initially I was all cynicism about twitter for it microblogging purely because I was an old skool guy and a blogger since 2004!
I thought *why wouldn't I blog 20 times a day but choose twitter to do the same?*
yeah. there is a difference! nobody has the time in the world to compose a blog post and tell a storyline! all they have time is to impress their feelings in some social web 2.0 medium..
and blogging even when integrated in god-knows-where applications/widegts isnt followed that efficiently as you would have expected....
but stuff ala twitter are designed with minute-made tracking at the unit level. Why twitter has become popular is parallel to why orkut became more popular than something like Hi5. Because more people are on Orkut, its easy to network. Same is the case with tweeter.
plus one more point i have observed is that there are a lot more credible celeb accounts in Twitter than in orkut, dont catch me saying I am reviewing twitter with orkut, just a similar line note...thats it....
i think more credible accounts is mainly due to the nature of usage that people envisage out of twitter!
I just read through Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Shashi Tharoor, Rasmus Lerdorf and a hand full of opensource geeks around the world!!! its real and you feel you are in striking distance of getting a peek at the lives of these people!!
i am actually getting engrossed into twitter much like how i spent 6 hours a day in orkut back in 2005!!!
at the same time, I dont think blogging the old-skool way (through blogger, live journal, word press) would lose its sheen. a proof is I can express so much of what I think about twitter, only in my blog and not through a tweet....hahaha... i like the way I put this!!!
twitter to its credit is also doing a lot of simplification to make tweet-ing much like a *sipping a glass of water*....and mobile technologies and mobile versions of twitter make life-infiltration more prominent!!...
web 2.0 is right here for our grabs! lets enjoy!
Godspeed.
