Posted on Wednesday, 22nd July 2009 by Bill Bean
Remember when people said the Web was a passing fad? (not Al Gore) Some think the same is true of Twitter. I hear the clue train horn sounding.
Though it’s happening less and less, I still frequently hear “I don’t get it,” with regards to the Twitter phenomenon. I think Twitter is here to stay. No doubt it will evolve but it ain’t going anywhere.
Almost every day people are coming up with new uses for social media’s newest heavyweight. Now it seems that comedians are using Twitter for more than joke material.
One of the big things I see the possibility for is using Twitter to replace bulk texting services. When Twitter is free why would you pay to send a text to a 100 people (or 10 thousand)? It seems the only current obstacle is getting people educated about the application. I know I would like to see one of the sport clubs my daughter is involved with start doing this.
What about schools using it to announce cancellations? Traffic updates would be helpful as well. What new practical uses can you see for Twitter?
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Posted in Social Media | Comments (3)
July 23rd, 2009 at 4:08 pm
I just wrote a post about a new package tracking service called PackageTracker on twitter. It’s using the tool to provide users with real-time status updates on their deliveries and plotting them on a map with Google Maps. Pretty cool!
http://www.techstartups.com/2009/07/22/real-time-services-using-real-time-twitter/
July 24th, 2009 at 9:39 am
There are many obvious practical applications of Twitter. Any information that is public, brief and timely can be easily distributed over Twitter. This includes sports scores, stock updates, breaking news headlines, promotional deals, and emergency notifications.
I think most interesting use of Twitter to come will be the movement of interaction from the private space to the public space. A few years ago, you and I might have had this conversation on a telephone or in a coffeeshop, where it would have been relatively unknown to anyone else and lost forever as it is only spoken words.
Instead, this blog and blog comment—as well as all tweets on Twitter—will be forever archived. That changes the nature of human interaction significantly, in ways we have yet to truly understand.
January 16th, 2010 at 10:56 am
I just heard a restaurant in Grand Rapids, MI setup a separate account from their normal account for reservations. People can tweet in their desired time & party. Most hostesses are in the same spot, can get computer access easily and it would be located by the reservation book. The possibilities are endless.