Stuck in Twitter's echo chamber

OK, I admit it. I've yet to join the Twitterati.

One reason is the echo-chamber effect. You know, the one that appears at the end of any popular article posted on the Web. The usual array of misspelled, angry comments is bad enough, but the tweets are inherently annoying. Who wants to read a long list of almost identical summaries of the post you just read? The effect is like watching a row of those novelty dolls that constantly nod their heads.

I guess the reader is supposed to be impressed that so many tweets have traveled the ether, to be re-tweeted ad infinitum. Maybe this show of Mass Tweetery is intended to function like a town parade. We are powerful, say the Twitterati. Look how we march in unison! Don't you want to join us?

Or maybe those repetitive website tweets are simply the waste products of tweeting — like spent bullet casings or carbon dioxide and water in aerobic respiration.

I say contemporary life is crazy enough without the ya-ya-ya-ya's of the 140-character birdcall.