In a completely unrelated matter, I liked the Dave Matthews Band before they were cool.

Seriously though, the revelation that the "unwashed masses" now dominate a platform is pretty much commonplace. Twitter has, for me, become a news stream and very little more.

I did an experiment where I recorded and released a song a day, and nobody really noticed; I promoted via social media and all that, but really, there's so much noise, so much of a firehose, that unless you are watching the stream when something posts, you're going to miss it.

It's neat in a way, but it's also, exactly as the author says, no longer the intimate gather place.

Ah well, back to IRC then. :)