The world has gone Twitter crazy

A bit of a late one today, but I felt I had to comment on the latest news on Twitter (my number 1 prediction for 2009 as you'll remember).

Well, it looks like this year will certainly be the year of Twitter. Not only have Jonathan Ross, Scott Mills and Stephen Fry been talking about it extensively, it's made the news a lot this week - and from what I hear the website has got a big pot of cash to play with to really get out and sell itself - although after this week, they probably don't need to. I just hope it's not going to be abused by corporate land like Facebook has (I can hardly complain given I work in corporate land, 9 to 5). Anyway, I really do hope that the simpler, cleaner nature of what it does means that it won't try to become something more complicated because that would ruin the whole thing.

But all of this makes me wonder, how will we manage all these social apps and websites that we're now surrounded by? At least one of my Twitter followers has already commented on this, and although there are ways to link some of these together, I guess the question is... do you need to? Is it really that different from having a telephone on your desk at work, with your email client open and people constantly asking you irrelevant questions (and the occasional relevant one) while you're clearly busy? The way we're absorbing media at home these days, together with the increase in broadband take up, and the lower price and increased power of laptops means that you can sit at home in the evenings, watching TV and still keep up to date with everything that's going on in the world, with everyone in the world. (Incidentally, as I type, I'm blogging, twittering, facebook-ing, emailing,  watching, and losing - money on the football). 

We do things in parallel, not series anymore. We're a multi-tasking, multi-channel, multi-talented, multi-media generation and the world is getting smaller with every tweet and status update we send or receive. Given the current economic climate... who can afford to fly anywhere anyway???

P.S: to follow chokestudio on Twitter, and see the latest tweets, see the panel on the right