:: Deepquest ::

I’m trying my best still can’t find any interest in Twitter. Posting live 140 characters to web page looks like going back 15 years ago from a technical point of view. From a social point of view Twitter seems like to feed people who need attention or feed their ego: isn’t it the essence of following and followers?

When I mean back to 15 years technology, the flow of information makes you slave of communication (computer or PDA like). Do you seriously need to post for eg sharing latest tunes. Can’t you share will socializing in real life or mail to the remote people you want to it with?
From another aspect Twitter have a serious influence on your life that most don’t realize: if you’re my friend or relative I really don’t care that of what you’re doing live. That’s unfortunately the most common use of twitter. Social networking allow to express yourself, maybe a bit too much. How many of your post would you dare to do on email, sms or phone call? Would mail your friends to say that you’re eating cornflakes with a new generation of low fat milk?
Think about it.

Most people who criticize Twitter focus on the privacy concern, which is not a problem since you decide to sign-up. You content and posts will be as usual in social networking property of the company who host the service not you.

What Twitter can’t do that a 10 years old technology call blog can do? You can subscribe share blogs add or blog links with a Rss?

Despite a hardcore promotion in traditional media Twitter failed to imposed his communication model found to volatile. I hear more often “MrX mention on his blog” than on his twitter page. The other concern is about the way the archive of posts are displayed, makes them hardly usable. Twitter information are instant and that’s the only value of them.

The social networking growth will stabilize because the number of non connected networks. It’s a full time job to update a Hi5, Facebook, Twitter. If a platform join the networks that will become interesting. You post a news that will be pushed to network you belong to.
Another potential is the 3D Twitter, basically you take pictures of places and place comments on them. Whenever you arrive in a location you’ll see the previous comments of you friends. Can be fun for clubs, restaurants, hotel, museum and other unusual places.

In your real life do you really follow people, beside the gossip magazines you buy?

Birds Tweet, human email, friends call.