I don’t get it. Why would I waste my time looking to see what small things in life are happening to people? If it was important, wouldn’t they call/email/text me? On the other end of the spectrum, who is writing these twitter posts? Why devote time to a program revolving around single sentence statements?
The website states three examples of why I should use twitter:
1. Eating soup? Research shows that moms want to know.
2. Running late to a meeting? Your co–workers might find that useful.
3. Partying? Your friends may want to join you.
However, text messaging is more direct and universal for each case.
1 – My mom has a phone and is rarely on a computer;
2 – My co-workers have computers and phones, I don’t have a smartphone so taking the time to twitter would increase my tardiness;
3 – The majority of my friends have cellphones but won’t have or ever get twitter. so why not just send one mass text message for parties?
My friends all have phones, so I can call/text them without the need for twitter. (Also, you can now try sending text messages through your gmail account; so google, as it is to most companies, is a serious threat to any sort of traction twitter may have gained)
While bored at work, I look at people’s away messages on G-mail, Facebook, and AIM. If these three applications somehow fell apart and no longer existed, then I could see a need for Twitter.
What really surprises me is the amount of hype and funding they get.
Series C – 15 Million? Why? How does this site plan on making money? What useful service do they provide that facebook and gmail don’t already provide for me? And what is stopping facebook or gmail from providing it?
After this financial crisis, I bet the venture capital firms wish they could have a do-over.
