Blog 200812271840

Does twitter matter?

Saturday 27th December 2008, Harborfront Inn at Greenport, Long Island, New York.

How many twiterers are there? Does anyone know – I guess the guys at twitter know but they are not letting on. TwitterTroll has figures for the number of tweets per day and per hour and this seems to be the basis of many estimates. The speculation will be around for a long time I expect, unless twitter goes under or can find a way of monetization.

In any case twitter does seem to have caused a blossoming of associated activity, judging by the numbers of twitter connected websites and applications. If it goes down, like if GM did, there would be a radiating collapse of these associated apps.

Would you care? Is twitter an important part of on-line life or just an addiction what do you think?