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Twitter is just an 'internet' equivalent of SMS. You can predict that eventually all these forms of communication will unify (email/sms/phone/skype) so you won'
by mtkd 17y ago
Twitter is just an 'internet' equivalent of SMS. You can predict that eventually all these forms of communication will unify (email/sms/phone/skype) so you won't need multiple phone numbers/addresses/twitter IDs ...
The only thing stopping that is the identity issue. I believe the person that cracks identity will have the ring that rules them all.
- tptacek 17y agoBesides the 140 character limitation and the old bridge Twitter had to SMS, what's the similarity? SMS messages aren't public, they aren't searchable, and they don't have "followers" or a social graph.
- mtkd 17y agoThat's a fair point. I was addressing the premiss of the article that Twitter was a "communications mechanism" like email.
- ROFISH 17y agoThis is actually what Facebook is trying to do with Facebook Connect.