Mmm... Yeah, I agree that they are very different but my personal folk anthropology of both is that they share many of the same audiences/user groups -kind of. Twitter functions on the basis of the limit of characters in a text message, but as these user groups shift over to more computer-like phones or other objects that can blog, Twitter's basics seem obsolete. I think Tumblr does for people what Twitter does (the following function) with a broader spectrum of media.
Ah yeah, I realized what you meant after I posted.
If there's one thing that's true about all of these, it's that there's never a linear progression of this kills that.
I was, at one point, signed up for every one of these services I could find. But that was strictly for research purposes, mind you.
I don't think the twitter thing is doomed, most people post from the web, not their phones, anyway. It's the simplicity that the 140 character count demands that's the appeal.
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What's that have to do with Twitter?
I was wondering the same thing. Twitter to Tumblr is apples to oranges.
Twitter's recent $500m offer from Facebook makes Tumblr's $4.5m funding seem like peanuts.
Mmm... Yeah, I agree that they are very different but my personal folk anthropology of both is that they share many of the same audiences/user groups -kind of. Twitter functions on the basis of the limit of characters in a text message, but as these user groups shift over to more computer-like phones or other objects that can blog, Twitter's basics seem obsolete. I think Tumblr does for people what Twitter does (the following function) with a broader spectrum of media.
Ah yeah, I realized what you meant after I posted.
If there's one thing that's true about all of these, it's that there's never a linear progression of this kills that.
I was, at one point, signed up for every one of these services I could find. But that was strictly for research purposes, mind you.
I don't think the twitter thing is doomed, most people post from the web, not their phones, anyway. It's the simplicity that the 140 character count demands that's the appeal.
... I think that its information turnover rate is just a quick as it is with Twitter.
I'll confess that I have a special love for tumblr also. I just added commenting. link
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