After Twitter Micro Blogging It is Flutter Nano Blogging Now – New Nanoblogging Flutter

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My Twitter friend Jay Martin posted the new 26 letters’ nano blogging system Flutter. His estimates are almost correct to say that Flutter cuts down the time to read or write a post to close to a second!

After the great success of Twitter, it was clear someone will think of competeing & the only way to compete with Twitter is changing the number of letters you could type. While Twitter lets you type in 140 characters, Flutter lets you do it with 26 letters!

The article by Kara Swisher on Viral Video: Forget Twitter, Google–How About Acquiring Nanoblogger Flutter? gives a good perspective on the developments on the blogging front, highlighting the strong rumors of Google trying to acquire one!

While I enjoyed listening to the 3 & a half minute video conversation on Flutter, it leaves me with a few questions. As an online blogger & a publisher, you too could be seriously thinking about these as well:

1. How much did you really benefit from Twitter? This has got nothing to do with what Twitter can or cannot do for you, but how much has Twitter brought you value in the past 6 – 12 months?

2. What has been the effect of 140 letters’ conversations? As either marketers or online business owners, have these 140 characters really been effective to you?

3. If you have used Twitter to get inbound traffic, how much have you really succeeded?

4. If you are an MLM or Affiliate marketer, how have you used Twitter apart from posting deals & some great opportunities?

5. How have your time spent on Twitter affected your spend time on Facebook or MySpace or any of the popular social networking sites?

5. Have Twitter enabled you to stop using any instant messaging system like AOL AIM or MSN?

6. How have to connected your RSS readers & Twitter followers? Have Twitter replaced your RSS readers?

While I am still new to Twitter & still learning the ropes, it has neither replaced my RSS readers or my network on Facebook or AIM or MSN. I still continue to focus on Feedburner followers & Facebook fans for help & suggestions.

Having said that, I cannot think of creating a specific opportunity for Flutter at this time. Unless you use all symbols to convey a message or use acronyms, the only use could be to publish tiny URLs to communicate – not a healthy way to build a long standing business relation!

Other posts I have read on the Introduction of Flutter are here:

• Mashable – Flutter Mocks You, Me and Our Microblogging Addiction
• Huffington Post -What Comes After Twitter? Flutter
• Download Squad -Flutter: Like Twitter in 26 characters (but not really)
• Pulse 2 Technology Reviews – Flutter Is Like Twitter, But Is Only 26 Characters
• Slate V’s mock on YouTube – Flutter NanoBlogging