Recently I was introduced to Twitter and quickly became smitten with the notion of hyper-relevancy and hyper affinity.  Take the “sound byte” and put it to good use – ie, collaboration.  As a newbie to social media, I have been fascinated by the direct correlation of success to openness. Many of us spent a long time not believing in this however if we think about Linux, Drupal, Joomla, wikipedia – at minimum you can not deny the power and effectiveness of the model.  And overtime, someone like me has evolved to the point of “why be anything but open?”   Twitter is a fast way to source collaboration leads and opportunities.  At it is lowest form, it is a PR vehicle and you can see who is paying their publicists for the “retweets.” I am not advocating socialism, frankly, I think it’s great – message and build market.  But what happens when tools like twitter create factions instead of markets. Is it simply fair competition or undermining the potential for collaboration?  How does the “open” landscape change? We all deal with sour tweets like spammers and robots.  But trying to create tweet-exclusives, blocking reciprocal tweets seems anti-twitter. 

Check out this link. I think it says a lot -- what kind of bird do you want to be? And what is the impact to your neighborly currency.  Twitterbirds

There's room for everyone – We are at a time in history – where everyone’s business acumen, skills and dreams  can make a difference – why the sour tweets now when collaboration has never been so important.I truly welcome your thoughts, comments and perspective.