An article by Craig Offman of the National Post suggests that Twitter is just a passing fad. Turns out that attrition could be the downfall of the popular service. That comes courtesy of a Nielsen Online post that reports 60% of the Twitterati do not revisit the site one month after signing up. So while celebrities, the media, and Oprah are touting it as the greatest thing since sliced bread, more people are leaving Twitter than actually sticking around.
So what do you think? Is Twitter here to stay? Or is it a passing fad soon to be lampooned on a future episode of VH1's "I Love the 2000s"?
Facebook already includes Twitter-like microblogging with the added bonus of rich privacy controls so that updates can be targeted to as few or as many people as one wishes.
Twitter will wind up being used by the less-tech-savvy who find Facebook to cumbersome and the dim-witted narcissists who want all their thoughts public but can't string enough thoughts together to write a real blog.
Posted by: Shelby Walnuts | August 30, 2009 at 09:19 PM