Blog Focus on Twitter's @Anywhere
Tech and social media bloggers are buzzing about Twitter CEO Evan Williams' announcement of the new @anywhere platform at SXSW. The announcement was highly anticipated, although it didn't answer the monetization questions a lot of folks still want to be answered. Instead, the @anywhere announcement has raised a lot of other questions.
Mathew Ingram at GigaOM is a little confused about what the platform actually does: "[The official announcement] isn’t much help when it comes to answering the question of what the new service is — or at least it’s not as much help as you might expect it to be, what with this being one of the most hotly awaited SXSW keynotes in recent memory."
Technologizer's Harry McCracken doesn't quite get it either, but he is nevertheless "intrigued … both as a Twitter user and as a publisher who might be interested in adding @anywhere to my site."
Frederic Lardinois at ReadWriteWeb thought the keynote itself was "rather forgettable," but the @anywhere platform "will have wide-reaching consequences for Twitter and its ecosystem."
Meanwhile, Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch speculates that the new @anywhere platform is "Twitter’s answer to Facebook Connect." Will tensions in the social media world rise as the competition heats up?
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