In order to fully participate and get something out of it, you have to fully engage with your twitter-stream, and furthermore, find people who are similarly willing to do so.

I consider myself a bit of an early adopter, and its taken me something like a year to really “get” it (I was blogging about this almost a year ago, actually, and my initial posts said I didn’t get it).

Now, granted, perhaps digital “natives” will have a shorter lead in / run in time, but its one thing that might work against greater uptake of this kind of service.

But, hey, you never know, I guess — particularly, if, as you say, some of bigger servicess pick up on this.

Cheers
t @ dji

He loved The Well, which was very popular in the 80s and early 90s, but now most people online have never used it or even heard of it. He loved Hotwired. Gone. He loves all the aspects of virtual communities, and this I pretty much share with him.

There’s no doubt in my mind that one to many broadcast IM will stick around. But there is also no doubt in my mind it will never ever be as popular as e-mail or one-to-one instant messaging/texting.

There is some considerable doubt in my mind whether Twitter survives. I think it far more likely that if there’s any kind of mainstream acceptance of Twitter style one-to-many broadcast IM, it will be built-in to existing IM platforms (AIM, Yahoo Messenger, etc) or whatever those platforms evolve into.

“Woah”, indeed!

Cheers
t @ dji