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The Humbling of Twitter
As it turns out, millions more may be tiring of their shiny new toy. Yesterday the media ratings company Neilson reported that despite exponential growth in new users, Twitter has the problem of “making sure these flocks of new users are enticed to return to the nest.”
-- Eric Etheridge for The New York Times
I think there's something to be said for having a blogging resource that you feel comfortable about throwing out the most trivial details that move your day and your thoughts - kinda like talking to an imaginary friend, which can be beneficial if you don't have many actual friends, and it certainly looks better if you are typing on a keyboard rather than mumbling excitedly to yourself. The rule of keeping it brief helps, I think, because you can only take something so seriously when you are limited to twenty-five words or less.
In any case, the point here isn't the death of Twitter, but only that it has been perhaps overhyped in recent weeks. But as Nicholas Carr quips, “The half-life of a microblog is even briefer than the half-life of a blog.”
-- Eric Etheridge for The New York Times
I think there's something to be said for having a blogging resource that you feel comfortable about throwing out the most trivial details that move your day and your thoughts - kinda like talking to an imaginary friend, which can be beneficial if you don't have many actual friends, and it certainly looks better if you are typing on a keyboard rather than mumbling excitedly to yourself. The rule of keeping it brief helps, I think, because you can only take something so seriously when you are limited to twenty-five words or less.
In any case, the point here isn't the death of Twitter, but only that it has been perhaps overhyped in recent weeks. But as Nicholas Carr quips, “The half-life of a microblog is even briefer than the half-life of a blog.”