Twitter: The Next Generation of Forums?

I’m in the middle of examining new opportunities at work regarding build social communities.  In the same breath, I’m also “playing” with a lot of different social media tools like Twitter.com (see my Twitter account).

It’s fun, it’s cool, and I’ve been struggling with the possibility if using this type of technology (SMS) on a private site. 

Then it got me thinking, Twitter is the ultimate global forum.

With traditional forums, a user has to find topic and then review the various threads and then hope that when they reply, that other User is there.  Twitter is real time - and regardless of their tagline (e.g. What are you doing?…) – real conversations, real meaningful conversations are going on among the crud.

In addition, the public timeline lets the User watch and/or “step onto” a global communication highway.

Very cool…

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