Re: Seeing as twitter "solves" a non-existant problem ...
"But I also think that something else would replace it."
The masses seem to jump on to anything that is pushed their way as the next thing. The question is how long they stay with it. It will be replaced anyway at some stage by something equally useless as the replacement must appeal to the masses and collect data for someone else who doesn't have the data.
The people that don't have the data simply don't have it because they don't have the money to buy it so the next replacement will come from someone else who doesn't have enough money and thinks they can sell data, maybe.
Because of the data already collected the next big thing will need to be able to collect data not already collected and since it's not already being collected the masses need to be told to use something that is completely different to what we have now.
When the replacement is thought of it will replace the previous must have useless thing just as quick as the previous must have useless things appeared.
Twitter, facebook, whatscrap, instathing are all waiting to be replaced.
I think the replacement will simply be the default acceptance of everything on a mobile, including sensors, being slurped. Presumably Apple and google will simply make a universal app for all messaging types, then push us to take it, destroy the whatsapp, insta, twitter markets and keep their control albeit with more power. The kind of data they will want is medical, heart and blood measurments...then they can see drugs to us and capture the pharma arena.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
