June 18, 2009, 08:59 AM
eMarketer writes that Twitter’s recent meteoritic rise in the media, especially with recent Time magazine cover, will soon spell doom for everyone’s darling 140-character social media service.
I don’t think so. Because of Twitter’s API and how it’s been drilled into the consciousness of anyone who’s online, I don’t think Twitter will die easily. Nor will Facebook for that matter. The use of Twitter, Facebook and other social media to coordinate protests in Iran proves my point. There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Link: Time to Write Twitter’s Tombstone?
March 09, 2009, 08:20 AM
Today my friend Aaron Clinger and I launched a project called TweepRoll. The idea for the site came about when my friend Kate and I were talking about celebrities who use Twitter. She said she could see how reading celebrities’ tweets could totally suck her into the Twitterverse. Later in the day it dawned on me that a lot of other people would feel the same way, so I started sketching out a site for the Twitter-lurker, the curious, the toe-dipper.
In the days and weeks after thinking about this idea I kept reading news items about celebrity twitterers. From The New York Times to Entertainment Weekly, Twitter and the famous people who use them were going mainstream.
I brought my genius developer friend Aaron into the project and we designed, built and launched TweepRoll in three weeks. It’s been a really fun side project for us and I hope you enjoy it!
