Why is Twitter winning when it isn’t the best? It’s the swarm and peeps who win out.

Tim Walker and I were chatting on Twitter this morning about Twitter, Jaiku, and Pownce.  It started with my question: “How many folks here also update Pownce and Jaiku? Both have fallen off my radar, eventhough both have more features.”
Sure I could update both Pownce and Jaiku through Twhirl, but why?  I don’t go there to check replies, conversations or threads.  Through the conversation of tweets and DMs, Tim and I agreed that this smelled like a great blog post.  He beat me to the punch:
Is that enough to explain its success? I don’t know — but I’d love to …read more