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You’ve been told that twitter is the exciting new technology that’s going to bring web 2.0 to the masses. You’ve seen its pervasiveness. Everyone and their pet cockatoo is tweeting! All you need is a handphone and a penchant for almost anonymous exhibitionism! If you do it right, you could catapult yourself into notoriety with 150 characters (or less)!

I think alot of people remain mildly skeptical, as do I. Somewhere in their reptile brain, they have a niggling little fairy screaming “Hey! Look here!” And do you know why? I’m going to break it down for you, people.

You can’t tweet porn.

That’s right kids. I’m sure someone’s looking deep into the problem right now. The porn makers are staring at twitter, scratching their heads (or scratching something, anyway) and asking themselves
1) how do I get porn on twitter?
2) how do I make money off of that?

All you technopreneurs should sit up and look closely too, because the direction porn takes shapes the world. Or telecommunication technology, anyway. (Betamax/VHS? Porn. Internet direct sales? Porn. The internet? Porn. Blogging driven by ad revenue? Porn.)

The closest idea I can think of is random spam exhorting you to have a look at sw33t hun3ys 4 che4p at twitter.com/porn4u or something like that. But something like that has no pictures and cannot capitalise on other twits’ popularity. Those are the 2 innovations that twitter needs to work on now, in my opinion.
Don’t blast me! I know they have twitter pics and being followed thumbnails (thumbnails? totally a porn innovation from an era of 14.4 kb/s modems) but those are not sufficiently immediate. The innovations that twitter needs to make (and if I’m asserting it, it’s probably not far off) are twitting pictures and video. That’s the genie in the bottle. That’s the bee’s knees, the ants elbows and the rats inguinal joints. Once that happens, sexting will come to twitter. Sure, at first it’ll be obese American teens sweexting their trailer trash boy/girlfriends, but the glory of web 2.0 is that you’ll soon hear which streams are worth examining in minute detail. I’ll be right there with you, fogging up my computer screen.