A taste of web 3.0: Kevin Rose gets a cold, creates Twitter account for it, hundreds follow in minutes

It’s one thing when former vice president, Academy Award winner and Nobel Prize winner Al Gore signs up for Twitter and gets over 17,000 followers within a few days, it’s another when Digg founder Kevin Rose creates a Twitter account for his cold and it gains hundreds of followers in minutes.

The account has one tweet:

hanging out w/@kevinrose, making his head hurt and nose stuffed up… hopefully he’ll take me to @digg tomorrow.

People always want to know what Web 3.0 will be, and when it will get here. This is Web 3.0. It’s here.

Find me on Twitter here.

(I don’t have a cold so I have no Twitter account for it, but when I do, I will.)

  • qthrul
    I imagine that an autonomous device such as a biometrics pendant or other uber-Nike iPod Health Kit won't be far off. Medical telematics / telemetry and remote sensing has enjoyed a serious tear over the past few years.


    So, your networked health device could provide injection of specific health characteristics to a federated updates service. This would be interesting for mild sickness applications. Again, it's just another area that integrative medicine could go -- holistic could encompass a range of metrics gathering from the patient.



    You could have @campbellsoups do a DM to @parislemonscold with links to chunky chicken soup coupon deals or a at the checkout private code tied to your affinity membership at the big box supermarket you use.



    Or put more simply, if Google can do Flu, why can't Nike do "you"?
  • Steve Ballmer
    Twitter is for no-lifers! Seriously people, get a life!
  • Kyle Judkins
    I saw that happen in real time yesterday, and I couldn't stop laughing. I was impressed at the quick response it got and the number of retweets I saw for it. If this is Web 3.0, I'm ready for more.
  • Stijn
    Web 3.0? This is already Web 4.0 mate, where have u been yesterday?
  • MacDavid
    that's too funny!
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