I saw this great video today predicting some of the future uses and integration of Twitter. S.ome of them are a little bit out there, but I can see how they could come to pass.
Twitter Will Reach Masses of People. Even in 3rd world countries. 1 Billion users?
Twitter users will use more consumer friendly twitter tools.
Status updates will be available across all open social media sites. Facebook, Yahoo, MySpace, and more.
We will laugh at the past when we had to go to each social media site update.
Twitter will be the dominant social media site that plugs in to all others.
Social graphs will be open source and available for others to see. Integration of contacts and groups.
Twitter will be an ideal place to gain a quality reputation for your business.
Twitter will replace SMS because just easier to use and easy to integrate with any phone.
Twitter will replace chat or integrate with current chats.
Location will be one of the most important status updates on twitter. You can share your location with friends.
Private updates will be more important than they currently are.
Public e-commerce public updates like a what you buy and what you shop for will be part of your updates via private only.
Live reviews of place and products will be very important.
Talking to shops and restaurants will become standard for coupon discounts and updates.
Web will be just a fraction of mobile use.
Dating with twitter updates will not be a huge market on twitter.
Twitter will not display ads on their primary screen to keep users happy.
There will be more devices that automatically publish to Twitter. Like scales, food consumption, and energy use.
Corporations will have entire teams devoted to their Twitter accounts. ie customer service
Hyper local news sites on twitter with geo-tagging features will become huge. User generated news.
Google will not acquire Twitter, but will integrate deeply with Twitter.
It will be open source private twitter accounts or programs running just for corporations.
Google and Bing will dominate be tweaked search realm.
Vertical twitter applications will start to appear like StockTweets. Real Estate, FOREX, Fitness, Fashion
Twitter will continue to be mostly used outside of Twitter.com
Twitter will do a better job at helping to regulate communities and maybe even politics. No more lies. Hopefully.
Twitter will always be about you.
Comment and let us know what you think Twitter will become!