Twitter, you're the weakest link!

Goodbye indeed!

I note Sydney Morning Herald's David Dale's blog post about how Ruby Rose dismissed Twitter as being for "boring old farts". Whilst I have next to no time for Ruby Rose, I have long questioned Twitter's usefulness to a photographer. The decision to dismiss Twitter was just an inevitability.

Twitter - all 140 characters, snapshot upon snapshots of your life. Sure, snapshots are great only if you're constantly doing something interesting with your life. But unless you're in Hollywood or on holidays somewhere special, chances are you won't be doing interesting things ALL the time. And that is where Twitter falls down for the photographer.

Face it, 90% of my professional life is not that enthralling. Behind the cool, glamorous world of snapping awesome landscape or beautiful people, I spend hours upon hours processing photos, doing accounts, promotion, networking. Yeah, the mere mention of those words I'm sure is boring the crap out of you. Hey, what if I tweet every minute whilst I'm writing this - "I've written another sentence on my blog!" "I'm done with my 3rd quarter accounts!" "I just spent an hour dealing with a model's release forms" - yeah right.

What about the other 5% of the time when I'm actually doing the interesting stuff? Umm, I'll need to grow an extra hand if I'm going to shoot and twitter at the same time. Even if I drink some nuclear-powered water and I do obtain that additional arm, wouldn't the fact that I'm tweeting whilst I'm shooting be a bullet towards my professional reputation? Malcolm Turnbull tweets too, look at where that got him!

Bottom line: Twitter - photography - do not match.