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Asking for Feedback: Twitter for Voice Recordings

I have an idea for an app: Twitter for voice recordings. Instead of tweets, you record a sound byte.

Questions:

- Would you find sound bytes from your friends (or public figures) interesting? Would you be interested in posting sound bytes yourself?

- Does anyone know why Twitter chose video (for Vine)? They must have explored the opportunity for voice.

Things I'm aware of:

- Voice is harder to consume than text, images, and soundless videos. You need to put in headphones, or wait until your alone to play it on speakers.

- There are dimensions to voice than don't come across in text: tone, inflections, pace, personality, etc.

( 1 comment | on HN )
Re:Asking for Feedback: Twitter for Voice Recordings by imtu80 on Friday May 10, 2013 @01:54PM (#5687660)
I can browse through the texts and quickly read them compare to clicking on individual audio which I believe will be time consuming.