"If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?"
We can’t entrust Twitter with the future of the real-time web
Twitter is an important development. The ability of individual users to pool their efforts to essentially document, minute by minute, every day on an Internet-connected planet Earth, is an amazing gift...... a snapshot of humanity on a speed and scale that we’ve never known in the past. .... It is either a broadcast network for brands, which happens to host conversations of individuals, or it’s a platform for discussion in which brands can take part, just like the rest of usTrees were still falling fine before Twitter came along.
I am not at all opposed to Twitter monetizing. Twitter should make money so it can keep the service free and improve on it.
There was not only one email service. There was not only one Instant Messenger. But there is only one Twitter. I find that amazing. How do you explain that?
