What is Twitter Good For?

re: What is Twitter Good For?

merrywriter — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:07:09 GMT

Just heard Google overhauled the old Grand Central which could/will put Twitter out of business.

re: What is Twitter Good For?

handride — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:14:51 GMT

Good luck Elon, Twitter is in a weird space for sure. My personal belief is that it's good in good hands you know. And it's personality first, sales second (that's why while the RSS is an easy 1st step, it shouldn't be the only or the biggest content).

re: What is Twitter Good For?

handride — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:51:14 GMT

Aspradling, i'm right w/ you on the technology front, something someone will do it better, and if twitter keeps shunning investors like google and facebook well those people will do it themselves.

re: What is Twitter Good For?

aspradling — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:44:32 GMT

There was a good Charlie Rose interview with one of the board chairs who invented and invested in Twitter.

I believe Twitter will be the grandaddy of whatever becomes the true use of Viral and Constant Messaging Systems.

Similar to how MySpace is the "grandfather" of Social Networking now and Facebook is the streamlined, better Social Networking site. Their overlay is 60% of the same audience and Facebook is set to pass MySpace in users and time spent on site in a few years...it has taken MySpace like 8 years to get their current numbers and Facebook will do it in 5 years.

So look for some site to really nail down the potential and innovation we can have with the Twitter like technology. Sorry to get too geeky =)

re: What is Twitter Good For?

ElonGrad97 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:16:19 GMT

Great blog! I'm in healthcare marketing and one of my projects is to research and develop policies for social networking. If there was one area no one on my team can figure out, it's Twitter! I also run a pet supply business on the side, so I have begun to delve into the possibilities by posting tweets with product placement. Somehow, I have followers now. Zappos.com has been written up as the most successful "tweeter" in business, and he mostly tweets about nothing. Not even shoes. Yet he has thousands of followers, including myself. Someecard.com tweets their card headline (which are very funny). Bottom line, people are following. I can't think of a better use for this than horse racing! Thanks for blogging on this!