Twitter Finding Its Voice – No Thanks

The IP communications company Jajah, Inc. launched this service – Jajah@call – and participants must be both Twitter and Jajah users.

The same article said that earlier this week Viox “announced that engineers there are working on an application that should enable Facebook users -- whether individuals or groups -- to have voice chats online. Vivox said it's looking to add a new dimension to online reunions or meetings.”

Personally, I can buy into such chats for Facebook when it is for a specific “meeting.” Yet, I do not want to either call my Twitter followers or have them call me.

The beauty of Twitter is that you can tweet on your own schedule and your followers can reply on their own schedule. And the 140-character limit requires that people “edit” their thoughts.

I can only imagine what being interrupted by a two-minute conversation would be like. (Apparently these phone conversations can take part without having the other person’s phone number.) Two minutes is actually quite a long time for someone to babble about whatever he or she is doing.

Plus this new service would lose one of the most important benefits of Twitter – sharing clickable links of valuable information with your followers.

Thanks but no thanks. In my book every new Twitter application does not mean progress.

Written by Phyllis Zimbler Miller
Social Media Marketing
Los Angeles, CA
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