Twitter: SMS for the Web?

Twitter got a good rap from the NY Times and has been questioned by Steve Collins (who saw the good of it a few days later).

I was talking to my colleague and friend Matthew Hodgson a couple of days ago about Twitter who came up with a good analogy that works for me: Twitter is SMS for the web.

I like it. Like SMS, Twitter is easy. Like SMS, Twitter is used for “where I am at the moment, honey” and “one quick question” messages. Unlike SMS, they are not stored and indexed - maybe this is a good thing, or maybe like google cha messages they should be recorded. Thoughts?


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2 Responses to “Twitter: SMS for the Web?”


  1. 1 Stephen Collins

    Yep, and now I’m hooked.

    BTW, storage and searchability for Twitter by claiming it at Technorati.

  2. 2 AndrewBoyd

    Thanks for the tip, Steve :) That was the one missing piece of the puzzle. Now if Google bought Twitter and offered calendar integration with MyGADS, mmmm, shiny :)

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