Twitter: Mobile Social… At Home, At Work, At Play?

So I had an interesting conversation with a friend of mine at lunch today.  We were kind of discussing the adoption possibilities of technologies like Twitter.  I really didn’t see how it would gain wide spread adoption “cross-over-appeal”.  She thought that maybe it would be a good tool for those who are not very outgoing to help them increase their social connections. I stated that for tech geeks like myself it kind of makes sense but am not sure how many others would find this very appealing.  When you get past the novelty and you think of the challenges that most of our friends and neighbors face on a day to day basis; can you really see Tweets as the new conversation revolution…

Interestingly enough this post caught my eye later in the day:

Using Twitter For Serious Stuff - Great Idea or Utter Insanity?

I am reminded of Dwayne Wade’s Fave 5 commercial where Barkley finally let’s him into his Fave 5.  Then Barkley proceeds to call him to discuss ever single detail of his life.  It went from cool to annoyance. 

Now don’t get me wrong, I love the technology.  However, I think with everything dealing with social networking; the business model challenge will be how to evolve into something that actually adds value to our social relationships and strengthens the connections we already have.

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