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Why Twitter Will Go Mainstream In 2009

Source: 4 entrepreneur

Dec 29, 2008

Summary

Today Dennis Goedegebuure from The Next Corner (follow him at @TheNextCorner) makes some predictions about Twitter in 2009.

2008 showed an unbelievable growth for Twitter as THE place for microblogging. With competitors like Pownce closing their doors, it seems that Twitter has the stronger cards to become the sole survivor in this field.

The Twitter ecosystem is expanding so fast, that the switching costs for users are becoming even higher the more they get connected in the network. Twitter has the network advantages. For Twitter I expect the break into mainstream will come in 2009, if their server park can handle the load!

Twitter Goes Mainstream

Mainstream media is starting to pay attention. A number of articles in the New York Times and Wall Street Journal must have brought Twitter under the eyes of thousands of non Silicon Valley Internet users. We in Silicon Valley tend to think everybody is aware of all the latest tools and services just launched yesterday. This, however, is off course the opposite. Twitter was a rather unfamiliar phenomenon in rural US

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Comments (6)

Thomaspower,

Dec 29, 2008

yes it has too what's interesting is who will buy it Google, MS, Facebook or Vodafone. Still think the combination of Twitter with Friendfeed and SocialMedian fed into my Ecademy profile is truly amazing power.

Solacetech,

Dec 29, 2008

@Thomaspower Vodafone? That's an interesting addition...

Thomaspower,

Dec 29, 2008

@solacetech yes Vodafone is my outside bet as Twitter hasn't enough capital for the SMS service and that's where Twitter will truly explode to mainstream thus Vodafone and/or Nokia are my outside bets. Sadly the execs there are just not with it online so Goog, MS, FB is more obvious. The ultimate outsider has to be Apple cos' of iPhone and Jobs.

Josh Miller,

Dec 30, 2008

Meh, what exactly defines mainstream anyway? I'd barely call hugely popular sites like Flickr mainstream much less Twitter. Even Facebook is pushing it though Myspace probably qualifies.

Thomaspower,

Dec 31, 2008

@JoshMiller according to MyCompete.com Twitter has 3.4m users, Facebook has 49m and Google 130m. Linkedin has 7.7m users and is no way mainstream. So I guess over 50m users would be my definition.

Markus Merz,

Jan 01, 2009

The only thing I dislike is that everybody is talking about Twitter and not about the generic possibilities of Microblogging per se. T. is not open, not OpenSource and the sheer momentum is scary.