Google's First Real Threat? Twitter. Twitter knows what our most read post is. It was retweeted more than any other. They have the data. Google does not (or they have to look a lot harder to get it). This same information disparity exists across all sorts of potential queries. They have the opinions of millions of people on what really matters.
This data is gold. If Twitter’s model includes some tax to using the system (as some have proposed), I think they are crazy. The more info they get, the more value they create. How will they use it? Well, we will see. But, if I was Google, I would be paying attention.
Google Next Victim Of Creative Destruction? Twitter search today is crude — but so was Google.com once upon a not so long time ago.
How Tweet It Is: Sure, the Twitter guys still have no idea how to make money off their fabulous invention. But for now they are living in a dreamworld of infinite possibilities, maybe the last one on Earth.
[act.: Should Twitter Verify Celebrity Accounts? Today, Twitter suspended the OHHDL account]
