Tweet or not Tweet

I have been observing the rise of the Tweet world both ib main stream media and in the online world. It is quite amazing how fast it has grown in the last one or two years. There are already concerns that they don't have a good business model to make money and they still rely on private funding to operate, but no one can deny that it has become as a recognizable name as Blogging and Facebook.

I do not understand the popularity it get at all, regardless whether they can make money. A blog like this one that I am writing is a way to share ideas. Even if my writing is complete junk to the rest of the world, at least it severs as a journal for myself. Tweet is so short (I don't remember the exact limit, but it is in the range of a text message, 160 or 250 characters), nothing of significance can be communicated with it. In one way it is a reversed text messaging, which receivers select the senders instead of senders select receivers. Maybe that is the appeal to businesses, because it removes the the worry that people get pissed off of getting non-illicited ads. The good thing about such an subscribed ad. service is that it is more organized. A typical newsletter requires the receiver to hunt down the sender's webpage or send some special command back to the mailing list, but Tweet is centralized and user and easily see all the subscriptions and remove the ones they don't want. Maybe that's the business model they should go after.

-- Wen from phone