My twitter feed now has over 9,000 followers... I'm fairly certain I now have more folks following me on twitter than on my blog.
What does that mean!?
http://twitter.com/JasonCalacanis
What's really interesting is that if you look at the top users only four are "real" people: Leo, Justin, Merlin, and Scoble. The others are software (twittervision, twitterriffic), CNN, and a presidential candidate.
Scoble has 12,000 people... wow.
Right now I'm adding around 50 folks a day. If that keeps up I think I'll have around 25,000 folks in a year. That's really wild when you think about it.
Twtitter is the #2 referrer of traffic to my blog... behind Google. Wow.
1. I think in all honesty that twitter will be the next thing (after facebook fades away).
Why... Because facebook has taught people to, in effect, micro-blog, although normal users don't consider themselves to be micro-blogging when they update their own facebook status update but it's catching on and I think that twitter will allow those facebook users to extend their "micro-blogging" "addiction" and do much more than the facebook status update can do.
However this won't happen if twitter doesn't find a viable business model.
But I can see twitter becoming a major source of traffic for websites. Why? Well twitter users, myself and you now have a stream of websites which interest us (and our friends) as well as a sort of filter to the web, a filter which won't allow any "crap" through.
Posted at 7:21PM on Mar 9th 2008 by William Tildesley