Man muss sich Twitter wie eine Party vorstellen. Eine grosse Party. Die Party, von der alle erzählten, man müsse unbedingt auch vorbeischauen; alle seien da.
von David Bauer im Text Zwitscher mir einen (2009) auf Seite 79Ob
Twitter jemals die Bedeutung etwa von
Facebook erlangen wird oder ob sich
der Dienst wie früher das Netzwerk
Second Life als eine von Journalisten
hochgejubelte Eintagsfliege entpuppen
wird, bleibt abzuwarten.
von Andreas Hirstein im Text Für die Generation SMS (2009) auf Seite 66The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character updates to your "followers," and you think, Why does the world need this, exactly? It's not as if we were all sitting around four years ago scratching our heads and saying, "If only there were a technology that would allow me to send a message to my 50 friends, alerting them in real time about my choice of breakfast cereal."
von Steven Johnson im Text How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (2009) One of the most telling facts about the Twitter platform is that the vast majority of its users interact with the service via software created by third parties. There are dozens of iPhone and BlackBerry applications — all created by enterprising amateur coders or small start-ups — that let you manage Twitter feeds. There are services that help you upload photos and link to them from your tweets, and programs that map other Twitizens who are near you geographically. Ironically, the tools you're offered if you visit Twitter.com have changed very little in the past two years. But there's an entire Home Depot of Twitter tools available everywhere else.
von Steven Johnson im Text How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (2009) The basic mechanics of Twitter are remarkably simple. Users publish tweets — those 140-character messages — from a computer or mobile device. (The character limit allows tweets to be created and circulated via the SMS platform used by most mobile phones.) As a social network, Twitter revolves around the principle of followers. When you choose to follow another Twitter user, that user's tweets appear in reverse chronological order on your main Twitter page. If you follow 20 people, you'll see a mix of tweets scrolling down the page: breakfast-cereal updates, interesting new links, music recommendations, even musings on the future of education. Some celebrity Twitterers - most famously Ashton Kutcher - have crossed the million-follower mark, effectively giving them a broadcast-size audience. The average Twitter profile seems to be somewhere in the dozens: a collage of friends, colleagues and a handful of celebrities. The mix creates a media experience quite unlike anything that has come before it, strangely intimate and at the same time celebrity-obsessed.
von Steven Johnson im Text How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (2009) 
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