Comments on: Twitter has something Google doesn’t – immediacy

By: Billigflug

Billigflug — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:36:46 +0000

Twitter is awesome, just because of the point you mentioned in your last sentence. It is a WEB2.0 tool, that let you be a part of global conversation. Google is a WEB1.0 search engine. That’s it.

By: Derek

Derek — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:46:28 +0000

Agree with the article completely. Like Scott though, I would also like to point out that that the true potential of Twitter and the sense of immediacy is very much dependent on the number of contacts "following" you. I enjoy Twitter as both a social outlet and sandbox for open questions though. You can’t turn to Google for real life replies within minutes.

By: Scott Jenson

Scott Jenson — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:20:35 +0000

Interesting but you fail to mention that you have over 1800 followers! Of course you can get answers to interesting questions, you’ve got an army of friends to help you! The real question is how does this scale? Can we all get an army of people that will answer questions for us? What happens if we all start asking questions? Twitter sometimes reminds me of a pyramid scheme (but a nice friendly one…

Of course your Search example of Twitter is spot on and I completely agree with you there. In this case, you’re tapping into the collective core, something accessible to everyone.

By: Chris Palmieri

Chris Palmieri — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:01:47 +0000

Slightly off topic, but I recommend giving that Silverlight plugin a try. I groaned too when I first saw that I needed to install *two* plugins, but my jaw dropped at the live streaming picture quality of Obama’s speech, with very few hiccups, even from here in Tokyo. The experience made it hard to watch YouTube videos for a few days afterwards.