Twitter - for all kinds of twits
Posted by Caitlin Smythe on 20 Aug 2007 at 12:26 pm | Tagged as: Social Media
I read a neat evaluation of Twitter posted on scripting.com that sings the mini-blog’s praises. It counts Twitter’s eggs (possibly after they’ve hatched) as follows:
It’s a social network of sheep-people following one another in an endless, public notification system, with unlabelled arcs sliding around in an open identity system. (Tweet tweet tweet, I say.)
It’s also a micro-blog with the available space of a cell phone text – enough to say that you’re bored at school and stick in a link to hotasiangirls.com.
It’s also an interesting model for creating apps that will make you money, because although it’s free, (for the moment…) it hosts an ecosystem between users, their relationships, their media and their ideas. Ka ching.
It could be a nice, open and quick way to keep up with your life. It could be a them-watching-us creepy message board, but you decide. Cheep cheap.
