Twitter is one intriguing medium that constrains you to a mere 140 characters while continuing to draw millions of users worldwide. Twitter sports a high signal-to-noise ratio with users constrained to write pithy messages.
This limitation imposed by twitter somehow attracts more and more users to announce lots and lots of things in the terse messages. With Facebook leading the social networking revolution (I presume it is), it is imperative for twitter to look for other options to make itself more desirable for users.
If you have not seen the new twitter you may want to read this . Here's what is worth observing. Among other things twitter allows you to view pictures and videos posted on a different website within your twitter page.
Forget visiting twitpic and yfrog. All the content will be accessible from within twitter. If you tagged your tweets with the location then a google maps image will be inlaid along with the tweet. That is UI Magic.
The distinguishing trait of twitter which attracts people will still not be violated. It is only that in 140 characters you will be expected to write information enough to identify the source of information.
While currently only pictures and videos are supported, it is likely that in the future twitter will allow you to render custom html within a frame (or whatever) on the twitter home page. Thus you could post entire blogs without being bogged down by the 140 char limit. It might also be possible to decorate content before rendering it on twitter.
Facebook currently generates a thumbnail view of the link that you post. But what I am talking about is completely different. Viewing the content within the twitter page ...
But wait isn't this what Google Reader does. Only thing is that Google Reader is a reader first and then a social networking portal.
With Google Chrome trying to the move all your computing needs to the cloud making your PC a mere viewer, twitter could go one step further by making its website the one stop tab (within chrome of course) to collate information from various sources and relate tweeple with the information.
To sum it up, looking forward it appears twitter will strategize by acting as a proxy for content hosted on remote servers without actually burdening its own servers.
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