Category Archives: twitter

Twitter Lemmings

May
18
2007

Did Twitter Jump the Shark

It was a little amazing last night (WST-AU) Twitter had been a little flaky, but at least it was operational. Then “it” started, someone was talking about alternatives to Twitter. Slowly but surely people went and checked out Jaiku, signed up, collected their friends, of course this meant more of their friends signed up as well. The wave of Jaiku signup spam started to lap my email inbox. Within 12 hours my lonely old Jaiku account had gone from 5 odd contacts on Jaiku to a modest 40 odd. It was just amazing to see the power of the peer group. People not wanting to be left out, not wanting to be out of the loop, just in case people did migrate to Jaiku. Often the Jaiku sign up was followed by the statement:

Is This The End of Twitter?

May
15
2007

Have the cats disconnected Twitter?

It’s happened before, several times now, and it will happen again. We have had Odeo, SlashDot, Kiko and Friendster. A new social networking style site is the darling of the Internet world, the word on the A-listers lips. Then they couldn’t scale, they couldn’t maintain the traffic and interest that they had generated and the people, the users, walk. Whether it’s because of hardware or software issues or just bad business planning is another matter. But the core is they ignored several key business rules for web startups.

Top Twitter Mobile Phone Applications

Apr
21
2007

Twitter goes Mobile

Well Twitter is well over a year old now and pushing the edges of the G2G universe (thank you Bronwen of Perth Norg ). As expected people have found a use for this technology, from social chat, help desk functions, news broadcast, micro blogging, and storytelling. It almost seems now when you get geeks together; twitter will be topic of conversion, out come the mobile phones and the twittering begins. Point in case the Perth Webloggers Meetup this month (April 2007).

Twitter Explosion

Mar
10
2007
Explosion!

Well its SxSWi time again, and the usual suspects have descended on Austin, Texas (USA). It’s all over Twitter, Flickr, and the blogosphere already (as I watch from the sidelines). The guys from Twitter are making a big splash this year, to the point that the Twitter has been ramped up dramatically. I suspect the downtime for Twitter the other day was more on the network realign and increase in resources front than streamlining of the application. The statistics on Twitter are just amazing on the explosion of its use.