Hello. My name is Jonathan, and I am addicted to Twitter.
Seriously, I love this tool. Being able to communicate with amazing people I’d never otherwise meet brings both my personal and business lives to a new level, and is immensely satisfying. But Twitter is definitely not “chat.” If more than 140 characters need to be traded, there’s IM/Email/Phones for that. So it’s great for the quick “hey everyone on the internet, where can I get this?” kind of questions and thoughts.
I’m interested to see what happens as Twitter grows and evolves, and also as the VCs funding it decide, “Hey, it’s about time you guys make some money!” As Twitter grows their ability to detect and follow trends (which is demonstrated lately with Election 2008 coverage) the ability to place highly targeted ads in real time based upon what you tweet offers up some interesting marketing opportunities; that is the ads could change as your tweets and conversations change. On that note, as long as it’s kept in check I can’t imagine that Twitter would see a mass exodus of users following the introduction of ads, so hopefully there’s a decent business model in their future.
Folllow me at http://www.twitter.com/jakressaty
I agree with you that Twitter is not a chat (I wonder if you find my tweets to be too chatty). I’ve read a few articles about Twitter saying they have a business model they’ll be implementing in Spring 2009. I’m interested to see those statments come to fruition.