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Twitter vs. Second Life: A N00b Takes Another Look – PC World
Posted in: Blog, Industry News, Twitter by SpiderWriters on October 1, 2009
Overhyped technology poster child of 2009, meet your counterpart from 2006. We’re talking about Twitter — which, by our reckoning, entered the mainstream at the beginning of this year — and Second Life, the virtual world which went through its own hype phase in 2006 (BusinessWeek: “Virtual worlds abound in useful business applications!”) before being brought roughly back to earth.
But not all hype is created equal. In a June 2009 blog entry for AdAge, PR executive Chris Abraham compared the two services, and concluded that Twitter’s hype cycle is more sustainable than that of Second Life. Why?
“Twitter is light, cheap, open and permanent, whereas Second Life is heavy, expensive, closed and ephemeral. Twitter does things right where Second Life failed.”
Predictably, this description fired up the critics, including Prokofy Neva (real name: Catherine Fitzpatrick), a long-time Second Life resident who is also a rapid-fire Twitter user (17,223 tweets as of this writing). While she agreed that Twitter is overhyped, she also questioned the comparisons of the two services. Twitter, she noted, is “not a place where you can build relationships and collaborate.”
Read more: PC World.
