Or so declares Fred Wilson. And I see Josh Kopelman’s on it, too. (Wonder which guy funded it, or both?) 
A buddy of mine gave me the heads-up in a comment a couple hours ago, to my previous post (see below), saying this could be the next big thing at SXSW.
What is it about this time of year? The Web 2.0 crowd just needs something new to get ’em talking? Okay, I’m tryin’ it — gotta see what this is about. Only took me a minute or two to set up my FriendFeed account. Looks kinda like a Twitter that ate its Wheaties… 🙂
Except, this year, aren’t they jumping the gun a bit? ETech and GSP come first, next week, ahead of SXSW. Anyone know how far in advance of SXSW it was last year when Twitter went live? Should be fun to see how long this one will take to break… 🙂
UPDATE (1:30 pm CST): Well, we now have the skinny on who’s behind this one — my friend Brian Solis just posted.
Oooops, your invite got caught and redirected to my Junk folder. First time any of your social invites have ended up there. Is that an omen?
LOL! time will tell….
Hi Graeme!
I can’t remember exactly how long before Twitter launched before SXSW, but I can say that it had a fair start. I remember twittering in November of 2006 and watching it grab a board and surf right into Austin several months later.
Thanks, Brian — I had no idea it was available that far back. So, by the time SXSW came around in March 2007, Twitter had been live for at least four months? Wow.
You must have been an early beta user? I’m a late Twitter-adopter….on purpose 🙂 But it seems to be working pretty well these days, and I do like live-Twittering events.