Jeremiah Owyang has a winner for Twitter

Jeremiah recently held a competition asking everyone one question

I’ll be giving it away to who bests answers the following question: “24 months from now, where will Twitter be? What will Twitter look like, how will we use it differently than today?”

Source: Jeremiah Owyang’s website

Apparently there was several entrants to the event and 8 finalists when Andrew Finkle surged past everyone with this theory for Twitter in 2 years and I must say its a good one. Identica are you taking notes?

Twitter will look more like an operating system in 2 years. The Majority of its users will not even have to go to twitter.com to use the service. Twitter will instead be the platform whereby others embed twitter functionality directly into their own applications. As a result, Twitter will be different things, to different people.

For some, the twitter OS will allow them to join a social network on the fly. This might be based on the location of a tweet, the content of the tweet, the profile of the tweeter. Some Tweeters will not even be human, they will be anyone or anyTHING.

A Tweet will be whatever one wants it to be (not constrained by 140 characters of text)..A Tweet might be multimedia, voice, video, etc.

The truest value of Twitter will be how it allows one to broadcast whatever (voice, video, data), to whoever (followers, family, friends, readers (a better RSS), however (via browser, sms, email, etc) Twitter will be one of the most valuable net properties (along with Firefox)…why? Because they are OPEN. They ARE the ecosystem.

Source: Jeremiah Owyang, but written by Andrew Finkle

What my question is to all of you is what do you think of Andrews winning answer? Would you agree, disagree or is he way off swimming in shallow water?

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Rahsheen 1 month ago 1 point
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At it's core, this sounds pretty cool and seems pretty plausible, but I don't think it will be Twitter that becomes this...unless they make some MAJOR changes (fixes?).

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Roger Kondrat 1 month ago 1 point
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Rahsheen, yeah it is high on cool factor and a great product strategy and I
think I tip my hat when I said 'Identica take notes' because with all of
Twitters troubles they definitely don't have a straight-line to success,
which is too bad because they have had such a lead. That being said how
many great products have innovated slowly and still succeed because they
were first...

Only time will tell. Thanks for your thoughts Ra :)

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Rahsheen 1 month ago 1 point
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That is definitely true. Slow and steady does often when the race. I
think the fact that there is now some competition in the
micro-blogging arena will force someone to take it to another level.

Twitter users keep looking over at Identi.ca trying to figure out what
the big deal is and why they should bother moving. Features such as
the ones described here would definitely turn some heads and
differentiate the two services.

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