Nov 22, 2009

Twitter Week in Review: What's Happening?

Busy week for the twitter folks. While no major bombshells, you can see their gradual evolution taking shape. Here are some notes from the past week:

  • They no longer care "what you're doing", but now wonder "What's happening?". Moving away from personal status.
  • Going geo-loco. Yes, the world is going crazy for location based information. Now I'll know where you are when you're boring me.
  • And here come the ads. But they're cool right? Much like french horn players, ads are incapable of being cool.

Enjoy your last days of non-commercialized twittering.

Nov 22, 2009 4:46:30 PM

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