[USAT put a Twitter story above its Page One fold today]
I wonder if we're now at a jumped-the-shark point where younger consumers are rolling their eyes at my generation's focus on microblogging website Twitter, long after they've moved over to newer, fresher technologies.
Launched in 2006, San Francisco-based Twitter debuted in a big way in 2007 -- a lifetime in technology years -- at the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. "During the event, usage went from 20,000 tweets per day to 60,000," Wikepedia says. (It's lately averaging above 44 million a day.) "Panelists and speakers mentioned the service, and the bloggers in attendance touted it. Soon everyone was buzzing and posting about this new thing."What new technologies are your children -- or grandchildren! --talking about today? How much emphasis does your boss place on using Twitter? Post your replies in the comments section, below. E-mail confidentially to jimhopkins[at]gmail[dot-com].
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It is exactly as lame as the several months in 1999 when they had a mention of Napster and The Matrix above the fold every day.
ReplyDeleteI have three young adult children. None of them nor their friends ever latched on to Twitter. They rolled their eyes from the start. It's only user friendly for narcissists and exhibitionists, not for people who really are trying to hold a viable conversation or update.
ReplyDeleteAt some point, the avenues to communicate are too much. Twitter is just that, imo. Unless a new technology can prove itself easier, it's not likely to unseat text and facebook for the conversations and updates, respectively.
The faux trend reminds me of high school, when the uncool kids grab onto a trend early but because it comes in from that crowd, the cool kids see no reason to reduce themselves to that level. They just create the next new trend, anyway.