Twitter’s Killer App
October 2nd, 2008 Posted in Web 2.0
I just bookmarked (aka Instapaper-ed) a really interesting New Yorker article about the U.S. presidential election that someone posted on Twitter.
If I hadn’t seen it on Twitter, I never would have heard about it, let alone read it.
Being able to access this kind of information is, by far, the biggest reason I like Twitter.
Getting access to interesting stories, trends, blog posts and ideas is Twitter’s killer app.
People who provide these 140-character gems on a regular basis are worth following.
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October 2nd, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Mark, You are SO right about the value of Twitter. I followed your link on Twitter to this article. And then I followed your link to Instapaper - only to realize I’d tried it some months back. However, then I didn’t get it. Tonight, it was precisely the kind of app I am looking for (to use with Safari on my G2 iPod Touch.) So, a journey of discovery that started with Twitter, ran through your blog and took me back to a forgotten app.
Priceless.
October 2nd, 2008 at 7:55 pm
[...] As I look back at this post and the wealth of pointers people provided to me via Twitter, I realize that how lucky I am to have built up a community on Twitter of other people who share my interest. Mark Evans is SO right when he calls this “Twitter’s killer app.” [...]
October 4th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
[...] publications. Thanks for visiting!Instapaper only came on my radar screen this morning when I read a post from Mark Evans, a blogger worth watching, who was extolling its virtues. As the FAQ says: Instapaper facilitates [...]
October 5th, 2008 at 8:46 am
When I’m on Twitter I think I spend half of my time following the interesting links the people I follow put up.