First thing I will point out is the neglect of including complimentary blue shoulder-birds when becoming a Twitizen!

Anyway, on to business. As most of you have stated before me, many weren’t aware of this platform. I, myself, had been the last of friends to indulge on the scene. Then again, I turned out feeling like a hypocrite after talking so much crap to them about how dumb it was. It’s fun, admit it, you will survive. Besides, along with Twitter and your tweets comes the feeling that your aren’t putting on a ‘front’ for all of your 900+ friends on facebook to then get judged on how many ‘likes’ you receive. Twitter seems more of a tighter community to me, you know, networking with people you actually come in contact with on a regular basis or actually know! I only follow people I care to hear from, you don’t have to read peoples thoughts against your will like on facebook! Pretty revolutionary if you ask me.

In reference to Johnson’s TIME article, the whole #hackedu is comical to me. Comical … and genius? I understand thinking people outside of your corporate office would have no input worth entertaining, but then again I also understand that there actually could and would be input worth researching. My interest spiked once reading that the topic was still flourishing months after the conference, but why didn’t they incorporate this into their outcome? Why didn’t they think to do this before the conference instead of letting the individuals that where INSIDE the conference have a tweet-arguement. Are they wearing ties for a reason or to just put on a #facebookfront (yep, figured that be a good trend due to my earlier FB comparison) that they know what they’re doing? Anyway, the idea, or this act, I feel needs to happen more. The simple fact of getting feedback from ones that only care enough to take time to input on it … makes those opinions more truthful.

Now that I’ve vented, my perspective on this platform is straight forward. It will grow, and then it well fall to the hands of a new player just like everything else has in the past. The only thing that I feel would prevent the fall of Twitter is the fact they have so many outside organizations and companies tied within them that will be the sole ingredient to the successful long-ball Twitter will play. I could be wrong, Twitter still has yet to reach its peak with popularity. It has the celebrities, now it just needs to get all of the FB users to come back down from their “make myself sound really cool on the net” phases. Twitters a diary, with the side of connectivity to make you feel content with basically talking/venting/asking a website without the worry of not getting a reply from a follower. Then again, there is some pretty outlandish stuff on Twitter as well that makes me “smh”, but what can you do? I don’t know either, but certainly including a hashtag for every word used in a tweet certainly isn’t the best move. So many people not included on Twitters payroll, like Johnson said, are the ones actually making progress for the state of the platform. Like he said, the Summize integration is a key aspect that makes Twitter thrive, and it’s from an outside party. I hope I’m wrong about a new player coming onto the scene, I’d be content with Twitter holding the place and becoming second best thing to Google. Or take over Google too, go big or go home.