3 reasons why Twitter has almost peaked
Don’t get me wrong, I love Twitter. I use it almost every day. But here are a few reasons I think Twitter may have maxed out it’s popularity at the 
moment. Hopefully Twitter is working hard to prove me wrong. Sidenote: I think Twitter search is here to stay and is changing the game of news distribution.
- College students aren’t using it (for the most part). College students are the trend-setters. Just look at Facebook. They’ve been on it forever. They started the revolution. Those college students are going to graduate and very few are going to start tweeting.
- It get’s too noisy. Once you start following over 100 people it gets a little overwhelming. Information overload.
- The advertising by businesses is going to turn some people off. People want to be connected relationally to other people…not to businesses.
What do you think? Are you using Twitter now, will you continue?
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I wonder if students will begin to adopt it after college as it does seem like the heavy users are twenties and thirties. Part of it is that facebook seems to co-opt so many of twitter's key features (mentions, public updates, following celebrities/organizations). As facebook opens up, it will be interesting to see if twitter is still necessary.
However, the news ability is still unique to twitter and, like you said, may be it's killer app. Anecdote: My parents had been down to Hoover Dam a month ago and had pictures of the new bridge going over the gorge down there. I wanted to see recent pictures and google wasn't turning up much for me. Hello, twitter. Lots of pictures that were taken within the last week, a few within the last 24 hours. It's the tweets plus the pics. Facebook couldn't have done that as far as I'm aware. Maybe flickr, etc., but really easy to find on twitter.
You're right about facebook co-opting all the key features….those facebook people are smart.
I definitely don't think Twitter is going away, but I think it's still trying to find it's main usefulness. But maybe that's what's cool about Twitter is that you can use it for so many different things. The thing I love about twitter is the ability to give me info and for me to post info. With a killer 3rd party app like Tweetie or Tweetdeck it so stinking easy to attach a link or picture, and it's so easy to search for things and engage others in conversation. And hashtags at conferences or about certain topics are not going away.
The bigger question in my mind is how much effort should our staff give to leveraging these tools for the Kingdom of God?