The same criticisms could have been said about Facebook a few years ago, or frankly, MS-DOS or PC’s when they first came out. It’s part of the nature of disruptive innovation – it stinks at what the incumbent is great at (search, speed, stability, etc.) but does one thing really well that it difficult or impossible for the incumbent to do without starting over or abandoning some of its existing competitive advantage (instant access to info.)

Twitter has problems for sure, but it’s charting a disruptive course that represents the single biggest competitive threat to Google’s golden egg.

My main issue was being tweeted to death by Guy Kawasaki – who I think is great, I have all his books, but the volume of his RT’s (mainly about alltop) puts everyone else on Page 2. May have helped if I could just have his messages that a certain threshold were clicking through on. In the meantime, i’ve temporarily become a non-follower of his.

Also recently saw Flutter http://tinyurl.com/cob8l5 . I’m still amazed by how much context you can get in six words http://tinyurl.com/yujuap so thought it may be true.

http://tunkrank.com/

It ranks users, not tweets, but like PageRank it models attention scarcity. You can learn more about it here:

http://thenoisychannel.com/2009/01/13/a-twitter-analog-to-pagerank/

in my opinion google should think about a bank than about buying twitter. with a free of use creditcard a google-bank will know whta the user buys.

than google will know whta we search and what we buy, even they will know where we are…. why should google buy twitter to know what we think at the moment ?!

big brother is watching you

regards scott oiler

Quite a lot of the retweets borderline on SPAM, albeit some folks are better at useful “Hey, look at this”. Maybe there should be a PageRank for Tweets that uses the RT in vs RT out ratio (or a users propensity to RT per day) to order my list…

So I did a few Google searches. A found a ton of beta codes, some which had been posted to forums just a day or two prior. Great… except they had all been used up. I kept digging, but by the time a beta code appeared in a Google search, it was used up.

So, I thought… what’s faster than Google?

A search on Summize (now Twitter search) gave me a beta code that had been posted just a few hours before and I was in after a few minutes.

Whether it’s Twitter or Facebook successors, there will be ways to capture and learn from what we’re doing now and that will have value. Scoff and let others figure it out.

As a somewhat of a side note, I think twitter is already crashing (utility wise) under its own weight. Signal to noise ratios have plummeted and the whole thing will resemble CB Radio in the 70’s soon. I like it, but it don’t work when everyone’s playing (not to mention gaming it).