Ian Betteridge on the Why of Twitter, Jaiku et. al.
Ian Betteridge writes Twitter, Jaiku, and the future of microblogging.
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This of course misses the point: Twitter, Jaiku and the like are partially interrupt-driven, rather than being pull media like a web site. This aspect of these services is about getting updates from your friends instantly, without having to be constantly checking, checking, and re-checking a site. If I wanted to have to check what my friends were doing, then I’d look to their blogs.