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Twitter Fatigue: Rumors of Twitter’s Demise May Not Be Greatly Exagg ... By judithgermain

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Mar 31, 2009

Summary

Over the past year, predicting Twitter’s demise due to a lack of business plan has been the topic de jour in the blogosphere. However, it’s recently become clear that Twitter faces a more immediate threat; its own success.

In my last post, Twipocalypse Now: Warnings of a Twitter Bubble, I observed that Twitter was at risk on several fronts, one of which being what I called “Twitter Fatigue” (TF). Since then, I’ve discovered that TF has been around in various forms for quite some time and that it has recently found a new sense of urgency among a growing chorus of bloggers. It now seems clear that not only is TF a malady spreading in parallel with Twitter’s own growth, but perhaps more ominously, if TF is not brought under control, it will undermine the entire Twitterverse itself.

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