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We Are the Water Cooler We Want to See: 2009 Will Be the End of the Echo Chamber.

December 29, 2008
by Charlie O'Donnell
Co-Founder and CEO, Path101.com, Blogger, This is Going to be BIG

Charlie O'Donnell

Saturday, Loïc Le Meur blogged that “We’re not equal on Twitter, as we’re not equal on blogs and on the Web.” He was talking about the need for Twitter to start filtering searches by authority–and by authority he means the number of people following them.

It’s laughable…the idea that someone has “authority” because a lot of people pay attention to it. Isn’t that the most anti-Web 2.0 thing you’ve ever heard? Did we forget about the long tail? Wasn’t that the whole point? Level playing field…hear the small voices…excuse me, is this thing on?

So, mark this date down. Dec. 27, 2008, is the day that the digerati jumped the shark–the day that a guy who raised $12 million for a video blog commenting platform with no revenues or any idea of what the business model would be told the world that he only wants to listen to Twitter users with a lot of followers.

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