Charles Cooper at CNET has a great post about Twitter, their recent services glitches and comparisons to the heyday of AOL, when it was all the rage.
Twitter is definitely taking off like a rocket ship lately, and the real question is where the ship is headed and how sustainable it is, after the novelty of Tweet’ing your friends from the mall wears off. Is it a viable business tool, assuming they can work out the delivery kinks? Most importantly, how will they make money (charging for enhanced services? mining and selling data?)?
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It certainly is an interesting phenomenon. The speed at which it has grown has been exciting to watch.