Comments on: 5 Reasons Why Google Should Fear (or Buy) Twitter

By: Alex Schleber

Alex Schleber — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:58:27 +0000

This is an excellent post, and I just excerpted the "librarian" metaphor to my Posterous, and thereby on to all my Twitter peeps. BTW @Roger, Twitter having the IM/chat aspect mashed up with email/blog-like/commenting asynchronous features is exactly the reason for Twitters success. As the post mentions, the crowd-sourced aggregator/guide function that Twitter users are naturally/effortlessly fulfilling is exactly what other crowd-sourced "search" tools like Mahalo have failed to resoundingly deliver. Twitter is like a hive-mind with interesting social connection wormholes (TM). Alex Schleber’s last blog post..Is Advertising Failing On The Internet?

By: Roger Sikes

Roger Sikes — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:28:24 +0000

If Twitter can't come up with a way to proactively keep spammers from gaming the system, it'll fall by the wayside when the next big thing happens. Google will keep moving along, because they've established themselves and have done a good job of keeping search results relevant. I like Twitter, but there's a long ways to go until it's truly something that Google should fear. Besides, Twitter is like a slightly modded version of old school chatrooms (remember when you posted your chat to a page, and it refreshed to show you the most recent chats? Same thing, just hashtags and following replaces chatrooms.). Great post, by the way! It's always interesting to view the different perspectives on this. Roger Sikes’s last blog post..Southwest Airlines Rapping Attendant

By: Kashif

Kashif — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 14:24:04 +0000

Interesting thoughts but what I feel that twitter has still got a long way to go before it becomes a significant threat or even a buying option for Google.

By: Dennis Edell

Dennis Edell — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:36:00 +0000

Exactly right. Just think of the possibilities as low as a penny or even a 1/2 cent per tweet.

By: Gerald Weber

Gerald Weber — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 02:42:00 +0000

Yes indeed time will tell.