Twitter Reconsidered

Right now I feel a lot like I did in late 1992 after I had witnessed some dialog on Compuserve and The Well and became enthused about the potential. I promoted this thing among everyone I knew and even the polite responses were little more than blank stares. Even in 1993 when AOL was using a Mac-like GUI people still couldn't see the potential...

I ignored Twitter for a long time, I didn't get it, I even blogged recently that I didn't "get it." People on Facebook more or less "get it" but largely still don't understand the potential. It does take some work to figure out the potential, and you may well not realize it for a while. But this is the first time I've been excited about a new development on the web since Compuserve was DOS and AOL was Macintosh.

Ev Williams was on Charlie Rose last night, the interviews take a few days to be posted so it's not on the site yet.So, if you haven't put a little effort into "getting it," you should or you risk having to play catch-up somewhere in the future.