“Like diseases that must mutate to infect ever more hosts, transitory technologies have an enormous impact until people build up resistance - which is what is happening to free social messaging service Twitter now. Certainly Twitter has generated a pandemic of popularity, but it appears many people quickly decide Twitter is tedious, with 60 per cent of new users becoming ex-users in a month.”
The Australian uses Swine Flu zeitgeist in an attempt to explain why Twitter will inevitably fail. There’s too much funny for my brain to handle for one morning.
(HT to my boy, Tim, at Mumbrella for picking this one up.)
Did you hear, btw, that the internet will be full by 2012?
