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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