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By: Amanda Crowe

Amanda Crowe — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:00:04 +0000

Post informative and entertaining post in your Twitter updates. Follow people who interest you, and keep twittering.

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:45:00 +0000

Twitter does one thing very well, Facebook wants to be everything - your Online Identity. Because of this I think Twitter is better positioned to win the conversation space while Facebook focuses on the social graph and lifestream via their newsfeed.
Although with comments you can have a conversation on Facebook status, it is fragmented and not as compelling to me as Twitter as a conversation platform.

more thoughts on Twitter at my blog: bitsandbids.wordpress.com

Adam

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:51:00 +0000

Twitter will probably keep a niche – albeit influential – community, but it seems unlikely that a mass audience would migrate from Facebook for no obvious benefits. After all, Facebook status updates are Tweets.

(Also interesting to note that status updates are highly prominent in the mobile version of facebook (m.facebook.com): people are encouraged to change their status at the top of the mobile page, and it lists the 5 most recent status updates before other content)

By: Lorne Pike

Lorne Pike — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:19:00 +0000

Twitter has an immediacy to it that I don't see in the other online communities. The posts are short and hurtle past in one stream, regardless of sender or topic. It's the best medium I've seen for spreading news or ideas in a hurry, and I believe that, in our ADHD world, its found a perfect fit.

Even if the technology existed a generation earlier, the mindset would not have been there to embrace. But today it is a viable conversation platform, because it communicates the same way we live.

By: you.go

you.go — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:49:00 +0000

What Twitter actually did in my view is, that it reduced the amount of blog posts.

Twitter provided a much better platform for the occasional blogger and by limiting him to 140 characters it made the post more “readable” for the reader/followers. So it’s a blog and an RSS reader in one.

But what Twitter is not (at least not at the moment) is a place for conversation. It’s not that just because of it’s user interface, that makes it hard to have and follow conversations.

Twitter as a platform and a concept of microblogging is awesome. But users have to turn to other services for easier convesrations.

We’ve been toying around with a pet project, a Twitter clone of course, focusing mainly on how to make conversations easier.

Have look and give us some comments if you like.

http://blog.koornk.com/2009/01/14/pick-a-topic-any-topic/

http://blog.koornk.com/2008/12/30/converations-made-easy-in-koornk/

Right now, Facebook is absolutely much more of a conversation place, but Twitter can do a lot just by improving their UI.

By: billgluth

billgluth — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:28:00 +0000

It looks like, from all the evidence you presented, Twitter has grown into a very viable communications platform. Good thoughts!

By: kelbyj

kelbyj — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:16:00 +0000

Interesting line of thought. Obviously Tweetsville has emerged as the preferred micro-blogging space for most users (save students). However, with the status updates (which is basically their Twitter) and Connect FB is well positioned to emerge a (if not THE) player as online communications continues to evolve. That said, I think most people like to have different venues in which to operate. Look at Scoble. He airs some high level thoughts via Twitter then pulls his followers over to Friendfeed (maybe FB too) to elaborate. I don’t think we’re ready for one uber conversation medium, but I do think TW and FB are definitely the current bar. Good topic. Keep up the thought provoking posts!