I am skeptical about all the hype around Twitter. I like Twitter and find that it\u2019s an effective way of letting my followers know what I am up to, but it\u2019s not much more than that. It\u2019s not a great real time search engine. The information is too \u201cspammy\u201d and confusing.<\/p>\n
The hype around Twitter reminds me about the hype around SecondLife a few years ago. SecondLife has turned into a great business, but it has not revolutionized the Internet or social networking. I suspect Twitter will become a successful business as well, if only by putting Adsense around its search results.<\/p>\n
However, I have a hard time seeing it become more than that. It\u2019s just not as useful as a site like Facebook. I had a similar criticism of SecondLife. Contrarily to a game like World of Warcraft, SecondLife has no objective which makes it harder to retain user engagement.<\/p>\n
Comparing Facebook and Twitter, over 50% of Facebook\u2019s 200 million active users login every day. 60% of Twitter users stop using it after a month. I personally find Facebook much more relevant to my personal life \u2013 I like seeing pictures, relationship status changes, etc.<\/p>\n
They might confound me, but my bet is that will become a successful interesting site, but not much more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"