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What’s All the Twitter About?
In just 18 short months, Twitter has become the most talked about place to talk about things. Businesses are starting to use it to talk about what is going on in their stores and in their offices, politicians used it in the recent election to communicate with their supporters and potential supporters, and the socialites of the world are using it to let everyone know where the “it” crowd happens to be at the moment.
According to an article that appeared in the San Francisco Business Times, there are approximately three million users posting over one million messages a day. That is a lot of social networking taking place.
However, one may wonder how a site that doesn’t charge for their services or post advertisements will turn a profit. The same November 14th article stated that the founders of the company, Biz Stone, Jack Dorsey and Evan Williams, aren’t really that concerned and know that the money will come if you are providing something that the people want. With that being said, the Twitter triumvirate does have some revenue generating models that will take effect in the early part of 2009.
I personally use Twitter and have found that I surround myself with two types of twitterati. The first being people that I find humorous as their twitters tend to be humorous as well, which provides for a nice break in the day. The other type is the group of people that I consider an experts in various areas. This type provides me with little snippets of information that I can use in my line of work, as well as let me know about breaking news in my other areas of interest.
Both types of twitterati are invaluable to me and that is why I would have to agree with Mr. Tim O’Reilly’s statement in the Business Times article … “The heart of the revolution in social networking is going on at Twitter.”
