose as Roger Ebert and tweet fake half-ass movie reviews? Don't people have better things to do?

I have heard so many good things about Twitter since it came out, and the first thing I see when I start my account is that there are ten versions of every celebrity. Yeah I understand that I can find the real one by shuffling through and looking at how many followers each one has, but that's bullshit that I even have to do that. Twitter needs to find a way to control this.

Another thing about the celebrities is that only a few of them actually post things themselves. You can tell when it is actually them. I wanted to follow NBA basketball journalist Michael Wilbon and he has a twitter ,but it is just a machine that quotes everything he says in his daily ESPN television show 'Pardon the Interruption.'If I wanted to know what he said on his show then I'm just going to watch his show.

I guess I am just confused with a lot of the hype. Maybe if I start getting some followers and follow people I know then it might be a more useful experience, but for now I am dissapointed with Twitter.