Re:Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good?
by mynameishere on Sunday March 18, 2007 @02:55AM
(#4831)
Don't feel like reading that. Here is the headline from twitter's website:
"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"
Okay. This sounds like a bad parody of the worst aspects of Web 2.0. I mean: I'm not sure how such silliness can be "TOO good". Is it good at all? Walk around any college campus and you are likely to hear the following half-conversation coming from somebody talking to his cellphone:
"A global community of friends and strangers answering one simple question: What are you doing?"
Okay. This sounds like a bad parody of the worst aspects of Web 2.0. I mean: I'm not sure how such silliness can be "TOO good". Is it good at all? Walk around any college campus and you are likely to hear the following half-conversation coming from somebody talking to his cellphone:
Person X: Whuzzu?
Person X: Not much. Just leaving class.
Person X: Yeah, just going to class.
Person X: Whuzzu. [click].
How to monetize that? Twitter? Whuzzu?