"ignoring the Me Media gluttons who gum up the works with a frivolous blog posting or Twitter text every few minutes" - article about friendfeed/twitter, but tone rather
I query the multitudes. Last week, I was writing a script for a TV segment, and needed a great example of "an arty movie that a teenage baby sitter wouldn't be caught dead watching." My followers instantly shot back a huge assortment of hilarious responses. ("Gandhi." "My Dinner with André." "The Red Balloon.")
To the Internet hipsters who discovered Twitter in 2006, Oprah's inaugural tweet - FEELING REALLY 21st CENTURY, she typed - was the end of the era, the shark jump. But that's like saying the Beatles were over after they appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show."
Twittermania has only begun. In the days after Oprah's show, Twitter's traffic growth is accelerating. The ratings service HitWise now ranks twitter.com as America's No. 38 Web site. It's about to rocket past CNN and Wells Fargo.