infegy.com — It seems that Twitter is changing the world 140 characters at a time. Nearly 1 out of every 100 online conversations mentions Twitter. How has this micro-blogging company with only 30 employees surpassed behemoth Google in buzz within the last few months?
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psixaosApr 11, 2009
Facebook crazeness arrived in my country a little late, but practically overnight everyone had a facebook account. Twitter had yet to hit us that en mass. But I'm expecting it to be soon. I don't know if it is the next sliced bread; whenever I think smt as such, another one comes and sweeps it away! Tnx for the article
deadbabyApr 12, 2009
How are they monitoring all online conversations to get this 1 in 100 number? Second of all, is 1% meaningful at all? I don't talk about GMail but I use it a lot more than Twitter. I don't see how this is at all a meaningful metric to judge anything by. Twitter itself is fine but like any other service as more people use it the signal to noise ratio gets worse and most of the original qualities are lost as the new users mutate it into something different. Eventually the people who constitute most of the "signal" part of this equation move on to another outlet and the cycle repeats itself.
darkowl02Apr 12, 2009
twitter is okay but once you start following a s**t load of people its kind of hard to keep up
argoffApr 12, 2009
Now days you hear a lot of chit chat about this fad, this movie, this brand, or that web site ... and the sand truth is that a lot of that chit-chat is planted. IMHO, all this buzz about twitter is precisely that. Buzz generated by marketing teams paying people to place the word "twitter" into conversations or to create news or controversies about twitter, or just to hype it up a little, They don't care if it's all roses or not, as long as there is a lot of buzz out there, a lot of people saying their "key word", just as long as it gets people curious enough to sign up and give them the opportunity to monetize that traffic flow.
thelonewolf071Apr 12, 2009
Fad. It's a buzz word that everyone goes "OH hey, it's like the new myspace". Personally it's only good for companies to build hype and people who have nothing better to do then say what they are doing at every moment.
fakehipsterApr 13, 2009
Download tweetdeck. Create different columns for different people (eg, friends, businesses, hot chicks etc). It becomes easier to follow. Also, once you reach a certain point, it becomes about the information you are pushing out, not the information you are receiving.