Gartner published they updated 2009 Hype Cycle white paper on 11 August. Having read a post on this from ReadWriteWeb, http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/gartner_hype_cycle_2009.php, I’d like to say the following:
I believe that Microblogging will indeed have a bigger impact than what Gartner seems to imagine. The massive number of recent Twitter users are just beginning to play around with it and to find out how it might benefit them. Some will abandon Twitter after a single tweet, and some will find ways to get value out of the real-time aspects of it. Just yesterday I participated for the first time in a live Twitter-originating discussion thread, courtesy of the new service created by Joshua Schachter – a.tinythread.com. The ability to have a live (real-time) discussion with anyone who’s interested gives rise to collaborative ideas and interaction that would never have taken place before. Check out the discussion that took place about this new service and the types of new features that would be useful in it, started by Robin Good: http://a.tinythread.com/qkHvAGTyX6.
