It’s most likely a case of cabin fever and general grumpiness from shoveling my way out of the instant tundra that befell New Jersey. I won’t be abandoning Twitter anytime soon for Google Buzz . But Buzz has a few things going for it.
Yes, I do appreciate the placement of Buzz within Gmail, the ability to grab Picassa photos, comment threads (yay!), and easy sharing of Google Reader links.
But I’m also a happy victim of what historians and economists call path dependencies and product lock-in: I came to Buzz after using and enjoying twitter, and I’m unlikely to change my habits.
Naturally, Google understands this and has made its new micro-blogging service enticing: it’s probably marginally easier to do everything I do in twitter with Buzz.
For now, I am voting for diversity and competition within the social media industry and will continue to bring my short post business to twitter—while hedging my bets by automatically reposting tweets to Buzz 😉
Yea, buzz off indeed, but for privacy reasons.