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John Dvorak wrote and interesting article regarding Twitter in pcmag.com. He compares this phenomenon with old CB radio on how it grew in popularity and then sizzle down to nothingness. Now I personally won’t compare it with the CB age but I do agree that Twitter will die out or at least lost its oomph soon.

So if you happen to live in a cave for the past year, Twitter is a micro blogging service that basically gives you the ability to send a ‘Twit’ or update via mobile texting service and limited to 140 character per update. The focus of this service is to give a user the ability to blog their activity anywhere anytime and hopefully many, many times at minuscule portions. People can subscribe to a certain blog (Or called a ‘follower’) and receive updates from the subscribe blog. Now that sounds an interesting concept but I just don’t find any merit to the concept in the long run.

The basic thing about blogging is that it gives the ability to anyone to express their paradigm. The ability for each blogger to attract readers is only limited by subject and their ability to write. So there are so many bloggers out there who are not celebrities or famous writer that became a net-celeb because of their interesting paradigm and/or witty and entertaining writing. Now I just don’t see that happening in Twitter.

With only 140 character limit I just don’t think you can define a paradigm and create interesting articles. I understand that Twitter’s point is to create micro blogs but my point is; I think that at the long run popular people in Twitter are not popular because of their Twitter entries, but because they are already popular in the first place. People like celebrities or with celebrity status can get benefits from Twitter. But for normal users I just don’t see how they can retain a continous interest with other people. And with Facebook available in mobile phones, it is only a matter of time before twitter becomes obselete.

So I think Twitter’s biggest strength and weakness is its ability to communicate people; Not everyone wants to know everything about anyone all the time.