Twitter: The shortest path to the internet

Twitter has been very hot lately, and foreign Twitter has had a sizeable investment in the country's Twitter-like tweets, as well as an unequal number of angel investments. Generous consultation and TechWeb last week also specially invited CSDN's general manager, Mr. Haenle, and several of the country's Twitter-imitating web site founder to discuss the future of Twitter.

Reasons not to be bullish on Twitter

A lot of people are not very optimistic about Twitter, one of the reasons is the difference between Chinese and American culture, Americans are happy to tell others their own personal affairs, the Chinese people do not have much interest in this, the American open character and the Chinese still have a gap, MySpace has not been in the domestic fire, there are similar reasons.

Another reason is that China Mobile to the SP's governance, the future of mobile phone down text will be limited, and the domestic 3G policy is not clear enough, through the 3G network to accept content will also become difficult to cross the threshold. I asked the Longmen founder Li Zhuoheng A question later in the question: At present, the users of the network through SMS Blog to pay mobile text messages, but users receive text messages, this fee is charged by the network, this fee is very large, will not affect the development of the network? Li Zhuoheng is optimistic about this, he said, if users think this information useful to show that it is valuable, then the network commitment is also worth it.

Using a mobile phone to receive information about other blogs may be several times the information uploaded, this number in the initial development of the site is not visible, but if Tencent is such a business, every day there are 20 million users, each day to send a piece, each sent to 10 people look, this fee is very considerable, estimated to tens of millions.

The Twitter program is simple.

Haenle, when explaining Twitter, talked about one of the young founders who initially studied the shortest path algorithm for the city's postal system, and the algorithms and procedures he designed at age 18 were still used by many cities in the United States, a bit legendary. And Twitter's idea is what he came up with, Haenle said, that the idea was achieved in just two weeks, and that a few technicians had to do to optimize and maintain the stability of the server.

This shows that Twitter's program is not complicated, why is it so popular with so many people?

The usefulness of Twitter

People's Digital Life is now more and more rich, but also more and more complex, its complexity is no less than the Metropolitan city Traffic Network system. A user can send information through a browser, a client, or through a mobile phone. But the information between different websites, using different IM or mobile phone and website is relatively closed. A user using QQ, want to send information to MSN users, there is no other way, only to register as a user of MSN, and then add each other as friends. Just interworking between im is so troublesome, not to mention in IM and Browser, IM and mobile phone, even using a browser, the sea between different sites interoperability problems. Then there is no possibility, users use his usual way, such as QQ users, can you send content to MSN users?

Twitter can do this by allowing users to bind their accounts to different IM, mobile, and other contacts, and Twitter users can send messages to Twitter accounts in a variety of ways, such as gtalk,msn. This information can be embedded in forums and blogs as well as other pages so that other users can visit your blog page and see the updates you have.

Twitter: The shortest path to the internet

Twitter, like the shortest path the city's founders have studied, is the shortest path on the internet. Xingdong Personal portal into the web2.0, Charles Zhang to the pass into Sohu 3.0, then what is Twitter? It is a personal information portal, a personal portal that allows browsers (blogs, websites), IM, and mobile phones to interoperate. People can send information to a Twitter account in almost every way that is available.

Some people say Twitter is a micro-blog, I do not see it, why it can not be micro-forum, micro-text messages, micro-images, micro-chat? In fact, Twitter has blurred the boundaries of blogs, forums (postings), texting and chatting.

Twitter is a few points zero?

I don't want to put a x.0 tag on Twitter, but it's a combination of products, and Tencent's attention to this product has surprised me a bit. They in the domestic similar products appear only three months on their own independent domain name of the surging Web site on the line, the product has a bit of research on the degree of Ma's attention to this can be seen. But other portals, including the great emphasis on new products NetEase and Baidu are still indifferent, and at this time Tencent has surpassed the domestic number of imitation Twitter web site traffic, and no wonder whether the busy net (www.mangfou.com) Zhang Benwei said that the next 10 years do not intend to compete with Tencent users.

The domestic two big im to Twitter all very much, Taotao is Tencent's product, but with Microsoft related two products Bbqun Shijian and Zhang Benwei msnnext all turn to make the Twitter product.

Twitter is just a semi-finished product

The Twitter product, in my opinion, is just an opening, or a half-finished one. China's Twitter, at least 90% of the code needs to be constantly added. At least now Twitter is just a text blog, in fact, the picture blog, video blog can walk a similar way, pictures of micro-pats, video micro-podcasts, and text blog integration; embedded in the community, chat, group and blog, and constantly integrate with it, perhaps the future will produce a mini MAS products, But I believe people will like it, just as people like text messages.

Mobile and Unicom in slumber

Of course, companies that are best suited to integrate mobile phones, IM, and Web pages through Twitter products are mobile and unicom, and if they build Twitter products based on their own instant messaging products (such as flying letters), it will not be easy to live on the Twitter web or Tencent. Because only these two have the ability to make free downlink messages possible, and only they control the 3G network resources. I think Tencent is so worried, the most fear is nothing more than that! Once Tencent seize the initiative, even if mobile in the wireless has the advantage also helpless!

The final outcome

I believe that one day the move will wake up. At that time, Tencent's surging may have grown into a behemoth. Several domestic websites may be moved to buy, also unknown. If you wake up early, you may as well make one yourself.