Twitter may have crossed the chasm.

Last summer you were kind of a weirdish trendsetter if you were on Twitter.  It was a new tool with a few million hard-core users and tons of people who registered accounts, didn’t understand it, and never used it again.

Just a few short months later it seems like it’s everywhere.  People still don’t necessarily ‘get’ it, but they’re using it!  Six months ago if I went to a business function and asked people to raise their hands if they used twitter, I’d be lucky to get a handful.  Now it seems like the whole room lights up.

Why the sudden transformation?  Well, I can really only speak from my experience here in Indianapolis, though I imagine the same phenomenon is happening elsewhere.  People are really talking about it!  It seems to be on the tip of every-one’s tongue.

I should start counting the number of times I get asked about Twitter on any given day.  Weather it’s friends, family, or business contacts, everyone wants to know something about it.  Is this the beginning of the end or just the beginning of the beginning?