This blog will be a response to Chad and Tyson's blog on the subject of Twitter.Twitter is a social networking site that is a mix of blogging and instant messaging, it's sending texts out to the masses instead of just one friend. You have 140 characters to say "What's on your mind?". It can be totally useless... but it's totally addicting.
I think that twitter has staying power, for many reasons. These are the top features on Twitter that make it so it wont share the fate of AOL Mail.
1. Twitter Search - being able to search what's on every one's mind is quite useful for anyone from Businesses, Celebrities, and the general public. I can search for Eee PCs and find a bunch of people who are working on, or thinking about their computer, then I can make a little network of Eee PC owners so that when my computer goes down, I can consult someone who is bound to know more than me. Or I can search for #24 when I'm watching the show and get others peoples thoughts on what's going on in the show, I know that sounds very very lonely, but it brings enjoyment to others.
2. Twitterfall (or the like) - Twitterfall shows you what everyone is twittering about. It lists the top 10 tweeted about items and then has a running list of things that include that item. For instance, apparently Ellen Degeneres got a twitter account, and she's all the craze. You can also put in your own search terms and watch those, so it's like Twitter Search but current tweets and not past.
3. Potential - There are so many options of cool ways to use this, people are creating an account where you can tweet @weather 84094 and you will get a reply on the current weather in that zip. There are many different apps written for computers to follow your tweets like Twirl. Not to mention that there are 8 different apps at my count written for the iPhone. 8! With this many different ways to access one social resource, you get more and more users as well as easy access.
4. Following - The way that twitter differs from Facebook or Myspace (gurgle) is that you can follow people who are really popular, like Al Gore (340,049 followers) or MC Hammer (247,360 followers) and they can't block you from what's going on in their mind. But seriously you can follow all the things that you want with out any blocks or restrictions.
5. TwitterAdium - Twitter Adium allows you to add a plug in to Adium so you can use it in a chat program. So twitter IS chat.
In conclusion I believe that Twitter will be around for a while, and people will find many more uses for it. All things on the Internet eventually will become obsolete, maybe when we can just think and it will be posted on the inter web collective brain, then Twitter will die and we will all know everything anyway. I hope for that day, but until then I'm stuck with Twitter.
"Inter Web Brain"
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7 comments:
I followed you up until that last picture. Bad form Peter, bad form. But good post.
Twitterfall is the coolest thing ever... never knew about that
That's the inter web collective brain that you've heard so much about... Just prepare for it Chad, because we're coming after you.
The plot thickens!
I do think that Twitterfall is interesting when you are curious what people think about a current event.
However, most of the time I don't want to know what is on most people's minds...
This is where we differ.. See.. I enjoy knowing what's on other people's minds as it allows me to feel comparatively better about my thoughts. After all, isn't this what the scriptures tell us to do? Justify our actions by weighing how they pale incomparo to others? O:)
i have a twitter. i never use it. maybe i should?
Speaking of things that I think are going to die out... Dude you need to post something. I want pictures. Of hamsters.
The capcha for this comment was "dograted." That movie was pretty dograted.
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