A Sign Of The Times
Duncan Riley
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Omnipresence was another big theme in 2007 with Twitter brining always on, always available communication to the masses. Whether this is merely the beginning of a broader trend, or something that will pass in 2008 is still to be seen. Certainly I’m not sure if I want to see lot of people live twittering births, like we saw from Robert Scoble this year, but perhaps overall we’re all the richer for the networking Twitter delivers.
NC Winters at Freelance Switch sums it up nicely; Twitter fans can substitute Twitter for blog. For our coverage of Twitter this year, click here.
me first! me first!
Anyways, i dont agree…i think twitter is just a fad and it will fleet away sooner or later.
who wants give away track of himself and that only with cost of time.
By Twittering Milan’s birth we saved ourselves dozens of emails and calls from around the world asking how things were going.
Fads come and go. Social Networks will be to the web like the Hula Hoop is in a local Walmart. People look and remark how much fun they remember having with the toy, but don’t buy into it again. Twitter will twitter out because it is more than just a waste of time; it’s useless. At least with the Hula Hoop, people got some exercise from it.
It is, or it’s like, SMS for the Internet.. it won’t go away anytime soon… only to become MMS (for the Internet, per cloud computing).. despite MMS for the cellphone gradually heading to the deadpool, or so it seems.
Twitter is an amazing service as long as you have a network. Most people don’t understand that you need to dive into Twitter and immediately start interacting…to begin, it’s more about being responsive than being a content producer. Twitter would do itself a world of good by making sure people understood this and helping pair them with contacts and subjects they could respond to. Users see value in Twitter when their UX becomes participatory. Like text messaging you must send to receive
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Squasher98
agree fully, it probably took me a couple of months to get into it, but once I built a network of contacts/ friends I became hooked.
I have no experience using Twitter, looks though impressive!
I think it is something beyond twitter (which we can probably call a fad). The concept of being connected, self expression (blogs), making the presence known is addictive.
A very similar comic on XKCD - http://xkcd.com/77/
Yup….it’s going to be a tough year ahead.
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I have no idea whats the big fuss with Twitter, I have 2 accounts, one I forgot the password. I mean, if TechCrunch has shares it and PUSHING its marketing skills for their own benefit, TechCrunch is loosing some reputation here…
I’m thinking twice of RSS feeding anymore…
Cheers.
twitter is still in its very early stages, it may get upended/unseated by another service or reincarnation of the application but the social trend in updating and posting what one is up to is actually quite important - its a critical part of facebook and other sn’s and I see twitters future in a convergence of this push messaging across more networks devices - right now they are in the drivers seat and if they continue to innovate it will continue to grow - go twit!
what many don’t realise about Twitter: thought-leaders poll their followers and fellow tweeps BEFORE they post an influential blog post. They even blog less (well-documented).
Not really microblogging, more hyperblogging in terms of spread, instantaneousess and non-diluted by opening closing paras and grammatical subtleties.
Please don’t take it seriously, stay on the shallow end of the pool and leave the rest to us
Twitter is brining the masses?