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People are going to be surprised at the increased functionality Twitter will be launching over the next 3 - 6 months.
Many blessings
And now people want threaded dsicussions as well, which makes me wonder -- why not just use a regular Instant Messenger in the first place...?! Because that's where Twitter is actually going...
If they removed the 140 character limit it would probably turn into the biggest Instant Messenger tool ever, kicking Yahoo's, AIM' and MSN's butt, donÄt you think...?! Or people could have just used one of those from the very start, I guess...
I admit the chat aspect of Twitter sounds at first a bit odd, but when you consider that you could be chatting with hundreds of people simultaneously, it makes a lot more sense why you wouldn't want to try that via IM.
What if Yahoo or AIM had started something like a "public timeline"...?! Or why did people -- from no-names like us to "celebs" like Kevin Rose or Robert Scoble -- kind of hide their IM names, but don't have a problem publishing their Twitter names all over the net...?!
I mean, if we had all done the same with our IM accounts, it would basically have been the same thing, don't you think...? Why didn't we...? Even nowadays when I get an IM from someone I don't know I tend to be cautious -- but when I see someone new following me on Twitter (or Plurk or whatever) I don't mind and most of the time follow them back...!?
So did we really need all thse new tools and services, which aren't that new or innovative anyway or would the old ones (like IM) have sufficed if we had used them more openly...?!
I'm left to wonder if any of the other people who posted comments to this topic actually tried to use Tweader.