{"id":332,"date":"2007-03-21T07:27:32","date_gmt":"2007-03-21T15:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/the-future-of-twitter\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T17:22:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-30T01:22:17","slug":"the-future-of-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/21\/the-future-of-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Twitter?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Last night I listened to an <a href=\"https:\/\/twit.tv\/shows\/netnight\/episodes\/54\">interview that net@nite did with Twitter founder Evan Williams<\/a> from earlier this month. Towards the end of the interview he talked about ways that they might monetize the Twitter platform in the future. The example that he gave was a movie promotion where you could follow the &#8220;tweets&#8221; of a character in an upcoming movie. This got me to thinking about where Twitter is going. I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m agreeing with the commercialization of Twitter, but how much longer will be it be until your Twitter page looks something like this?<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/future-of-twitter.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/future-of-twitter.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3314\" width=\"383\" height=\"428\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><em>5\/29\/2007 Update:<\/em><br>Delta Airlines is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/deltaairlines\">on Twitter now<\/a>.<br><br><em>6\/4\/2007 Update:<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/readwrite.com\/amazon_comes_to_twitter\/\">Read\/Write Web<\/a> spotted <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/amazondeals\">Amazon.com on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>7\/13\/2007 Update:<\/em><br>JetBlue (one of the companies that I used as an example in my original post) is <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jetblue\">on Twitter now<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I listened to an interview that net@nite did with Twitter founder Evan Williams from earlier this month. Towards the end of the interview he talked about ways that they might monetize the Twitter platform in the future. The example that he gave was a movie promotion where you could follow the &#8220;tweets&#8221; of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-predictions","category-twitter","category-web-20"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3318,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/3318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdoeff.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}