Panel Members
Laura Fitton – Pistachio & oneforty.com
John Yamasaki – Yama – Community Evangelist at Seesmic
Robert Scoble – Scobleizer – Tech Journalist/Blogger/Rackspace
Nick Halstead – Aggregates every tweet
Amita Paul – Founder of Objective Marketer

What are the Top 3 most indispensible Twitter tools to you?
Laura – twhirl, Tweetie blah blah filler politically correct stuff no opinion
John – Seesmic Web, Tweetie,
Scoble – Tweetie, Listorious, Tweetmeme, Redux (shows all videos of people you are following)
Nick – Friend or Follow, Cotweet, Echofon
Amita – Objective Marketer, Tweetie

What could Twitter do better?
Nick – Because it’s so open, it has been harder for developers to make money. You build a site, go get traffic yourself, you cannot send emails, you can only communicate through the medium. facebook is different. Because it’s more closed, you have the user base set and can directly contact them.
Amita – I would rather let Twitter be what it is. It’s not Twitter’s problem, it’s the developers because they need to have a business model before they build an app.
Laura – More communication. Twitter is trying so hard to catch up with the developers that their silence is often fear-inducing. Innovation will get better when it is being sustained.

What is the greatest threat to Twitter?
Scoble – facebook, but Twitter keeps
Nick – activitystrea.ms, but no one is competing with them for at least this year
Amita – facebook.
Laura – Twitter is not going away. They are going to walk a fine line between innovating and letting others innovate for them.

What corporate tools are people using?
John – Google Buzz
Nick – Cotweet
Amita –

How do they keep tweets from the past few weeks?
John - Scalability is a problem with Twitter
Scoble - they need more metadata in tweets. If I could tag tweets, then I could search by tags.
Laura – disagrees with Robert. The Twitter ecosystem has it covered.
Scoble – you cant find the hudson river pic! You can through friendfeed because of metadata, but only because people commented on it.

Time: 4:08PM. Notes end. Panel ends at 4:30.

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