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It’s interesting to see a news channel covering the Twitter hype. Mark Kuznicki was interviewed about Twitter, so I thought I’d at least share the link. I like to see Twitter in the news. Good job!
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Twitter Hacks, Twitter News
Silicon Valley is abuzz over a new mini-blogging service for mobile phones that some predict will be a mass-market hit with the reach of a YouTube or MySpace.
Over the past two weeks, Twitter has attracted the sort of hyperbole the Valley reserves for its next internet darling – though such self-reinforcing adulation also led to dotcom mania.
Jonathan Schwartz, chief executive of Sun Microsystems, singled Twitter out at the end of last week as the latest hit from the post-YouTube generation of “viral� internet applications that have the potential to attract massive online audiences.
Read Mini-blog is the talk of Silicon Valley for the full story.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, Financial Times
Though she already has a blog, a podcast and a character in the virtual world of Second Life, Kera Richard has recently become obsessed with a new online tool for connecting with friends. For the past three weeks, she has joined the crowds on Twitter.com, a site that invites everyone to answer the question: “What are you doing?”
“I didn’t get it at first,” said the 32-year-old Randolph, N.J., project manager for a financial services company. “How much information do I really need to let the world know about me?”
But soon she was “Twittering” a dozen or more times a day, broadcasting quick, as-they-happen updates to friends who had chosen to link to her through the service. Topics ranged from her lunch (tomato soup and a pretzel) to work annoyances (a high-pitched buzz from a nearby computer). She sent updates from her office and home computers, and used her cellphone to send posts from her car and a bar at happy hour. “It became addicting very quickly,” she said.
Read the whole article: Friends Swap Twitters, and Frustration.
Technorati Tags: Twitter, WSJ, Wall Street Journal