The Rise of Twitter as a Platform for Serious Discourse |
| Published: January 30, 2008, 4:11 pm |
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For 2007, our Best Web LittleCo was Twitter, the microblogging/status application that captured the collective attention of Silicon Valley at SXSW last winter and has been on a meteoric rise ever since. We picked Twitter because it "has captured the imagination and become a new hybrid of chat, social networking and blogging." But, unlike 2006's Best LittleCo YouTube, which has become firmly entrenched in the mainstream consciousness, Twitter still exists outside of most mainstream circles. Sure some heavily disputed numbers put Twitter into the mainstream with fairly deep penetration, but anecdotal evidence would suggest otherwise -- most of my non-tech friends haven't yet even heard of Twitter. But 2008 could be the year all that changes. Twitter might be about to grow up. Patrick Ruffini over at TechPresident thinks this could be the year of Twitter. He cites downtime that Twitter recently experience when two major news events overloaded the service, Macworld and the US [ Full article ] |
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