Twitter is Going Mainstream

Even though Duncan Riley called it the ‘Pending Sign of the Twitter Apocalypse‘, the fact that Internet Marketers are using Twitter is a sign that Twitter is going mainstream. There are of course problems with Twitter going mainstream, particularly spam, but on the positive side Twitter going mainstream means that there will be more users, and more users means that there will be more ways to utilize the data that Twitter creates from its users.

Twitter is Fixing Their Downtime

It’s about time, but Twitter is finally doing something to fix their constant downtime by hiring Pivotal Labs, a “quiet but impressive groups of big-gun, for-hire developers“. Since the root of Twitter’s downtime has to do with how it was designed, a complete rebuilding of the platform should alleviate much of the problems Twitter is currently having.

Twitter is Being Used in New Ways

While Twitter is typically used to describe what one is doing, the various uses of Twitter are constantly expanding. Recently a semi-formal debate between an Obama and McCain surrogate took place on Twitter. There have also been several displays of companies using Twitter to keep up to date with what their customers are doing. Just the other day I tweeted about not being able to try out the Feedly beta and within six minutes I received a reply from their team telling me it’d be ready in the next couple of days.

If all of these trends stay constant the future of Twitter is looking pretty good, even with competition from Pownce, Tumblr, and in the near future recently acquired Jaiku. Honestly though, who would have though a service that has a character limit of 140 characters would be so popular?

• A blog for LSA-SG steering members to write on.
• Representative/Executive Bios with photos.
• A contact form for constituents to contact LSA-SG.
• An events section which shows an accurate calendar of upcoming events for LSA-SG.
• A separate �??This Sucks�?? blog which allows constituents to send in their complaints via the website.

The new LSA-SG website launched on May 8, 2008. I plan on meeting with the president and vice president of the new administration in the near future to go over any changes that they would like to be made before the end of the semester as well as training them on how to use the website. By doing this I hope that there will be an easier transition into the new administration since I did the vast majority of updates over the past administration. It is also plausible that the new administration will not need to hire anyone for this position since the site should not need anymore technical changes.

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