27% of Twitter users just read tweets and never write them
27% of Twitter accounts posted at least one public message between September 1st 2011 and November 30th, according to a study released by Semicast. This means that many Twitter users mostly use the service to read tweets from others.
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Mobile Monday Silicon Valley and the (difficult) future of SMS
“SMS are going to disappear in 5 years”. This is the most interesting quote I got from Mobile Monday Silicon Valley, a monthly event which gets around 300 people together in San Francisco or Palo Alto. This time the subject was as popular as the monetisation of the mobile web.
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San Francisco vs. Silicon Valley
Silicon Valley is not so big. Along the 101 route, between San Francisco and San José, you find cities like Palo Alto, Redwood City, Menlo Park, Cupertino or Mountainview, in which the big Internet firms have developed. But there are many differences between San Francisco and the rest of the valley.
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Can you imagine if a company owned e-mail?
If a company owned e-mail, you would probably have to pay for certain messages (if not for all), spam would not exist and you would periodically receive ad messages (if you had not a premium account). Not posible? Now think about the last time you used a toll-road and consider two social networks you are probably using: twitter and Facebook. How many direct messages have you sent today thru them? Aren’t they substitutes of e-mail? Aren’t they owned by private companies?
“The Real Time Web”: The new buzz word for 2009
Every year we have a trend. Blogs, social networks, social media and crowdsourcing have been with us for the last 3 years. But their kingdom is over. The new buzz word is “The Real Time Web“. That’s what Twitter is all about. And some people even think Twitter (and Facebook) are going to come over Google, who has missed this trend.
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Twitter and the Real Time Web
As I read Louis Gray’s prediction on “Real-Time Web” becoming critical in 2009, I saw that the swedish word for microblogging (“mikroblogga”) has officially made it into the Swedish language. E-mail has been used for this so far, but spam is killing it. Messages on social networks, which is what microblogging really is, are here to substitute e-mail and avoid spam.
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Twitter niches
As 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.
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Silicon Valley vs. Europe: Mike Butcher has something to say
Back in May 2008, when TechCrunch UK‘s editor Mike Butcher came to Barcelona for Startup 2.0 and for a TechCrunch party, he had something to say about the Silicon Valley vs. Europe dilemma. He thinks that each part of Europe can become a component of what Silicon Valley is nowadays: German entrepeneurship, Spanish sun, British finances, etc. Is this realistic?
ETA’s bombing and twitter
Once again, I got the news from Twitter: basque terrorist group ETA has bombed TV channel EITB. Twitter has become the best way to get updates and be informed about what is going on around the world. World politicians are realizing this and, as matter of fact, Governor Schwarzenegger and the Consulate of Israel to the US have started twittering their views on current events. We can also use Twitter as an activist tool: I propose all twitter users to follow EITB’s twitter user in solidarity with their building being bombed today by terrorists.
