So, I have joined Twitter… now what?
I got an email invitation from my friend Tim to join Twitter: “This site Twitter keeps getting mentioned on influential blogs and websites,” he said, “It’s a fast burner at the moment in the States. Sign up like I have, and let’s see if it’s any good.”
Ok, so I have done that… now what?
A few days later, and I am embarassed to say that I don’t quite get it (yet). I’m usually quite fast off the mark with new communication stuff, but not here.
There’s already a load of praise and excitement for this micro-publishing system and I listened to a recent TWiT podcast where Leo Laporte and his friends were going on about how addictive the whole thing is. There just has to be something in it. Yet, I can’t help but feeling that unless there is a relevant reason why you want to get one-line updates of my whereabouts, mood or content of my shopping trolley, then I won’t be using this just yet.
I am wondering whether this is taking off in the US as SMS text messaging never really did. In Europe everybody took to texting years ago, and it will be interesting to see if Twitter takes off over here as much as it does in the States.
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I’m thinking that the killer app of Twitter is the ability to send group sms messages to a bunch of your friends in an easy format (this is actually quite hard to do with most mobile operating systems). However, I also wonder if this isn’t more of a US phenomenon than a European one, as you say.