Twitter , one of the first offerings from Ev Williams’ Obvious Corp ., crossed the chasm and became passe…

From what I’ve heard, the big carriers are all worried about getting bad press over stalkers abusing mobile social net services, which is why MySpace had to go with a MVNO. But to be successful on the mobile side you don’t have to duplicate a desktop experience. In fact I’d wager that you can’t duplicate the desktop and be successful. If I’m on my phone, I don’t want to search around for people I don’t know (way too time consuming), I want to connect with the people I already do know. It’s a perfect addition to an existing social service, such as MySpace.

That being said, MySpace has its hands full and hasn’t exactly been innovative in the past, so it’s not something I expect from them. Maybe Murdoch can get out his wallet again and buy the innovation, but I’m not exactly holding my breath. They haven’t even launched a decent advertising program yet, so I’m sure this is really far down the queue.

I’m starting to understand the many copycat mobile soc-net sites popping up…acquisition targets, anyone?

Podcasting startup Odeo launched a mobile focused side project dubbed twttr this weekend. The free service brings social networking features to regular SMS. Unlike Dodgeball, twttr is not limited to a select set of cities. twttr is accessible through t…

In general I think this is a pretty cool service. It would be best with small groups of people that hang out with eachother a lot. I would probably want 4-5 people in mine. By default messages no longer get posted online (for the public) which is nice.

This should have been something MySpace launched. It is a natural extension of what people are doing on MySpace and would be something a lot of users would enjoy for a subset of their friends list. Sort of like there is a top 8 now, just drag some of your friends into your ‘phone list’ and bam you’re hooked into the matrix.

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That’s where the rubber meets the road.

you bring up an interesting point and i have to agree with you - not much in terms of innovation per se. what i see it as an on-the-go blogging tool, which needs to installation whatsoever. i think there needs to be major improvement in the presence-information system for it to really have a long term impact.

i think it is a good idea, which now others can improve upon.

They spend all their time at “in” parties. Do random stuff ’cause it is cool. They haven’t done anything with their core product, while more scrappy and focused players like (link) and (link) close the gap on them.

Lame post Om.

That said, what’s the differentiator for twttr? Isn’t it basically dodgeball-lite? As best I can tell, it lacks the “you’re in proximity to peeps” feature of dodgeball, which IMO is killer. Granted, twttr works anywhere in the states or Canada, whereas dodgeball is currently limited to certain cities (unfortunately, not including mine). But that’s a problem that dodgeball can address, and then where’s twttr?

I must be missing the innovation on this(?).

Seen a lot of group SMS already and given there are CUG(Closed User Groups) already this could be directly extended to that..maybe?