Twello.com Could Change Twitter as We Know It – for the Better?
Posted by Wilk | Filed under Odds 'n Ends
Webpro News started a new website today called Twello.com. It’s a Twitter yellow pages if you will. The developers have leveraged Twitter’s own API to do what they are not, making it easy to find people. Not just people you know, but people of like interests, people in your town, I assume there are other ways to search too, but those are the ones that became apparent to me spending just a few minutes on the site.
For those trying to leverage twitter to help them make money may benefit greatly from this, for the casual user, it may mean having to block many new followers per day. I’m kind of on the fence on this issue because I’m not so sure I want or need to use Twitter to network with new people. Twitter is an open network though, and as such, you can expect a few pains in the patoot now and again. In that Twitter is yet another attempt at social networking, and thus far pretty successful, most people on it still aren’t sure what it’s true purpose is. I guess we as tweeters are all rats in this grand experiment.
I enjoy Twitter quite a bit. As one of the “old people” that can’t STAND texting on a phone, see it as a way to engage in both insight and pointless blather, and it’s not as though it’s directed at anyone at times, and a very useful direct communication tool at others, I think there’s a lot of general appeal. At the same time, I think most of us tweeters are pretty unsure why we like it or what we really want to do with it. I think part of the point of Twitter is that it’s a comfortable enough place and malleable enough that we can pretty much use it for whatever we want with respect to our interaction with followers and also the pointless blather part.
For me, I at least want to stay so I have yet another place to broadcast blog posts and such. Wordpress has a twitter plug that automatically posts a tweet every time I post an article. Not so much a time saver as a brain saver, it’s one less thing I have to remember to do.
The real unmet potential for those of us in the South Florida Camera Club is to be able to get to know one another better. The potential is there for it to be a crucial communication venue and important for the club, if for no other reason than our ability to hook up with one another and do some shooting together. THAT would be really cool, all we need to do is get people to understand the advantages I guess. Like anything else internet, there will always be a majority of people that either don’t want to or won’t buy into “what’s new”. I’m one of those, but I always at least try new things. Most things I try, I find a waste of precious time and move on till the next thing comes along. Both Twitter and StumbleUpon are pretty much a part of what I do now though. Facebook is ok, but one of the things I don’t care for about facebook and absolutely hate about myspace is it’s a mess. Pardon my french… a cluster fuck. Too many blinky lights, too many things to do, too much information. I find most of the information pretty much useless.
You know what? When you think about it, Twitter is pretty much useless too on that level, but at least it has a very narrow single “thing to do” and I think that’s one of the reasons I like it as much as I do.
Let’s just hope that Twello doesn’t ruin it for us! I don’t think it will. I do pity those who have a ton of people following them, as that number will grow greatly in the weeks and months to come. I guess that’s fine with most of them though… I just don’t get the “need” to be that popular. I would much rather build something with great meaning on the web, and have that be popular.
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