Twitter Town Hall?
Seems to be a familiar pattern. A really rockingly useful service is launched in somebody’s kitchen, and after a bit of initial hesitation, all the early adopters jump in and with them, the API gets thoroughly rinsed and spun. For a while, everything is wonderful. Then as the crowd that follows the early majority start plunging in and Scoble, Hawk et al blog and digg and whatever else it is they do, the lovely useful service starts falling over. Databases fail, servers can’t handle the traffic, bandwidths are not wide enough or bandy.
Looks like Twitter is sitting squarely at this point now. The Web2 crowdsourcer of choice for the Birmingham Bloggernuts and the Newcastle BarCampers is being hammered all around the blogland, and ironically enough on its own service, for um, being down a lot.
Probably time for Google to buy them, isn’t it? For gazillions of dollars?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if for once, one of these startups came up with a better business model that allowed them to stay relatively stable without going all anodyne and corporate, and with it, borderline rude and inaccessible? That one or two of the many thousands of these creative devs could get together in a back yard or over the garage and make something work without big fat cheques? WordPress seems to manage it ok.
If you’re still thinking wtf is Twitter for, exactly? Join up, add some people you know irl and find out. And try these: Twhirl, Hashtags, xFruits and the Fb app that links your Tweets to your status update.
Not only but also:
made by Pete
made by Jon
Think we need one for On the Metro? Sam, Alex?
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