Twitter niches
By Jose A. del Moral • Jan 6th, 2009 • Category: TwitterAs Twitter keeps growing, bad people are trying to hack it, programmers are developing new features and applications and marketers are creating new niches. No need to talk any more about this week’s twitter virus and today’s Steve Jobs’ fake gossip (it came from MacRumors). Twitter needs a groups feature, so that things like Twittermoms or GospelR can be done on its site.
It’s clear that users need a way to divide their followers and marketers need a way to address messages to certain groups. Having a single flow of messages is good as a start point but will not grow to convert Twitter into a complete social network. Company twitter-like tool Yammer is doing it so much better!
Half a year ago Twitter admitted it was working on a groups feature, but there had not been any news so far, but a small test in Japan. Meanwhile, people have created small applications, such as Twitter Groups, Twittbot or GroupTweet (I especially like this one).
Just found this article on Twitter hacks – pretty interesting stuff: http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/01/06/avoiding-twitter-hacks-koobface-and-other-security-holes/
[...] I am already watching several communities that are live on Twitter. I am myself using Twitter as a way to know how my friends are doing and getting to know them better. The good thing about it is that I don’t have to stop doing whatever I am doing. It does not interrupt me: just take a look at my twitterfox plugin on Firefox and see whatever my friends have to say. It is a bit adictive, though. In any case, it is clear that Twitter really needs to create an application for groups. [...]