My Twitter Anniversary
Saturday, April 24th, 2010Today it’s been exactly a year since I’ve joined Twitter with this tweet (courtesy of MyFirstTweet). When starting I didn’t know if and how I would be using it because I was just wondering what all the fuzz was about. But as said before, I’m using and enjoying it on an almost daily basis, whether to see what people I know are up to, as a way of getting information or broadcast some of the things I find interesting. Twitter has become a big part of my web experience and to be honest, that was not something I expected when I started.
I also realized that I’ve become interested in the company itself. I read blogs that talk about the company and try to keep up with where it’s heading. Maybe the fact that the valuation of the company is so high, without them really having a source of monetization, is part of that lure too. People seem to be trusting that Twitter is the biggest thing on the web. They do they have a point with their 100 million plus users but Facebook (which I don’t use) is even bigger and some are talking about about a Twitter vs. Facebook showdown (on a side note: the tech industry seems to love these showdowns: Microsoft vs. Linux, Apple vs. Microsoft, Google vs. Yahoo, Google vs. Apple, Facebook vs. Myspace to name just a few from recent history). How it all plays out and what the future brings is still anybodies guess, fact is though that Twitter is a very interesting company and its management has a different outlook on business than many others. Maybe that’s why it’s so interesting to me because I love people/things that are somewhat different than usual.
I still believe that I don’t “get” Twitter like some others seem to do and am pretty sure there are many ways to get more out of it that I don’t know of. But I don’t care about that to be honest since I seem to be getting out of it what I want and enjoy it without it taking too much of my time. I’m guessing there will be many Twitter anniversaries in my future.
