Given the increasing speed of hype cycles on the web it is absolutely NO surprise that according to
Nielson, Compete.com AND Comscore Twitter traffic is tanking.
The measurements do leave out other methods of access, mobile among them. Regardless, I am nailing the the last nails in Twitter’s coffin today.
The problems with the Twitter model have been many. For one it has never been more than an easily replicatable software feature. In fact, Facebook has done a good job of doing just that with its new Live Feed. (But please don’t take that as an endorsement of Facebook, it is mercilessly unintuitive.)
Twitter is now flooded with inane commercial messages making it spam on steroids. So where it once might have been very relevant, it is fast becoming noisy cluttered and virtually useless. If relevancy is the gold standard of the Internet – Twitter is dead.
If 2007 was the year of MySpace, 2008 the year of Facebook and 2009 the year of Twitter – what will 2010 be?
Foursquare.com, that’s my bet.
