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Shivani Aneja
Twitter in 2010
January 8th, 2010
Information Architecture, Internet Strategy, Social Networking
I must admit I was amongst the skeptics who wondered about the usefulness of the 140 word microblog post. As one of my colleagues often says – “Why do I care to know if someone is headed to the bathroom?”
And then I read this recent article in the New York Times Why Twitter Will Endure that made me reconsider my thinking.
As the author points out
“The history of the Internet suggests that there have been cool Web sites that go in and out of fashion and then there have been open standards that become plumbing,” said Steven Johnson, the author and technology observer who wrote a seminal piece about Twitter for Time last June. “Twitter is looking more and more like plumbing, and plumbing is eternal.”
Twitter is serving as a platform in which the masses can talk about whatever they want, whenever they want. And any smart organization would want to know what people are saying, because if enough people are saying it – it is important!
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