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Twitter Ain’t Mainstream Implies Fox News Anchor
Yesterday Wall Street Journal writer Jessica Vascellaro wrote a piece titled, "Twitter Goes Mainstream". The lengthy article talks about how the short messaging service has moved into the mainstream because companies are starting to use it like Zappos and Comcast. The biggest note that Ms. Vascellaro fails to point out is that the people receiving the messages aren’t mainstream. It’s the same early adopter crowd for the most part. A followup column might look at who the average Twitter recipient is. Most importantly, let’s hope they implement a revenue plan before they hit mainstream!
Funny enough, while I was watching Fox News this past weekend, host Clayton Morris pimped Twitter as he does so often. The other host had some remarks that had me questioning whether Twitter really has moved into the mainstream. Here’s a quick video of the discussion:
Pfft – We’re not all techies from some uber connected world. I’m a grandmother and cancer patient who has been tweeting for two years.
A month or so ago my totally out of the loop husband has experienced the benefit from all the contacts I’ve made & is starting to dip his toes in the twitter stream. Most shocking – my un-connected 35 yo suburban mommy daughter is also getting the idea.
Jeesh, not everyone uses it effectively but my experience says it’s mainstream.
Twitter def. isn’t mainstream. From my experience, a large concentration of users are based in either Silicon Valley or NYC. Until it’s used across the country, like a FB or MySpace, it’s not mainstream.
If someone has to announce that a service is mainstream with a Wall Street Journal article, chances are that the service isn’t mainstream.
The actual traffic details on twitter would be the best indicator. With 3 million visitors (take as an approximation – ref:compete) and more if usage through sms is not counted in the above, it is growing fast. Till it becomes sms = tweet, any short post = tweet, it can be considered not mainstream.
Everyone Facebooks ; few twit.
(My twit identity is pretty much alien to the rest of my identity,
and I have no idea why a couple of people chose to follow me,
or if they are people at all.)