What is a Twimera?

Twitter has been generating a lot of buzz, if you'll pardon the onomatopoeic contradiction. First they bought Tweetdeck, then they introduced the Follow button, and now they've announced that in partnership with Photobucket they're going to be taking photosharing and hosting in-house, as opposed to leaving it up to third party developers like it has been until now.

Twitter is pretty amazing because they gave permission to the users to decide how they would like to use it instead of telling them. Now they're building on that foundation and by looking at where they've started we can sorta kinda guess at their intentions.

Tweetdeck makes using Twitter very, very easy on a computer, so they have a platform to flesh out their web presence. The Follow Button makes connecting a one stop affair, (similar to the Facebook Like or Google's +1), and the combination of hashtags, video and photosharing mean information of any sort is categorised and at your fingertips in real time.

This is total conjecture of course but if you put all the pieces together, stand back a bit and squint through one eye, Twitter may very well be shaping up to become a chimera that existing animals like search engines, browsers and social media platforms should be very wary of. Maybe most importantly, it's built to work seamlessly across multiple platforms and was born post mobile bubble boom, and that could be the most important factor of all.