Is Twitter The New Facebook?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you probably have already heard about Twitter. Or, perhaps, like millions of people, you’ve for many years already, been quietly twitting your way out of boredom.
What makes Twitter special? will Twitter replace Facebook? Did we need another web concept and will Twitter even survive?
Why Twitter?
Just when I’d painstakingly completed my migration from MySpace to Facebook, and started thinking Facebook was here to stay, in comes Twitter with its silly fast-scrolling messages and everybody around me seems to just love them.
Will Twitter replace Facebook?
The Twitter concept is slightly different from Facebook and will probably not – at least for now – completely replace it. But then, as with most things on the internet, on cannot really predict.
I suspect most users simply join to see what the hype is about. The key factor for Twitter’s survival is to let users find a reason to stick around longer after the fad.
Live faster, die younger
As most cyberspace innovators will readily admit, the internet is a tough place. The one moment you believe you’ve come up with the best widget of recent history: people all over the world are downloading and just loving it. The next moment, out of nowhere, some 24-year old, working late at night on his PC comes up with a cooler, smarter concept. Just as suddenly as you came, out you go, you and your stuff, in the cyber-wilderness, to join others who came before you.
Does anyone remember Boo.com, Heat.net and Nupedia? Back in the early days of internet, these were talk of town. The internet concept itself was new and even the silliest concept seemed to have a following. As suddenly as they came, one after another, they quietly joined the internet graveyard, where they still sleep.
Even today’s internet giants are somewhat vulnerable. Can anyone predict how long Google and Yahoo will be around for? Will they even be remembered in a few years’ time? All it takes for Google to head for cyber wilderness is a niftier internet search algorithm.
Will Twitter survive?
Will the current Twitter craze last? How long shall we have to bear the harmless irritation of fast-scrolling sms messages? Will Twitter grow so fast that it will implode? The simple truth is that no-one knows. Anyone who claims the contrary is certainly talking through their backside.
Twitter has gained in popularity in the past few months, especially with geeks around the country. The problem is geeks typically have the attention span of a fly. no-one can predict what will attract their attention, and more importantly, for how long.
Perhaps, with Twitter as with most new technology concepts, the real question should be, what’s next?
Author: Amene Katanda
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
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