Will Knott

To be honest, I’m more of a Jaikunaut than a Tweeter, (but after the release very late on Tuesday, getting a Twitterfone invite might change that). My preference for the green channel is that it still SMS’s me messages so I can stay in contact when I’m unhooked from the computer.

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But the blue channel is where most announcements happen. Its where the main audience is. And Twitter hasn’t hit mainstream yet. Which is something of the point. Twitter may currently be a geek haven, but it is an influential geek haven. Stories rage through Twitter like a wildfire, faster than blogs. In fact, the fires tend to jump from microblog to blog and back long before the main meme sites or mainstream media gets to them. Even the news has joined in. If your company wants to see what the globe thinks of it, then a Tweetscan can let you see what alerts can miss.

Of course being a geek I’m used to being in a river of noise. Lots of apps open at the same time, and 70+ tabs in firefox (until my recent flash problems). In fact I get the worring feeling of missing out when I’m offline for too long. Unless I’m doing something I enjoy instead.

take care,
Will Knott

Tags: Mass media, Micro-blogging, Mobile, Mobile Computing, Short message service, Telecommunications, Tweet, twitter, Twitterfone

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