MicroBlog tool http://twitter.com/

from Obvious Corp (later renamed Twitter)

launched Mar21'2006

I joined Mar15'2007 (right after its big splash at SXSW), number 1,239,971 https://twitter.com/billseitz (first tweets)

• my thread of threads

Old notes

RemoteWikiURL http://search.twitter.com/search?q=

the re-invention of Finger for Presence Detection - integrated with the web, Instant Messaging, and SMS

Apr'2010 - http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/this_is_what_a_tweet_looks_like.php

Apr'2008: has 200k users active in the last week?

Twitter Vision is a pretty wild GeoTag app.

http://twitter.pbwiki.com/

Search Engine for tweets:

• Tweet Scan http://www.tweetscan.com

• Summ Ize http://summize.com

Original Jack Dorsey sketch , original idea started in 2000. One night in July of that year I had an idea to make a more "live" Live Journal. Real-time, up-to-date, from the road. Akin to updating your AIM status from wherever you are, and sharing it.

Mar'2008: Common Craft video http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter

Merlin Mann tweets Twitter is Golf for Nerds

Good for a Full Time Network? 2004-04-03-FullTimeNetwork

open API - http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-development-talk/web/api-documentation - if wanting to build decentralized Twitter (Open Social Networking Model), would you clone this?

• Jul'2007 top (interesting) 10 apps

• Nov'2007 most used apps gives sense of usage of SMS/Instant Messaging.

• http://twitter.pbwiki.com/Apps

how/why do people use it

• what they write

  • ambient status messages: original intent (see Jack Dorsey quote above)

    • this is where Mobile comes in

  • LinkBlog (plus promote own blog posts)

  • disposable Live Blogging, with possibility of conversation (during debates, big conference speeches)

  • LazyWeb requests (mainly for info/resources, not for someone to build something)

  • other disposable MicroBlog, Brain Fart-s

  • art: haiku/poetry, Game Playing with constraints (e.g. Paul Ford 6-word notes)

  • replies to other tweets: Live Chat

• what/who/why they read

  • keep fuzzy sense of what their Social Network is up to on personal level

    • esp those who don't have blogs? I suspect vast majority of Twitter users, for now, have blogs.

  • hear important news faster than even Blogosphere

Too important to be controlled by 1 company? Possibility of Open Twitter?