Why I Love Twitter by Tim O'Reilly


	Why I Love Twitter by Tim O'Reilly

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11-29-2008 10:42 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b9559428-f785-4fbc-90d5-ebe3b45affec/FEAAECF0-E1F6-49B4-93F9-022ED3066198/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html" href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html" style="font-size: 11px;">radar.oreilly.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><P>
I thought I should outline here some of the specific things I find so compelling about Twitter, with suggestions about architectural features to be emulated by other internet services.  
</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><STRONG>Twitter is simple.</STRONG> Twitter does one small thing, and does it well.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><STRONG>Twitter works like people do</STRONG>.  If I'm interested in someone, I don't have to ask their permission to follow them.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><STRONG>Twitter cooperates well with others.</STRONG> Rather than loading itself down with features, it lets others extend its reach.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><STRONG>Twitter transcends the web</STRONG>.  Like all of the key internet services today, Twitter is equally at home on the mobile phone.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><STRONG>Twitter is user-extensible.</STRONG></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html"><STRONG>Twitter evolves quickly.</STRONG>  Perhaps because its features are so minimal,</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/11/why-i-like-twitter.html">In many ways, <A href="http://books.google.com/books?client=firefox-a&id=poFQAAAAMAAJ&dq=unix+programming+environment&q=simple+tools&pgis=1#search">Twitter is a re-incarnation of the old Unix philosophy of simple, cooperating tools</A>. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/FEAAECF0-E1F6-49B4-93F9-022ED3066198/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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