You might say we've developed a bit of a fascination with Twitter, what with all the coverage and launching our own Twitter people directory, CNN's talking about Twitter, we're reminded we were once fascinated by another upstart before it went mainstream: Google.
Like Google in 2001 (or MySpace in 2004 and YouTube in 2005), one has to wonder what percentage of the CNN audience has ever actually heard of Twitter. It's existence before an American graduate student sounded alarms about his arrest in Egypt via tweet was limited to a bubble of a few hundred thousand early adopters who kept crashing the thing.
Good thing for James Karl Buck Twitter wasn't flying the Fail Whale that day. With some funding, some scaling—both of which have happened or are happening—and eventually some monetization, we'll likely look back at Twitter's early growing pains with nostalgic fondness; like the Slinky, very cool but didn't always work.
Ahem. There are probably some private commercial applications, too. The sky's the limit, so long as you've got something better than birds to fly the whale.
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