Will Twitter Join Podcasting on the 'Net Sidelines'?

Ian Lamont writes "Twitter has established itself in some quarters as a must-have communications tool, and its power to connect and even incite people is hard to deny. But does Twitter have long-term, mainstream potential? Or does a poor revenue model and strong competition mean that it's destined to be a sideline Internet technology, much like podcasting has failed to live up to early hype?"

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"Sidelined" as in "It's not the next killer app"

[spun]

This is "The Industry Standard" we're talking about. They don't care who's doing what for free. If it's not making significant people significant amounts of money, it may as well not exist. Can you show that podcast has propelled any of these new business models into actual profitability? If not, you won't get folks like "The Industry Standard" to listen to you saying how transformative and disruptive it is, because without the cash flow, it simply isn't to them.

podcasting is a failure?

[the_rev_matt]

If twitter is as big a 'failure' as podcasting then they'll be quite happy I'm sure. Starts with a false premise, adds in zero facts other than the names of the founders, and the only real 'reason' they call it a future failure is because IM clients can do much of the same thing. Newsflash: you can integrate twitter with your IM. And anyone who only uses one IM protocol is living in the dark ages.

Oh, it's from Industry Standard. My criticism was redundant then.