What’s the Future of Twitter? 30 Tweeting Predictions

What’s next for Twitter? According to Seesmic founder Loic Le Meur, it’ll be a hub of hyperlocal news, be used more by devices than humans (eg. cars that Tweet their location) and replace chat applications for many people.

Le Meur, answering the questions for last week’s 140conf Twitter Conference in LA, also predicts that GoogleGoogle and BingBing will become the main ways to search TwitterTwitter, although Google will build its own version of Twitter rather than buying the service.

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