How Twitter will change the way we live

by Robin Grant in News on 7 June 2009 at 16:49 Google+
Time magazine's cover story on Twitter

Time magazine’s cover story on Twitter:

There is something even more profound in what has happened to Twitter over the past two years, something that says more about the culture that has embraced and expanded Twitter at such extraordinary speed. Yes, the breakfast-status updates turned out to be more interesting than we thought. But the key development with Twitter is how we’ve jury-rigged the system to do things that its creators never dreamed of.

In short, the most fascinating thing about Twitter is not what it’s doing to us. It’s what we’re doing to it.

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  • http://tedshelton.blogspot.com tshelton

    Robin:

    I completely agree – I think that this is a big missing part of the way many people think about Twitter. They mistake the twitter.com interface for the thing which you and I think of as the product.

    Twitter is a message bus and a historical database – building on top of these two infrareucture components is where the enormous value creation is going to occur, both for twitter and for the rest of us.

  • http://twitter.com/nQuo nQuo

    the cover is genius.

  • http://www.volume.co.uk/ George Boyter

    It reminds me of a time when I worked on a drinks brand. Doing 'fieldwork' really was revealing the wondrous ingenuity of Joe Public in mixing drinks and creating conncoctions. Same with twitter

  • http://www.volume.co.uk/ George Boyter

    It reminds me of a time when I worked on a drinks brand. Doing 'fieldwork' really was revealing the wondrous ingenuity of Joe Public in mixing drinks and creating conncoctions. Same with twitter