Last week, I wrote a post about the demise of Twitter. I didn't say it was going to be this week or in the next month, but it is something to think about. It is easy to say the first to market will win, but history has told us it is easier to make it better than make it first.
I guess one of my biggest concerns is how frivilous the medium is becoming. Case in point, when a Cat can amass over 500,000 followers, it is time to say it has jumped the shark (which is now owned by TV guide - talk about jumping the shark).
This situation has opened up an important question for me - does it matter if half of a million people follow a cat on Twitter and only 57 people follow View from W6th?
Yes and no. Yes, it might make me feel that I could be more popular. No, I like having a small amount of people that I follow and that follow me. It helps to maintain the conversation around the topics that I find useful.
The great things about social networks is that it provides people with the opportunity to connect with others who have common interests - without regard to geographic boundaries. It just seems to me that since Twitter does not have any form of categorization, it has allowed for the fusion of work and play. I know, for a great deal of techies it is the same thing.
I just wonder how scalable that method becomes. You can see people try to impose order through self-generated categories on tools like Twellow. At some point, will Twitter just become background noise that we will want to turn off?
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