Twitter hype
Wait a minute, wait a minute… maybe I’m missing something… all this hype about Twitter, letting people know what you’re doing right now… Scoble posted how people on Twitter reported the Mexico quake first…
It’s just IRC with archives, a web frontend and a mobile phone interface, isn’t it?
Seriously, those of us on IRC during the first Gulf War back in 1990-91 would watch the Israelis posting about Scud Missiles raining down on their cities.
Real-time citizen reporting is not a great leap forwards. It’s been around for decades.
So what’s so different about Twitter? Or is it just another case of a new, shiny, evolving (but not revolutionary) thing getting all the hype?
[...] Twitter: shiny hotness, or brown and sticky? Daniel asks: So what’s so different about Twitter? Or is it just another case of a new, shiny, evolving (but not revolutionary) thing getting all the hype? [...]
From my point of view, the same could be asked of MySpace – or perhaps I am just too old…