10 Twitter
Future Trends
Created By Karim Gargum www.KarimGargum.com
Copyright © 2009 Karim Gargum. All rights reserved.

1) Shift from ʻtweetingʼ
to ʻsearchingʼ

As more users sign up,
the signal-to-noise ratio
is dropping.

Increasingly the only
way to find useful
information will be the
Twitter search tool.

2) Twitter will
menace Google

There have been many
pretenders to the
Google search throne

But Twitter offers much more:
• Near realtime results
• Human filtered
• Follow search topic Tweets
• Twitter ‘trending’ topics

3) Three types of
users will emerge

Blabbers will continue
to ‘bla bla bla’ about
what they had for lunch

Sifters will use Twitter to
check the word on the
‘street’ and news.

Broadcasters will keep
pumping out Tweets,
possibly losing followers
along the way.

4) Automated tool
use to increase

Many tweets are
links to interesting
articles and posts

Automated tools
can now do this
autonomously

This will eventually
erode the amount of
genuine interaction
with followers

Some prominent
Twitter users are
even using ‘Ghost’
Tweeters

5) Twitter to become
news powerhouse

Twitter users have
reported from plane
crashes, terror attacks
and natural disasters.

This ‘citizen journalism’ has
grown Twitter’s value as a
news source immensely

There is no guarantee
traditional news sources
can keep up

6) Twitter ʻgated
communitiesʼ

Recently Twitter has
suffered from increasing
spam and frivolous users

Just as users can secure
their updates, groups of
users could create their
own Twitter ‘secured’
neighbourhoods

7) Twitter will fracture

Twitter has many
potential paths for future
development

This may lead it to split
out current functionality
into separate services

For example: Search,
News, Micro-blogging

8) Powered by Twitter

We are likely to see more
3rd parties adapting the
Twitter platform to launch
new services/applications

Microsoft’s ExecTweets is
a great example of this:
www.exectweets.com

9) Twitter Pro

There has been much
regarding a potential
Twitter Pro account

Features of a pro account
could include:
•Improved security
•Automation
•Better user/follower interaction
•Twitter activity statistics

A pro account could
provide a viable business
model for Twitter, funding
expansion & development

10) Beyond 140
Characters

It’s possible that Twitter
might break the sacred
140 character limit on
user updates.

This opens the door for
different content types to be
uploaded to Twitter directly

If users can consume a variety
of media on Twitter, they will
spend more time there. We
know that loyalty is an issue
for Twitter, this could help.

Bonus Trend!
11) Contextual
Advertising

It would seem Twitter is
exploring the use of text ads

This would work quite well
with content in user-streams
or even in your status

This would also work very
well with Twitter search, and
really turbo-charge Twitter’s
business potential

- Thatʼs It. Thanks for your
attention -

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