Analyzing my love for Twitter

Are you on Twitter?

If you are not then you are probably being left behind by the Web 2.0 boom. Here are some official stats as of March 2008:

Total Users: 1+ million
Total Active Users: 200,000 per week
Total Twitter Messages: 3 million/day

So why is everyone rushing to Twitter? There are a lot of varied opinions regarding this but personally I can compare this to the SMS (text) phenomena. The same reason why people would rather send SMS rather than call or use MMS -- ease of use, low cost and its highly effective.

People are finding it easier to share stuff using Twitter than by blogging. For example; I have just posted to Twitter: "Why Twitter than blog: ease of use, takes less time and its highly effective" rather than writing this blog article.

People then would just respond to my Twitter post rather than leaving comments on my blog and alternately I can reply back on Twitter to elaborate on my original post.

This is basically the same idea why more pro-bloggers are using Twitter to promote their articles -- Twitter is much more pro-active compared to blogs and since its being shared in real-time[1], the sense of urgency makes Twitter the most successful medium for link-baiting thus making it a perfect tool for any web enabled promotion.

Finally its fun :D

If you're like me who lived through the IRC and BBS era, the IM craze and the SMS revolution then Twitter is just another form of those.

It's all about sharing stuff which ranges from useless uttering to getting the exclusive info where to get the coolest stuff before everyone else has them!

Side notes:
[1] Technically speaking there is no such thing as real-time. The proper to term is just-in-time or JIT.