Twitter about Twitter with me for a sec
Posted on Thursday, March 22nd, 2007 at 9:54pm. #
A blog isn’t a blog at the moment if you’re not blogging about Twitter, so given that, I ought to also have my say. I use it. Indeed, my Twitter followers will have got a Twitter message from me saying that I’ve just added a new blog entry.
You know why I think it’s so successful? Not because of what it is – 140 characters, whoop-de-doo. It’s successful… because of its API.
The Twitter API means it was easy for Twitter themselves to build in web, instant-messaging and text messaging; but then, also easy for other people to play with Twitter. So, we’ve got Twittermap, and Twittersearch, or a way to plug Wordpress into Twitter, or BBC News headlines into Twitter, or the now-playing information for BBC Radio 1 (so pointless I can’t be bothered to link to it), or GeoTwitter, or more bizarre stuff. Their API lets people create some really cool things.
But what about media? It’s no secret that the BBC has figured this out already. The question is how long it’ll take other people to catch up too.
