Twitter, made for humain, suited for machine.

again, lost in thoughts about a better future for twitter.

I have to confess it the question "what are you doing now" is intimidating.

none are doing interesting stuff every time or at every moment of their daily life.

the question "what are you doing now" encapsulate in itself the future the prophetical twitter destiny.

I was trying to visualize the impact of twitter on human life, on human behavior, on human evolution, then this damned question make it clear for me :


it is cristal clear that twitter is fuzzy.

twitter as a system is a fuzzy one, the quest of comprehension is a quest for the holly grail.

1) twitter isn't for conversation.
2) twitter isn't for idea spreading.

may be twitter is just for event reporting no more.

again the question "what are you doing now" gives me more detail on how human approach twitter, on how people interact with that concept.

they are just answering a question keeping in mind the 140 limitation.

"what are you doing now" is doubly frustrating :

1) no one want to always share what he (she) is doing right now.
2) it is too short to describe what people may doing in 140 caracters.

in the earlier step twitter was a tool for human, it was the holly tool tha make people share a bit of their life with strange people, they can do via the mobile the web or any other application, by the time twitter become the new TV concept, and in this era people escaped the TV to the INTERNET.

now, I am a fanatic of usability. (mean people have to make better uses of what they have in hand).

my question is how could we make twitter more useful?

in the first days, twitter was a trigger a human trigger that enabled human to trigger each other with a 140 characters message that encapsulate a temporal answer to an eternal question : "what are you doing now".

my proposition is to elevate twitter to a height level.

I am thinking about a twitter that will be a machine trigger, a big really big and real time shell.

where message will be commanded.

could we some days uses twitter to send command to third part web service?
could we some days uses twitter as a real time bridge between third part web services?

until then, I will try to find a more original answer to this arrogant question :
"what are you doing now"