The slightly pointless do they-don’t they argument rumbles on.
The ‘how I use twitter’ comments from yer average (older) user are more revealing than the piece itself. Within the (albeit self-selecting) tech crunch audience, twitter is all about professional networks and link-sharing. Facebook is the preferred tool for status updates and communicating with friends.
What happened to using twitter to ‘answer one simple question’ and the ideas of ‘peripheral knowledge’ and ‘ambient awareness’ and all those things that were originally so attractive about twitter? If people stop using it as it was originally intended, what does that mean for its killer quality (as far as I’m concerned), which is realtime search. What does it mean for all those lovely emotional mapping tools like twistori and bigspaceship’s hope vs despair?
Twitter becomes a niche tool and and Facebook conquers all…
