All Aboard The Micro-Message Bus

At the beginning of 2009, during a now-famous strategy meeting , Twitter’s executives asked themselves, “Are we building a new Internet?” At the crux of that question was the realization that Twitter “introduced a new form of communication to the world.” Public micro-messages are now everywhere—on Twitter, Facebook , MySpace , Google , Bing , Yahoo , AIM . They are infiltrating every part of the Web, particularly as the backbone of realtime search. Yes, status updates (which are a form of micro-message) existed before Twitter, but it is the growing public nature of these messages which makes them exciting.

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All Aboard The Micro-Message Bus