It has been a little over amonth since I first signed up and 56 updates later I have a few observations I would like to share.

First of all, I think Twitter will make it long term if they adapt effectively. As if millions of users didn’t already confirm this, I figured I would put the case at rest with my final approval for the world. I think the simplicity and semi-anonymity of Twitter is what drives the users. It is basically the Facebook update without all the stalker information and photos contained in a profile. You can feed your followers little tidbits of information to keep them informed and updated on your status. With celebs taking Twitter by storm, it is like one of those US Weekly mags direct. I like it but if Twitter wants to keep growing they need to ADAPT!

I just read a post over at ShoeMoney (Follow ShoeMoney on Twitter) where he gave his thoughts about a recent article on TechCrunch stating that 80% of Twitter accounts are essentially inactive with a quarter of all accounts are not following anybody, nearly 30 percent without a single follower, and more than a third of the accounts have not posted even one Tweet.

With that said I would like to offer Twitter a little advice (for what its worth):

1.) There needs to be some benchmarks set for unused accounts.

We all remember setting up our first Hotmail or Yahoo! email, i’m talking when I was like 10, and not ever really getting anything because no one we really knew had taken email by storm yet and it was relatively new and storage was limited. 30 days would go by and still haven’t logged in and the account would be rendered inactive and after a certain mark the email address would be open again to the public. Twitter YOU need this.

TechCrunch brought up a good point that not all users will be active posting Tweets. An equally important group of people will simply be following and reading Tweets giving the Tweeters someone to Tweet to. The simplest way to do this would be to just follow logins. What’s a good Threshold? 30, 60, 90 days? We need something, Twitter, before you become the next AIM and my user name options are limited to “joshkayser_17334564_12315645_1231“.

2.) There needs to be an easier way to manage and deny followers.

I know I can protect my updates but I don’t like that feature. I now have several accounts for various brands I help manage and I get followers without even doing anything or for the most random Tweets. I know they dont effect me in any way and increase my follower account, which may make me seem more legit, but to me it’s annoying and spammy. Just in the past few days on my personal account I have been followed by “Quality_Score”, “WordStream”, “options91″, “showroomshine”, “thegolfguide”, “cheappayperpost”, “traveltips4u”, and a handful of scantly clad women.

I understand their motive of trying to get me to follow them, like so many users do, but I dont want to be subjected to their spam worthy posts all day. This is a practice I wholeheartedly think will ruin Twitter and I will touch on this another time.

3.) Create in house tools for us to use.

Lets see…. I have TwitterFon, Splitweet, Twitpic, and Tr.im. All of which I use on a regular basis to keep up with the demands of Twitter and I consider myself a pretty low-profile Twitter user. I am sure Dipps has a laundry list of twitter-cool tools one can use.

I want Twitter.com to take care of all this for me though. I understand that simplicity is whats makes them successful but I am not asking for a lot here. Give me a tool to post pics, trim my urls to work within your confines, and an iPhone app and I will be happy for a few weeks until another developer comes out with a cool tool. I understand not wanting to allow me to simultaneously be logged in and manage 5 accounts but if you can throw that into the mix I will send you something nice.

Conclusion

That’s all I have. With $55million in VC money I would expect a lot more from you guys. I know none of this is new or novel but its what I want and I am a simple guy. If I want it there has to be 20 million other users out there who want it to. If you don’t deliver soon I may be going back to circa 1999 and revitalizing MySpace.