I was on PBS Marketplace this morning talking about Twitter with technology & entrepreneur reporter Mitchell Hartman. We were discussing the future of Twitter and how it is moving into directions that is not obvious to many just yet. Here are a few quotes from the clip:

“Rodney Rumford is author of the book “Twitter as a Business Tool”: Programmers could find a way to tie into the machine-language level and interface that with real-world, let’s call them “life-hack” type of devices. This means machines communicating with other machines, plants or animals communicating with us. It also means we can interact with the computers that crunch all the data being collected every minute on Twitter.”

“Rumford says Twitter is allowing us to create new social intelligence about ourselves at breakneck speed. They’ve really developed the tube, if you will, for this data to flow through. And an easy tube to plug into. Rumford’s favorite new toy: a GPS mapping program that tracks fellow-tweeters in real-time so you can go meet them for drinks or a movie. If you can put your cell phone down that long.”

Have a listen to the audio clip from the radio program.

You can grab the full show notes and resources mentioned over at Marketplace:

As an interesting side note. The PBS reporter Mitchell Hartman @entrepreneurguy live tweeted his highlights from the show as it aired live on the radio. (we were both up at 3:49am Pacific Time for this)