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Open your life - the Twitter Effect

Categorías: fer-martin.blogspot.com, Japon, empresas, Tecnología, Personal, web 2.0 — 02/12/07

Hi guys!

I recently found another web 2.0 application that it may seem quite silly in the beggining… but it’s worth a try. What is Twitter? Well, Twitter is a new site that provides real-time blogging with really short posts and a strong social network. It’s like a live diary for you to share with the world, or just with your friends.

Is it a new idea? Absolutely not. It doesn’t have any new technology at all. I think this website can be cloned in less than 24h with ruby on rails, excluding the CTO-side of the project to handle so many requests as they do. Then we need to find what makes this site special enough to be mentioned here.

Ok, if it’s not the technology, what makes Twitter so good? The social side of Twitter is very interesting. I have found really important people in there (Bill Clinton (Former US President), Joi Ito (THE internet man in Japan), Steve Jobs (Apple’s president) or even the guys from Adaptive Path (the fathers of AJAX…). In Spain, we have mini.d, fernand0 (Barrapunto) or even kirai blogging real-time. We love to know what people like that are doing, and so there is people always wondering what they would be up to. A Famous People Big’s Brother!!

I think blogs like Joi Ito, or even Martin Varsavsky (FON founder) are really popular because they give us a dream to look at. They live a life of private jets, talking with the most interesting people every day and always keeping positive and happy. Their blogs are a streamline of their lifes and this makes other people -who admire them- really have a motivation to do more things.

I set up an experiment in this blog, I’m going to post real-time bits of my life on the right-hand sidebar. Named Geekly as “Fer’s Core Dump”, I will try to keep you posted more often there. I’ve seen people posting just about their life, but I think it’s much better to share about things you like, music you just found or even spreading a bit of gossip from time to time ;-)

Now it’s your turn! What is the Twitter effect for you? Do you have any interesting use for Twitter? Do you think it’s just a waste of time? Are you going to tweet soon?


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