A Twitter Quickie
May 13th, 2009Twitter seems to be my favorite subject these days, a little weird since I spend so little time on it. Anyhow, here’s another two cents worth of thought about what it’s good for, from Dr. Pete at SEOmoz.
Dr Pete thinks Twitter is a way to connect online ‘friends’ with each other in the other ‘real’ world. He says “The real power of Twitter is in transforming online connections into real-world relationships.” He goes on to give a few examples of how Twitter helped him meet up with friends and colleagues.
Sure, I’ll buy it. But I’m sticking to my guns on this: Twitter is search. It’s social search, to be sure, but it’s search. You might want to find a person, thing, website, resource, directions, advice, or business, but you are using the people on Twitter to do it. Social, real-time search.
