Comments on: Will Microblogging Take Off With Teens?

By: Jonathan loves Innovative Marketing

Jonathan loves Innovative Marketing — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:39:34 +0000

I imagine many more are using Tumblr than Twitter, but the real issue is that there are limitless ways to connect and interact and a limited amount of time, so the obvious result is that only the best of these tools will be widely used.

By: T Campbell

T Campbell — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 18:57:35 +0000

It’s hard for me to accept that Twitter might not be youthy enough, because it feels like the first social networking tool I can really sink my teeth into.

Still, I think that a rapid growth curve makes it a reasonably good bet (if not a sure thing) to catch on with teens eventually. At one time, Japanese animation and the Internet hit an older demographic too.

Also note: you can update MySpace and Facebook THROUGH Twitter, and if you have accounts on both, that’s one convenience that you can’t get from either.

By: Jaz Cummins

Jaz Cummins — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 15:13:00 +0000

I think the functionality of Twitter should appeal to teens, if only because the status feature is one of the most used/loved elements on Facebook, and I’ve seen how much people enjoy the dialogue of the ‘comment on status’ functionality.

But I agree that the ‘real friends’ factor is going to stop teens getting onto Twitter/Plurk. I love Twitter, but it has much more of an appeal for professionals/brands/networkers to add some colour to their online profile than to teens who already know their friends ‘in real life’!

By: Kevin Mattison

Kevin Mattison — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 23:16:50 +0000

Some of my students use twittter. Many follow me, a few twitter regularly. I’ve found that most of them don’t what Twitter, Plurk, or Tumblr are. Most of the time I am explaining to them what they are…

By: Chad Kennedy

Chad Kennedy — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 18:47:57 +0000

I agree. I have been using Twitter off and on recently but haven’t found how it’s relevant. I think Facebook is the best at status updates and posting items. The only upside to Twitter, in my opinion, is that CNN has been using it lately to communicate with viewers and get their opinions instantly. I don’t see Twitter sticking around much longer. I would bet that they’ll get bought out just so another company, like Yahoo or Microsoft, can take get their users and somehow incorporate it into their platforms.

By: Stefan Hayden

Stefan Hayden — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 20:03:28 +0000

All of these niche services will languish in the shadows until a standard for decentralized social networks becomes a standard.

People do get profile fatigue and while it’s fun to fill out a few profiles it does eventually become a pain.

Right now the action is on Facebook or MySpace. Twitter is dumb if your friends are not all using it. Tumblr is nothing more then a blog service with a nice interface.

Twitter, Tumblr, Plurk and others will have a hard time getting any traction until it can tie in to whatever the dominate social network is at the time.

Facebook’s API was a step in the right direction but is seems as if the use of those applications have died off since the profile redesign.

Until these smaller social networks can get tigher integration in to the larger ones users will be happy settling for what ever half ass attempt myspace does to copy the hot new feature of the moment.

Until decentralized social networks are easier to establish the largest online communities will always be large providers like myspace and facebook that offer a comprehensive solution to online socializing.