About video replacing text
Just a small snippet of a reply I sent out to someone while discussing video taking over text. This mainly in relation to Twitter and other micro-blogging applications as well as communication between people in general.
Twitter became big mostly because of text messaging. It took years for every device and almost every user to have text messaging available to them, then a service that utilized it was possible. Video does not have the option to be ubiquitous like text is. Great, you me and 20% of at&t subscribers are going to have phones that can post their stupid videos to myspace. That is not enough users with devices that have the technology to make a difference right now.