At the 140conf conference in LA, Jeff Pulver asked me to think about the future of Twitter and even though I obviously have no crystal ball, I took some risks and here you go, I gathered my predictions here, in the form of “tweet slides” so you might want to watch the video too. Some of those predictions were suggested to me by my friends on Twitter, let me know if I missed one credit as I prepared it… in realtime).

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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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Seesmic is a video start-up I’ve shied away from writing about too often, because I’m not sure I really get it. But I figure if so many smart people think there’s something good going on here, I should keep an eye on what the company is doing. So last week we had founder and CEO Loïc Le Meur on the “GigaOM Show,” where I and co-host Joyce Kim got to ask him what’s the big idea.

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