I completely agree that twitter got worse - especially at social conversations. This was the reason why i saw them - like you - as the forever second (if not last).
But the move to categorize, contextualise and present real time content and provide it for third partners is a big businessmodel. E.g. thousands of press agencies pay their bills like that - and twitter has already a pull by media houses to go that way. If developers were ok to pay for firehouse i am pretty sure mediahouses will pay for firehouse news.
And as said - i agree it sucks at several levels. But this wy to look at it gave me a new light to it.
Andi
ps: It's not a PR plant but my opinion, even if it's laughable.
Sure, but if Twitter is getting worse to the point where the vast majority its content is bots spamming each other and retweets of memes and timeless pithy quotes, then (i) the number of actual people actually using the service will drop off faster than Myspace and (ii) Twitter analysis isn't going to be worth paying Twitter for, especially with media agencies already able to monitor the comments of public figures at no charge and get link share stats from shorturl services.
Thanks for your feedback.
I completely agree that twitter got worse - especially at social conversations. This was the reason why i saw them - like you - as the forever second (if not last). But the move to categorize, contextualise and present real time content and provide it for third partners is a big businessmodel. E.g. thousands of press agencies pay their bills like that - and twitter has already a pull by media houses to go that way. If developers were ok to pay for firehouse i am pretty sure mediahouses will pay for firehouse news.
And as said - i agree it sucks at several levels. But this wy to look at it gave me a new light to it.
Andi
ps: It's not a PR plant but my opinion, even if it's laughable.