I found an interesting article on Twitter as a business today, which explains a bit of how they became successful and their problems with success. It wasn’t what got me into Twitter but it might be enough to convince a reader or two that it’s something worthwhile to investigate and/or try. Adam, I’m looking at you.
Quite a few people I know use applications like Adium, Meebo, or Pidgin to connect to various IM services, including AIM, MSN, Google Talk, and Facebook. While this is great for 1-on-1 messaging, it isn’t effective for viewing the public, “what are you doing” social concept that Twitter, identi.ca, and Facebook status all have in common. Eventually, those clients I named will come up with a solution. But until then, there is some room for a can-do-all social status application that groups Twitter and its clones together. There are lots of service-specific applications out there that post to Twitter or identi.ca but there is no superb knock-out application that groups everything together the way I want it to be done. I’ve been pondering creating something like this for either the iPhone or Mac OS X (or both). There’s lots to be learned from what already exists but there’s also a lot to be desired.
Why twitter isn’t for me:
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So, what you’re saying is you’re worried that the public will have a greater opportunity to see what doodads get shoved up your hoodads? Earthquakes are pretty rare this side of the mississippi.
Jay, may be we should start a petition to get Adam on Twitter…
Its not the earthquakes I’m afraid of: it’s the “signal vs noise” ratio of my day.
I consume a lot of information per day reading blogs, listening to the news/radio and just talking with people. I feel that at some point I’m going to overload my capacity with the amount of new information coming in.
I feel like Twitter will end up being a fire-hydrant of noise. It will be such a quantity of uselessness that I will ultimately loose the important things I would have liked to learn that day.
Blog that!