What if Twitter Goes Away?

Twitter is going through some things. For the life of The Cloudcast, it’s been our ERP, CRM, Collaboration and PR engine. What if it goes away? Are there lessons to be learned?

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IT’S CRAZY NOW, BUT IT’S ALWAYS BEEN SORT OF CRAZY….AND USEFUL

• Lots of apps tell you what you know, Twitter helps you find what you don’t know
• Twitter can be real-time, or the beginning of deep-dive scrolling
• Twitter is the most difficult to understand, but the most valuable

DEPENDENCE ON TWITTER IS MORE COMPLEX THAN A SINGLE CLOUD

• Twitter removes the barriers of journalists, we get news and opinions and insights
• Twitter has always given us a way to do research into new things 
• Twitter has helped us build friendships with people we’ve never met
• Did we make a mistake in being too reliant on Twitter? Were there other options?

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