Social Networking Journal

Twitter Is Mainstream Mainstay

Twitter is being done by tons of sports personalities and entertainment celebrities. And so do politicians. The land of the 140 character micro-blog is growing each day with the same people we’re exposed to via every other medium.

Now the race is on to see who can attract the most “followers.” The offline version of popularity contests has officially been transferred online.

When a new medium like Twitter becomes so mainstream so fast, you have to wonder how long the tool will be useful. Twitter is already being used extensively by marketers, so we can probably expect more of the future message to be commericial in nature.

It’s hard to argue with the success of the service. Twitter has built a system that’s easy to use and free. People have adapted to their online infrastructure in droves.

As Twitter evolves, more and more people will find ways to monetize their use of the service, and undoubtedly the service will find ways to generate revenue commensurate with their explosive growth rate.