Twitter Packs were supposed to be a helpful guide for new Twitter users. Organizing Twitter people by all manner of things you can organize people by (interests, companies, locations) the Twitterpacks Wiki was supposed to be a grand, self organizing list of people you might want to check out if you’re new to Twitter. And, it was; for all of 5 hours during the middle of the day on January 28th, 2008.
In a sign of how quickly things can turn in this fast moving social web, the Twitter Packs went from revered to reviled faster than you can say “zeitgeist.”
People who had added their own listing, and entries for their own Twitter tribes of friends and contacts removed their listings only hours, or minutes after self-adding them. Claiming that Twitter Packs encouraged cliques, or were organized in ways with which they didn’t agree, during a time in the late afternoon it seemed some of the more easily offended Twitter-holics couldn’t remove their info from the Wiki fast enough.
For my part, I’d really like to thank Chris Brogan for coming up with the idea and giving it a shot. Twitter Packs had a shorter shelf life than that Pope who got poisoned, but Chris is at least owed a thank you for having the guts to try and fail.
Update: Thanks for pinging me about fixing my broken comment system Chris Brogan and Amber Rhea
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