Twitter and other banking fads

Perhaps I may have thought the future of SMS was limited, momentarily.

An argument for twitter is that it is young meets old - in that the younger demographic are comfortable with SMS and perhaps the older users are more comfortable with twitter. The fact that it is phone/web based connects the two groups in a convenient way with any level of phone.

The future of twitter is multi-faceted.

I have my own ideas about where twitter can be a very real threat to banks and others.

It has vast potential in ways I think few have yet contemplated.

As for facebook, or any other site's 'membership' numbers, a close look at the real activity on many social networking sites would probably surprise a few, much the same as membership activity on auction or dating sites is not fully understood by the casual observer.

The real trick is perhaps to be able to adapt your service to whatever interface people prefer to use to communicate. Twitter itself is an example of doing just that and perhaps twitter is simply one of many communication choices which might be integrated into a more than useful service offering. People who like chat or text may like twitter or use some other similar service. It has the potential to be useful to anyone who can read and has a mobile or a web browser - a not insignificant market.

It's not really about social networking anyway, its about communication - business, that is.

The problem I have with Twitter is that I cannot seem to get it on my phone. And I know that other people are having this problem.

It seems my UK Blackberry is not compatible. If Twitter is to be valuable at all (from a business or a social sense) It should be available on a mobile. But that is not the case for all.