In reading two conflicting opinions about the value of Twitter, I’d like to add a few words to the argument. In last Sunday’s New York Times, David Carr’s piece Why Twitter Will Endure makes a compelling point that Twitter is now part of the internet’s piping; the 140 character update is a standard, much like [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Real-Time Web'
Understanding and Misunderstanding Twitter
January 6th, 2010 · No Comments · Marketing, My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web, Trends
will Teen use skyrocket on Twitter? yes, in class
November 5th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, People, Real-Time Web, Trends, Twitter Content
After reading endless posts on Facebook dwarfing Twitter daily, including Techcrunch today, this lesser distributed article about Twitter in the classroom from InsideHigerEd prognosticates the power of Twitter over Facebook for creative use in classrooms.
Specifically, as students get more savvy with Twitter, one can imagine professors creating a hashtag for commenting during their class.
The overriding [...]
Presto! Firehose deals, Twitter now infrastructure :)
October 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web, Trends
Chapter 2 of the Real Time Web was announced late yesterday as both Google and Microsoft have closed real time firehose search deals with Twitter. These deals put Twitter in the enviable position of being a real-time infrastructure play, whereby they can specialize in the collection of data and other companies can do the [...]
Twitter Too Shallow; The Billions Lie Deeper
July 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
Twitter has made two recent moves in the past week toward clarifying itself to the public:
Twitter 101 for Business
New Twitter Home Page with Trending Topics
Reading between the lines, these moves are on a macro level, and it’s confusing to me how they can be of practical benefit to Twitter currently. They do address a fundamental [...]
Oprah > Twitter; we know this, it’s ok
June 5th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
Nicholas Carlson of Alley Insider writes The Case Against Twitter, By The Numbers, a good paradox piece which points out the difficulties Twitter has in retaining mainstream users.
Carson points out he is pro-Twitter personally, and then raises questions on the abandonment stats:
10% - The percentage of users that account for 90% of all Twitter messages, according [...]
so there’s a stream, but what to fish for
May 15th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
John Borthwick, CEO of Betaworks, produced a “treatise” blog post on the now/real time web.
The article is an observation piece on what’s organically happening in terms of how Twitter is impacting news, traffic patterns and audience. The Prezi presentation page is nicely done, and has great specific information.
Succinctly, he’s saying that the most [...]
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Rise of persistent data; the stream always wins
May 7th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
I like this quote from Ron Conway mentioned in @nichcarlson’s article about Facebook becoming cash flow positive, and IPO-able:
“The next big thing is Twitter-like “persistent data,” which is “real-time data as its happening.” It’ll be a multi-billion economy.”
He predicts a huge market opening up over the next few years around recent data.
What Apple Could Do With Twitter
May 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · M&A, My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web
Apple buying Twitter is not such the uninteresting proposition it’s been called, for instance by Dan Frommer’s piece yesterday Why Apple Won’t Buy Twitter. With $29b in cash, they have a pile of cash which could be deployed over several strategic acquisitions to morph themselves to into a tech giant that could become the [...]
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the now internet
May 4th, 2009 · No Comments · My Blog Articles, Real-Time Web, Trends
I’ve been commenting on other people’s blogs for long enough on this subject, so I’m going to try to formulate my thoughts more concisely with some blogs about it. Twitter and Facebook have long been dubbed the social internet, but their true value is really that they are the pioneers of the now internet.
I think [...]