Twitter: The No Fear System
April 27, 2009
I like Twitter, and I like to read what others says about the system. I even enjoy looking at the different applications built around Twitter. Unless a challenger enters the list soon, Twitter.com may become a winner due to a lack of competition, indifference, or relevance to those in the know. The article “Twitter’s Real Edge: It’s Not Scary” here. I have to admit that I have not been frightened of online services. I may have to take a different point of view since the alleged Craigslist.com stalker has emerged from the Internet underworld. I think “scary” as used by the TechCrunch writer Sarah Lacy connotes “easy” or “not technical”. I agree. Pervasive computing flows on operations that can be handled without much effort or thought. Call home. Push a button. The more users Twitter.com attracts, the more difficult it will be to get a hooked sender of Tweets to try another system. Google is easy and the company, until recently, hid much of its rocket science technology. Google’s approach was to give the user training wheels with his or her searches. Twitter.com does much the same thing for text broadcasting. For me, the most interesting part of Ms. Lacy’s write up was this passage:
But that’s only part of it. I think the key to Twitter’s mainstream celeb success has been the asynchronous, non-committal nature of the site. As Facebook and MySpace grew, we all experienced that social pressure akin to seeing someone on the street that you know, but don’t want to talk to and wondering how you can politely avoid them. Most people who indiscriminately add “friends” just because they asked don’t wind up really using Facebook to connect with actual friends, because they don’t want to over-share photos, contact information, or videos with “friends” who are essentially strangers.
Now Twitter is easy and an intelligence resource.
Stephen Arnold, April 27, 2009
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