Like many high-tech confabs, the annual South by Southwest festival in Austin is billed as a showcase of new-world culture.
South by Southwest sees over-tweet-ification
So what was the leading new-world observation at last weekend’s event? Twitter overload.
It was at the festival two years ago that Twitter burst on the scene. This year, however, attendees complained of quite the opposite: too many tweets.
The big question is whether the SXSW’s saturation with Twitter is an early sign that over-tweet-ification is seeping into everyday life.
Two years ago at SXSW, Twitter was actually useful, Forrester Senior Analyst Jeremiah Owyang wrote in a tweet from the festival. “Now it is just overload.”
It is not hard to imagine a similar overload burdening everyday use as new members continue to sign up and screens fill with hundreds of tweets.
The realization may be that smaller networks of tweet-buddies are more useful than larger ones. But what does that do to Twitter’s business model?
Posted by Mark Boslet 
