Recently I was in a meeting where somebody said twitter was a fad, that it will die and people WILL get bored. I guess there are no write or wrong answers to a statement like that, maybe the bird will tip off its perch, who knows!

What I am sure about is the new trend in communication Twitter has spawned. Twitter is the utility which has brought life-streaming and microblogging into the mainstream (before it was just the nerds). If people do move on from Twitter, they will only be moving onto more sophisticated or integrated life-streaming platforms.

Back to that original statement.

I’m sure there are many of you out there who hear and think the same thing, take a lookie at the video above from TED, perhaps it will change your mind about usefulness of Twitter, life-streaming and microblogging.

Another fake we think, we’re not convinced by the tiny amount of followers.

Btw: As Gary V would say “This is the thunder post!”, post 100 people.

I must have tweeted about how drunk I was, why? I don’t quite know, I suppose using twitter has become akin to using the phone. You often call people whilst you’re drunk and I suppose tweeting whilst you’re drunk is the next step after using twitter becomes second nature.

Anyway a friend of mine Googled my name and guess what got indexed? My drunken tweet! Not a very good example of “personal reputation management”.

I found the whole thing quite hilarious, hope you guys do too.

So I attented twestival earlier during the week, a sort of social media, web2 and netrentrepreneur gathering all organised via twitter.

This was definitely the first media event I had attended, which had been organised through twitter. Some people were shocked about how many agency bods had attended but then what did they expect? A web2 gathering in the middle of the west end, I’ll say no more.

Amongst all free booze and food, there was talk of xmpp, cisco systems delivering the next big thing and apparently twitter being dead in the next year or so, oh well you can’t please them all.

I had a laugh catching up with a few familiar faces and I look forward to next twitter co-ordinated bash.

Microblogging has so many versatile marketing uses, however, clients question why they should use microblogs and what are the real benefits?

I could probably sit here and write 10 or more obvious reasons, however, one of the most important reasons has to be search engine visibility…I will lend you my real world example:

I bought a lovely pair of Nike Vomero 3 running shoes two weeks ago and ever since I have been busy putting them through their paces. As I have been so happy with them I decided to do a few searches in order to see what other people had to say about them.

As soon as I queried “Nike Vomero3” a twitter tweet ranked No.2 (Google UK & No.1 Google UK (UK)) providing a good review of the shoe. So there we are, there’s the head smacker…search engine visibility!

Not only are microblogs social media platforms which syndicate information, facilitate conversation and enable community building; they are also capable of providing good search engine visibility over time. This is something that many DR centric brands will value.

Seesmic is just hours of entertainment to be quite frank, but there are some serious innovative marketing uses a facility like this can provide.

We’ve all seen how effectively businesses have used twitter, Seesmic provides much more sticky and engaging content through video. Video posts on average seem to receive more replies in comparison to text tweets on twitter (try saying that with a mouthful).

With me being a preacher of all things video at moment it goes without saying: Seesmic is definitely one to watch and one to get involved with too!

dawdlr is a I service that I stumbled upon a little while ago; however, I had my interest rekindled by a mention of it in DotNet. I like this app it’s realistic…its lifestreaming at a slower pace, a kind of twitter for those that don’t really care that much.

It’s powered by Tumblr family hence the dawdlr.tumblr.com URL and is a piss take of twitter, a of sort tell us what you’re doing on post card and we’ll update it when we can be bothered.

You have to love the originality and it probably won’t surprise you that Russell Davies is behind it all.