Why Twitter is Risky Business
The summer of Facebook love yields to falling for Twitter, big time!
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”? in Scobleizer’s one of a kind way:
The 10 rules of Twitter, and I how I break every one.
In a Scobleizer nutshell: Tweet often, at length, for many…and “screw” any other Twitterer that doesn’t like it.
Robert Scoble is also emulating his Facebook personal media mass distribution network strategy on Twitter:
Don’t put things into Twitter that aren’t designed for Twitter like photos, audio, etc. Me? I use TwitterGram and am playing with Flickr embeds too. Why not push it around?
Scoble wants even more Twittering:
Are there other rules I don’t know about? I’s like to break those, too.
BUT, what happens if/when Twitter itself breaks. After all, the fledgling startup–even while recently reinforced by some Union Square Ventures money–is famously prone to periods of “downtime.” TechCrunch characterized a lengthy Twitter disconnect earlier in the month as just a “regular outage with sugar coating.”
The precarious nature of the free-for-all and free to users “service” is apparently of little concern to Scoble, even as he seeks to do rely more and more on Twitter.
But what about fellow Twitter evangelist, Dave Winer, who has declared the nascent, Web 2.0 blogger fave no longer an experiment, for him.
For Winer, Twitter is a “mission critical” part of his “communication suite.”
Is it really prudent, though, for any professional or business to abdicate control over “misssion critical” operations to a new, unproven, consumer facing, free Web 2.0 tool that is offered on an “as is” basis to be used “at your own risk.”
The Twitter non-performance “guarantee”:
We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Twitter.com service for any reason, without notice at any time.
Twitter is NOT very “mission-critical” friendly.
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