The tweeting spam

I used Twitter for more than a year, and I'm still using it.
I have to say it's not my favourite social web service. A lot of people is following me and I follow a lot of people too but I think the main problem is the kind of discussion people talk about I don't really like. In these days I'm reading a lot of web magazine talking about tweets' power to raise revolutions (see Egypt or Spain for example) but I only read of these. None of the people I'm following really talked about this stuff. Probably it's mostly my fault because I'm not following the right people but at the same time I noticed that a lot of websites are spamming their tweets talking about their latest news. Another awful idea is the retweet use they are going through for any kind of sale offers or gifts as well just to gather more people to the website. Sometime, not so often, I read my timeline and it's totally full of crap. Offers and sales and news' retweets. So I was just wondering if I was totally wrong thinking of Twitter as some kind of brief real-time news aggregator or this wonderful service is probably used in the wrong way!
(Thank you G to asking me yesterday night if I am going to write something new on my blog. I really appreciate the question!)

Thank-you Facebook

I don't really like Facebook because of its totally intrusive way of gathering data from every people, digging deeper in people details. But, as a techie first and a web user then I'm really fascinated about all this great lines of code behind these blue pages and I like the way it could make simple connecting people and friends in the same exact easiest way.
A lot of companies use Facebook to advertise their products or to make money in general.
In the last days I started using a web service called Twitterfeed. This project reads an RSS feed (usually a blog one) and updates your Twitter or Facebook accounts (these are the major services) with your latest posts.
Twitterfeed also gives you some statistics about your posts' link (simply the number of clicks) but what's great is that it's letting me know that some of my Facebook connections are reading (I really hope) my posts.
So, thank-you Facebook but especially thank-you guys!