Waiting in the grocery aisle to buy all my organic vegetables ;) I was in SHOCK & AWE to see this as Time's COVER story. The worlds most respected and wildly circulated news weekly and a magazine which, he who shall not be named wrote some brilliant features for at one time. Anyways, it's largely a fluff piece IMO (being a social media expert in training): Scoble & Louis Gray (et al) have trounced many of the points made time and again here on FriendFeed or maybe they have more to reply as to this piece. So here for your perusal:
- sofarsoShawn
"The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me...
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- sofarsoShawn
True, it definitely is for the novitiate, but I've recognized most that FFers are higher up on the "Social Media Exper"t scale.
- sofarsoShawn
Agreed it leaves a bad first impression. Only last summer, people would give a blank questioning (but interested) stare when you said Twitter but this skipped right past recognition of the service over to an eye-roll reaction.
- Jess
I think that reaction is justified, shrugging Twitter aside for the most part, as it is backed up. However, the general thesis/main point the article comes up with in "How it will change are lives" is in the 2nd last para and a huge item that Scoble, Gray et al have failed to explore or touch on that I know of, is with the term they use "end-user innovation" which I like MUCH better and...
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- sofarsoShawn