Twitter Could Be a Mini FriendFeed

Last weekend, I got an alert from TwitterMoms, which is a social networking site for mommy bloggers who tweet. It was for a virtual wine tasting via Twitter. How it worked was that you used a hash tag when you posted a tweet related to the wine tasting. In another window, you had a “real-time” search to follow the conversations.

One of my complaints about Twitter is that it is rare when there is a bidirectional conversation. It’s usually one way. Yes, my interactions have gotten better the more people I follow, but it’s still not what I want.

The virtual wine tasting was the first (and only) times that I felt I achieved that. However, I don’t think that Twitter should call it “real time” because it wasn’t. For the early adopters of FriendFeed, it’s like the old “Standard” view. In order to see the new tweets, you had to keep refreshing.

Other than that, I have to say that I was impressed because it showed the potential for Twitter to become a microblogging service with bidirectional conversations. For now, Twitter needs to play catch up.

I am happy that I participated.  I met some great mommy tweeters who I never would have probably found in another way. =D