an amusing & insightful look at Chat Roulette RT@iboy --guys outnumber girls almost 5:1 Wonder why??
The early adopters in my network have all heard about Foursquare, and Gowalla and My Town. Launched in March 2009, it was called the "breakout mobile app at SXSW by Mashable (http://mashable.com/2009/03/16/foursquare/), the adoption rate has been astounding, first by users and now by brands such as Bravo and Zagat. And I'm sure that trend will continue, notwithstanding the fear of advertising that your home is empty and can easily be robbed (http://pleaserobme.com/). More and more people will soon be getting sucked into what Peter Shankman states in his post, "2010--The Year of FourSquare?", the "black tar" that is Foursquare. However, I have noticed e-tailers are lagging behind, and I have a great solution for them. Just recently I added a few books to my wish list at Amazon, and I thought it would be great to share that on Twitter and Facebook. To do so, I had to open a new tab, copy and paste the link to the book and type the text that I just added such and such to my wish list. It's really a no brainer that there should be a share button on that Amazon page, and similar pages from all e-tailers. Why not share that you added a movie to your netflix queue. Or that you just purchased new boots from Zappos. Of course in the vein of http://www.pleaserobme.com, I would not recommend tweeting you just purchased a 50' LCD television or brand new Rolls Royce. Continuing with that model, power users---not just appointed bloggers-- would get badges and discounts, and tell their friends/followers about great deals Leveraging brand advocates to reinforce their loyalty and spread the news is what social media is all about. Seems like a no brainer to me, and it's not necessary to forge an alliance with Foursquare, as they already have large customer bases. Just saying...
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With over 500,000 users, and 6 check ins per second, as opposed to foursquare's 1 check in per second, this come from behind geo location app may over take foursquare. After playing with it for a few days, it's basically Farmville for the phone, a most odious idea. At this point, with my inbox stuffed with emails from Twitter, Facebook and now foursquare and Gowalla, the last thing I need is another tool telling me where someone is. Read more here; http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/14/AR2010011403377.html
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This is bad, really bad. The man’s name in question is “Harman Bajwa” — Remember his name is literally Harman...Read more...
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Although this article (http://bit.ly/4IRvTy) has a sensationalist subhead, there is only one line in the article that relates to that statement. I quote "our research shows that even more than Twitter, people are using social network status updates -- mostly Facebook -- for these same sorts of connections."
This is a theme I've been exploring for a couple of months now. Here's my original post from Nov. 11: Is Facebook the inevitable social portal? http://tinyurl.com/yjgv9ppPut simply, Twitter is going to go away. It's easy to figure out how to use it, but most folks can't figure out why to use it. Having been on twitter for almost two years, I love it but I notice the adoption rate over that time, despite Ashton Kutscher, is nothing compared to the rise in Facebook users. People get Facebook..it's about friends. Twitter is about business.
I have no doubt that Facebook will absorb all of Twitter's functionality soon; they just incorporated the retweet feature. And doubtless, everyone on Twitter already has a Facebook page. In fact, one person I follow, Matt Singly (@mattsingley) who has 32,000 followers on Twitter, posts to both Facebook and Twitter simultaneously.
That is the future.
We will tire of maintaining multiple tools. When I can port my fellow Tweeters to Facebook, and maintain those connections there, I will do so, I just hope I'll be able to retain the conversations and friends I've met on Twitter, because they represent a very diverse amalgam of brilliant, educated, humorous people and and I will miss them if they go away completely.
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