Twitter is the bubbles, not the bath
Q: what will be the first twitter post to get picked up on techmeme and who will post it?
I answered that Twitter was itself a conversation aggregator of sorts. Actually, I said:
Twitter is the bubbles, not the bath.
Fred is right in thinking that some Tweets will be newsworthy, especially in crisis situations, but for the most part, aggregating those conversations needs to happen in real-time, like with Track, a feature that allows you to follow keywords.
This results in affinity groups forming around keywords which represent concepts and memes.
If the aggregation isn’t in real-time for a service like Twitter, it has lost a lot of its steam.
Jun 10 2008 11:33 am |
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