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Video: Talking Twitter on "Big Think"
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Cheers, Robin
Jul 01, 2009
Robin Dickinson said...
Thanks, Steve. Generous and honest insights that reminded me of the basics (go where the people are already gathered), and got me thinking ahead (will people get tired of tweeting?).Cheers, Robin
Jul 01, 2009
Yagglo said...
Spot on. We Internet folk are very very fickle indeed.
Jul 03, 2009
Norbert Mayer-Wittmann said...
I think you miss some important issues here:1. twitter's success is based on the wisdom of the language ( http://gaggle.info/miscellaneous/articles/wisdom-of-the-language ) -- twitter basically means "happy to be marketing" -- and jaiku DOESN'T (and neither does friendfeed -- why not go to Times Square and ask 100 people what "friend feed" means? might be similar to Google's Q re "browser" [ http://gaggle.info/post/181/interlude-browsa-browsa-browsa ] ;)
2. twitter isn't building "their community"(which used to be about "twitter",-- in other words: marketing). Instead, they're trying to replace it with Hollywood (my guess is that they're hoping someone with Hollywood budgets will buy them ;).
3. I doubt that twitter will "pay off" -- it's too easy to simply find websites that are more relavant to their SPECIFIC interests (twitter is too "one-size fits-all"). I think old people NEVER got "narrowcasting" -- but for millenials, it could easily become a trend (simply because they grew up with the web, and therefore have an "inkling" that the www is PHLAT ["pretty hyper, local and topical"] ;)
4. Most generally: Twitter has LITTLE or NOTHING to do with technology -- in fact: the POOR technology is perhaps even a LIMITING FACTOR.
5. Twitter is quite closed off. Dave Winer will tell you this ad infinitum, so I think I don't need to say much about this -- but here's an example: where is my archive of tweets? (it seems that it would be super-simple to offer users the ability to download an archive of their own contributions)
:) nmw
Jul 04, 2009
Norbert Mayer-Wittmann said...
LOL -- re #2 above, see: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ads_spotted_on_twittercom_-_did_you_notice.php ;D
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