Starting Thursday, Twitter users will be able to make direct voice calls to each other. The service will be provided by a third party company called Jajah, an Internet communications provider. To use the service, users will have to type in “@call@username to contact someone by voice. Facebook is also using voice communication technology courtesy of Vivox. The pros for this are obvious. This will make it even easier to communicate and network with other Twitter users. If someone sends out a tweet related to Real Estate. You can call this person directly to discuss there tweet. The downside is that users, more specifically telemarketers, will abuse this system. Just imagine being bombarded with voice calls from telemarketers right when opening Twitter. Pretty annoying! Companies will certainly use this loophole to get past the do not call list.This abuse will bring more rules and regulations that will only hurt the Twitter experience. Twitter and Facebook certainly have the right idea, only time will tell if this application will improve the social networking experience.Impact Pt II buy
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This will be really cool. It will be a easy way to get a hold of people by the computer
To be honest…I don’t like the voice idea. A telephone call is a telephone call…a tweet is a tweet. Get where I’m going?