Twitter: Cool but Unreliable?
From the dialogue between two Norse ‘linguists’ on the language of the Bjarmaland people, Örvar-Odds Saga, ca. 13th century:
‘Skilr þú hér nokkut mál manna?’ sagði Oddr. ‘Eigi heldr en fuglaklið,’ sagði Ásmundr.
‘Do you know anything about the language of these people?’ asked Oddr. ‘No more than the twittering of birds,’ said Ásmundr.
Twitter is pretty hot: TIME magazine, as reported on their site, said: “Twitter is on its way to becoming the next killer app.”
Indeed, being a late adopter I have just recently realized what we got with Twitter: a 1-to-many free SMS solution! The only bummer is a need for everyone to sign up, but hey, we need to give something back to Twitter, like our names and head count.
Once I realized the beauty of the system (and I have been thinking for some time – especially after our brainstorming seminar – of an easy way to organize SMS groups, as my wife have been asking me – since “you are in mobile communications” – to help her connect people in NGO sector), I have started to organize a group of my followers.
At the same time I have also started to read more about Twitter. And got upset with news that Twitter is unreliable at best.
Shall we help them with scalability?
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