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@5 alarm music - done!
I blogged about exactly the same topic today. The first thing I recommend clients consider when thinking about Twitter marketing is to ask their clients and prospects if they Twitter. If you get blank stares it might be best to hold off for now.....
I think Twitter is a great and fun site...It has a lot of potentials...also the people there are pretty friendly and helpful.
@Bhupesh Shah - you got it!
Mike,
Our <A HREF="
http://twitter.com/LAFD">agency experiment</A> has proven that success with Twitter is limited only by your imagination.
Thanks for the always enjoyable site!
Respectfully Yours in Safety and Service,
Brian Humphrey
Firefighter/Specialist
Public Sercice Officer
Los Angeles Fire Department
to be a twitter user is really cool
Twitter is definitely catching on, it is another tool to add to promo arsenal. It speaks highly to web 2.0 and the future of marketing.
I just visited your site by chance on the normal web crawl we do nightly and got stuck listening to and watching your "make your site a marketing machine" video presentation,. Excellent job, well done, it has helped me and whilst listening i could not help but make the changes, not all obviously, its taken me 5 years tio get we we are in a very competative industry, we WILL become clients of yours this year!
Hi Mike Volpe,Great Information.
Thanks
Awesome article. I'm definitely atwitter about Twitter as I see it as a simple, easy way to blog without getting glassy eyed at the computer. It's a terrific marketing and PR tool that can be fun in the process!
We feel that twitter is so easy to use and it offers so much potential for marketing on a budget
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Dave Winer, father of RSS says “Twitter, as it was conceived, was never meant to live.”
“It’s very possible with better engineering its architecture might have gone on for a few more years, but eventually it would have hit this wall, where there were too many people posting too many twits to too many followers. The scale of the system as conceived rises exponentially.”
So is the end of Twitter getting near? I hope not. Twitter I hope that you are listening and you better start taking things more seriously.
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Here's my two cents.
For instance there are about 100m users of yahoo messenger and usually 2-3 of them talk at a time that means scalability of 300m conversations. On the other hand with 100m twitter users who usually send messages to 100-10,000 other users the scalability required is 10,000m to 10^6m I have never known any current architecture based on webservers to handle such a scale. So according to me Twitter was never meant to live. It is like a concept car that will never see production. Users of twitter don't understand this and they don't care.
They don't know whats happening when the website is down. The sad part is that the best analysts claim that Twitter is a billion dollar company in one year of operations. There is an old saying before the days of when people understood permutation combinations. One peasant asked a king to give him rice equal to the total amount gotten by placing double the number of rice grains on a chess square than the previous square, starting with one rice grain. There are 8x8=64 squares. We seriously need to visit grade 7 mathematics.
I know of only one News/Messaging system that supports around 1 billion users sending messages to all 1 billion users each. Thats a scalability of 10^12m. It is not Web based but rather on a massively scalable serverless P2P architecture based. The team is soft spoken and when I last talked to them I was told that they don't care about money or hype or fame but rather for just the passion of next generation global systems that will stand the test of worldwide use. Its called Mermaid News <a href="
http://mermaid.metaaso.com"> Mermaid </a>
They have other softwares too but this post is about Twitter and Messaging. Once everyone comprehends basic mathematics that goes behind scalable algorithms they would go past the flashy screen and hype to actually want a system they can trust. To the analysts I would say it is easy to create a business plan, create a hype and raise $20m funding it is far more difficult to create something of use.