Anybody else getting bored with Twitter's self-inflicted wounds?

A few months ago I singled out brown-nosing celeb stalkers as the worst thing about Twitter but this past week it's been the proliferation of noisy memes - exploring everything from #liesmentell to, well, #lieswomentell.

I've just been chatting about this with colleague Jon Silk (@PRGeek) who has this morning starting to rail against Spymaster Tweets and stop following the sources. Rather than paraphrase I've pasted the IM window in (right, click to enlarge).

Twitter has well and truly hit the 'fear of noise' stage that any successful communications tool reaches during its adoption. Remember all those '10 reasons beer is better than a woman' emails that did the rounds in 2000. Remember when the first one of your friends found the 'reply all' button on Outlook? Happy days. Remember when you sat hitting 'Send and Receive' because you'd not received a message for 15 minutes and assumed something must be broken...? No, just me then.

It happened with mobile phones the moment people started having a workable number of contacts who also had a mobile phone and whole train carriages became subject to conversations that were only happening because they could.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a big fan of Twitter and contribute to the general noise as much as the next person but I'm more interested in people's individuals ramblings or recommendations than I am in watching them turn the handle on the almighty Twitter shit-mill.