Everytime I say it, I feel like I’m referencing something from Bambi. *sigh*
Everyone is so Twitter, twitter this, twitter that…everyone went to SXSW (Except me)….and everyone updated everyone via Twitter. But now that it’s over, what now?
Web1979 posted an article on some of the reasons Twitter is gonna die in 2007. They are the most obvious reasons and having said that, I can’t understand why someone would make a business out of this service. In a quick rundown…the reasons Twitter will go bye-bye in 2007
No Value - No deep content, nothing to learn, no reason to keep coming back to the trough, other than the thrill/obsession of pre-adolescent voyeurism
Too Much Effort - To post to Twitter it takes too much and people are too busy. Heck for the buddy list we had to move the AIM away message to an editable text label just because people hated going Edit > Settings > Away Message
Key Users will Bail - After these conferences are done, guess what, so are they. And so is Twitter.
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The baseline service is addictive as hell, but yeah.. I can see what your saying. We couldn’t have made it through SXSW without it though. It’s dodgeball where everyone’s the fat kid. If they focused on conferences alone they would completely take over the space (and have multiple revenue paths to keep them around)
What’s probably more likely though, is that twitter remains a delivery mechanism more than anything. I’m betting someone’s going to do some really ill stuff on top of it that adds fairly significant value.
You’re missing the point. There’s value in the interaction with your friends, the fact that you can interact with it on your terms (mobile, IM or web) and be as active or inactive as you want. It’s silly, and that’s the best part. There are questions as to how they’ll make money with it, but it’s not going anywhere unless they can’t fix their current scale problems.
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