I’ve decided to give twitter another chance, thanks to “Adam Engst’s humble pie eating article”:http://db.tidbits.com/article/9228 on why he changed his mind about the service. My personal theory goes like this: just as the service itself through word of mouth, buzz and the network effect created a tipping point that catapulted it in popularity, each individual user has a tipping point, usually manifested through the network effect when enough of their family, friends or colleagues are using the service and tweeting interesting enough information that makes it worth their while to listen or chime in.
At the moment when I tweet, I feel as though I am sticking my head out of the window of a highrise apartment and yelling at the top of my lungs ‘I’m going to the bathroom now!’, so I’ve yet to summit that epiphanic moment that millions of other people have apparently already reached.
By the way, Adam Engst was one of the oldest names I remember from my first experiences with the Internet, way back in ‘93-’94 when I used to subscribe to TidBITS via email using my Mac Performa 400. After finishing the article, it was nice to recall his name after all these years.
