Thursday, June 25, 2009

What if we actually used Twitter for what it was intended for. Boring.

Here is a pop quiz: Can you tell off the top of your head what the whole premise of Twitter is ? It is expressed in four black bold words on the home page. My guess is that a lot of people that use the service don’t have a clue as to what they are.

“What are you doing?”

Did you know that ? It is not - “Let’s market our business online” or “Here is a link to a funny pic LOL” or “The policemen in Iran are meanies”. The founding fathers of the big TW in the cloud wanted to build a service where friends could respond to that eternal question that the beer commercial presented to us many years ago : “Wassssup?”

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