What was the first web site you accessed from your mobile phone?
If you are somewhere between 15 and 35, odds are it was Facebook. And if you are a regular Twitter user, your mobile phone has been an indispensable tool for posting Tweets from the beginning.
It’s pretty obvious that the fires that Facebook and Twitter started are rapidly sweeping across the globe…and the fuel that feeds these fires is mobile.
Today, over 100 million of the 400 million Facebook users access the site via mobile and the ‘official’ Twitter Blackberry app that was just released spurred 100,000 new signups in three days and is already driving nearly 2% of all Tweets.
It’s easy to say we have become a mobile society, but it is more appropriate to say we are now a connected society. The rapid adoption of smartphones and Internet enabled feature phones combined with widespread deployment of free wi-fi, has created ubiquitous connectivity for a significant portion of the world’s population.
And we cannot get enough of it. We love to get that direct tweet from a business associate while we are sitting by the pool. We love having the ability to immediately upload the photo we just took to our Facebook page. We are a social animal and now we can be social with a wide network of friends/followers/coworkers everywhere all the time.
As I have said before, the explosion of mobile connectivity is being driven by the largest technology companies in the world and their understanding that the future of personal computing is about the device in your pocket, not the one on your desk or the one in your laptop bag.
This has created a social tsunami with the convergence of mobile technologies, ubiquitous connectivity, our innate desire to be social, and two reasonably stable and well known channels that we are all now adopting, Facebook and Twitter.
Both of them should send Steve Jobs a royalty check.
