Twitter Derivatives

The finance industry invented them, the high tech industry develops them: derivatives.
In this case, of Twitter.

It feels to me like spontaneous growth of amoebas in a Petri dish, not sure who will kill and phagocyte whom.

What I am worried about is that this is not going to make it easier for Mr John Doe, Madame Michu and Monsieur Tout le Monde to understand any better what the heck Twitter is all about.

No wonder 60% of users never come back after one month.

For myself, I just decided to use Twitter to increase the world beauty by posting a weekly digital poem here.

As for the Twitter Derivatives, here is list where I will keep logging those I get to find. Feel free to add your own as comments.

Flock browser - more here
Twitmatic - more here
Twittering Too Hard - more here
StockTwitt - more here

Happ.in - more here

More coming soon

Comments

[Nic Fulton]

I feel that web fads are like art. Some genius creates a new genre, the experts love it. They heap on praise. The valuations fly up, then every not-quite-genius artists does derivative works, they're also good, and the experts give praise. Their valuations are excessive. People buy, galleries buy... Then every man avec son chien notes "I could do/paint that". The bubble bursts. The kudos of "owning the original" hangs around, but the derivative works become valueless.

I wish Twitter well, milk the fad.