Twitter has emerged a huge generator of mobile messages, dwarfing text messages, for example.
That should convince some mobile marketers that Twitter is a channel they ought to be using.
Others will see too much "clutter" and might prefer text messaging as a channel.
But SMS remains a highly-personal medium where the risk of end user irritation is quite high.
Twitter might be a more congested channel, but the risk of end user irritation is far lower.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Twitter or Text? Clutter Might be a Factor
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text messaging,
Twitter
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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