Sideproject: Twitter

OK, I think most of us dismissed Twitter when we first heard of it. I know I did. Dismissed it completely.
“What,” I said, “140 characters? Update what I’m doing? And people will follow this? Bullshit”
Fisr I heard of it was back in the Summer, after coming across this.
I had much the same opinion as that guy.

But, my God, it really has caught on hasn’t it? News updates, Brandjacking, McHammer.

Praise God, we can all rest easy.

But, looks like we weren’t alone. Evan Williams, the man behind this phenomenon never even saw this coming.
What was essentially a side project turned into something huge. Fiddling around with status updates and SMS is now a way to connect with anyone, find out about serious events (most news agencies now have twitter feeds that people subscribe to).

This guys ’side projects’ probably make more money then a small African country

While a lot of this talk seems to basically plug his product, it brings home just how popular this thing is.

I can see this possibly becoming a more popular way of RSSing to feeds, another timesaver so people don’t have trawl through websites for the latest content. Google Reader is getting more popular, but it seems that simple is best these days.
And how can you get any simpler then a 140 character message?

On a side note, another one of Evan’s ’sideprojects’ was Blogger, the very blogging tool I’m using now. Makes you wonder what kinds of things he does when he supposed to be actually working.