Is Twitter dying?

Good Morning everyone! A glorious early Spring morning here in Minnesota!

Thought I'd pop in a post from one of my favorite writers and thinkers,

Seth Godin, who weighs in on this recent provocative topic…Our mission at newprimetime.com

is to educate, inform, and inspire enough of you in midlife to join us as we teach AND learn all we can about social networking

and how to use it to improve our business and our quality of living.

"Masters create the path while they walk on it."

One of our partners and friends, Dr. Patrick Williams gave us that last week as we explained we weren't experts,

just learning ourselves what all this fuss is about with social networking!

Our main theme is to bring you the resources to answer the big question of

"what is the good life in midlife?"

We have some exciting news.

We have been working on our first launch program in social marketing and are just about ready to let you know about it..so hang on and we promise to let you in on how to actually get started in Social media and social networking in Plain English-in a couple of days!

Elizabeth

"Friction saves the medium

Email is dying because it's free. If you can send an email for free to 100 of your closest friends, instantly, you probably won't abuse the privilege. But someone else will because they might define 'friend' differently than you or I.

100 times 100 is ten thousand. Spam.

So now, people don't reply when you send them a resume, because it costs too much to do that ten thousand times.

Twitter is next. The paradox is obvious: to grow, you need to remove friction from the medium. If it's not easy and free to use, people won't. But then it gets big and it becomes profitable, so people use it too much.

The churn rate at twitter http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/twitter-quitters-post-roadblock-to-long-term-growth/is reported as more than 50%. That's because of lack of friction as well. Easy to get in, easy to get out.

Stamps are underrated. Friction rewards intent and creates scarcity."