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Re: Twitter is a new medium.

jonsteinberg — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 19:23:11 -0000

When you next in ny? Let's get coffee

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

tweetip — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 18:31:05 -0000

We feel Twitter is introducing us collectively to a 4th place too.

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

gfcampbell — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:49:56 -0000

Giannii, there should be 3 comments on this post... lost somewhere in the ether...

Thanks,
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FIXED - Many thanks. Disqus is great.

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

giannii — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:25:28 -0000

Twitter is an amazing tool.

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

grahammudd — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:01:06 -0000

Enjoyed the post. Went into it admittedly skeptical and came away thinking you may just have a point. Thanks.

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

fredwilson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:36:49 -0000

this is a big and bold statement and i agree with it, of course.

blogging got close, but the addition of short and mobile make all the difference in the world

i think we are only starting to see the innovation in this space and i don't think twitter will end up with all the value. there will be plenty of value to go around.

just as there will be businesses more valuable than facebook built on top of facebook, there will be plenty of value built on top of twitter.

Re: Twitter is a new medium.

jonsteinberg — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:48:18 -0000

Your point on "public conversation" is spot on. Twitter revives something which harkens to to the colonial period in the cold Northeast. When entrepreneurs and public officials gathered in the pub and for the price of a beer got free stew and even freer conversation and debate. Conversations were both public and intimate.

Twitter creates what the sociologist Ray Oldenburg (http://bit.ly/9czq) called "third places" (http://bit.ly/13mQw) - places other than work or home. It just so happens that Twitter, as a third-place, exists outside the meat-world. So we can be in our first and second places and simultaneously in the 3rd that is Twitter.