Scoble and Twitter hug: A cell phone moment

The most interesting thing about blogger Robert Scoble's video interview with Twitter founders Evan Williams and Biz Stone is that he covered one of the "scoops" of modern technology in an ad-hoc report with a cell phone video camera.

Twitter, as you've surely read, is the uber-popular messaging service that has grown a little too quickly, and its small team of engineers is now frantically trying to rebuild the architecture before users get really PO'd and move on. Evan Williams notes in this interview that his team didn't really know what they were building two years ago, structured Twitter as a content management vs. messaging service, and have been shocked to find users such as Scoble broadcasting messages to 20,000+ users every five seconds. Now, they are trying to rebuild Twitter while millions of users Tweet away, a task akin to changing tires on a car while it moves at 90 mph.

The interview is a nice piece of 2008 history. The real story is how the proliferation of cell phones with video and web access will change media reporting. Scoble had been having arguments with Stone, asked if he could come over, and suddenly a 20-20 style video interview was being captured. Just wait until Apple loads a Carl Zeiss lens and decent video capture into the next iPhone, and soon the news will be everywhere bloggers who knock on doorways can find it.