A case study in how you leverage community on Twitter, Google Wave has been overpowering the Twittisphere with requests for Google Wave invites. I’ve highlighted some of the outrageous, funny and sarcastic tweets. Below is a thumbnail sketch of went went on during the last 24 hours:
The Shocking:
Some people will do anything to get into the best restaurant, a popular club, tickets for the Superbowl, or apparently a Google Wave invite.
The Hilarious
Sarcastic, witty and downright insightful.
Google Wave Pacts
Taking a page out of the Survivor papaya play book, these enterprising individuals are taking the quid pro quo route.
The Disappointed
Call a therapist please.
Those with Capitalist Motives
Nothing like scarcity to create demand and our capitalistic impulses.
The Wishful
Let’s hope someone takes pity on the despondent.
From the Beat Them When they’re Down Department
Delusional?
Yes, Google Wave will solve all of the world’s problems.
Completely out of Touch
I think we need to help them out from under the rock they’ve been hiding.
@mttgamer – Appears to be the Harry Potter of Google Wave – magically creating Wave invites at will.
(Cross-posted @ Seek Omega … or is it Seek Wave?
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The pathetic thing about the Wave-crazyness is that it is not even remotely useful at this point. I understand developers, like myself who had a developer account for a few months, wants to play with the API to create interesting services with Wave. But an average user? Looking beyond the slow, cluttered and hard to navigate UI, and focusing on what a user actually can do with Google Wave today. Nothing at all. And it will remain so for a while. Wave will become something useful in the future. But it will become ubiquitous to the point that users will not know they are using the Wave. They will be using it from a wide range of different clients using a wide range of different services that will help them collaborate. As the way e-mail is used today.