Why is Twitter getting so much hype?
When I first heard of Twitter, I thought to myself, what on earth are these people thinking? Why would anyone use such a service? I have 4 different instant messengers and I am already overloaded and now there is microblogging… No offence to Twitter – it was due to my lack of insight. However, after using Twitter, I do find that Twitter is a pretty cool tool. But why?
1) You can receive Twitter on your Mobile!
2) It can potentially reach a mass audience (Twitter was used during the California Bush fires and Barak Obama used it in the upcoming US Elections)
3) You can choose to follow anyone on Twitter
With these 3 reasons, Twitter is a great service… Mobile phone is something almost every adult in developed country has and bringing selected updates from people to your mobile makes communication more streamlined and responsive. This is clearly showed by the LA Fire department twitter service. If anyone thinks twitter is the same as facebook or instant messengers, then you are wrong. The differentiating factor is mobile convergence.
On a side note, Twitter is built on Ruby on Rails. So if anyone says Ruby is not scalable, look at Twitter… They are hammered with data from all over the world and they are doing just fine. =)
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