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I was just posting my thoughts about the whole Facbook vs Myspace debate on Techchrunch when I decided to share it with you instead. Facebook is continuing to see explosive growth whilst Myspace flounders… the numbers for both are still phenomenal but questions are being asked about what Myspace can do to return to its [...]
Despite the insane media coverage in the last few months, I’m not really a twitter convert. Or wasn’t, I should say.
Sure, I got how it could help brands connect to their customers, how news stories could break there in real time, how it keeps people in touch, and the rest of it, but mainly I thought it was a overhyped fad full of the inane ramblings of egomaniacs.
That all changed today, when I realised the full potential of the service after manipulating the data pushed out by the service, using the twitter API. I started thinking about what could be done with twitter mashups and came up with the following random thoughts:
There’s conversations, lots of them
The crux of twitter - people pushing out small nuggets of text (less than 140 characters) they consider noteworthy and others deeming it interesting enough to interrupt their day. A quick search on twitter will show just how much noise there is, but different people find value in different things. There is however, no doubt that valuable conversations are going on outside the network of people you follow - and this is where mashups come in.
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