Interesting to hear on Episode #164 of Mitch Joel’s awesome Six Pixels of Separation podcast that the barriers to entry for recent adopters of Twitter may be getting too high.
Where in the early days, or even 6 months ago, it was easy to connect and engage with people you respected and position yourself as a thought leader, the sheer volume of content and number of users has made it extremely hard for newbies to get noticed. Case in point: tired of my endless preaching about the virtues of Tweeting, several of my friends signed up only for them to retreat back to the relative safety of Facebook within weeks simply because they didn’t know where to start.
While Twitter’s recent makeover and official 101 guides, etc, are useful starting point the fact that they are even necessary means that the learning curve might have potentially got too steep for most new and occasional users to bother spending the time figuring out.
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