At a recent American Marketing Association luncheon, the speaker recommended no more than 30 tweets a day on Twitter. Outside of an act of God or natural disaster, what organization or person has that much worthwhile information? Twitter currently supports 50,000,000 tweets per day, with an average of 600 per second, pushing even the biggest and best tweets out of this universe.

Unlike Facebook, Twitter does not require a community or network to participate. Anyone can follow a celebrity, government official, or any person or organization immediately and without approval and regardless of the type of account. So while the noise is greater than relationship social networking, the opportunities to reaching someone outside of your network, is also greater.

Working to combat Twitter's challenges, veteran tech developer Bill Gross of Tweetup.com and founder of Idealab, recently launched a new start-up. Like paid internet searches, Gross is out to build a better search engine, filtering tweets with paid bids on key works and the ranking of retweets.

Twitter also announced a feature, called @anywhere, which will allow you to embed Twitter functionality, right into your website with only a few lines of javascript. Several organizations have committed to integrating, including: Amazon, msnbc, and the New York Times.

Love technology, but is newer always better?

Typewriter
1873-1983
Best Part: That clickety-clackety-ding meant business.

Pay Telephone
1889-1995
Best Part: As a high schooler, my mom would have me put a dime in my shoe when I went on a date (seriously), just in case I needed to phone home.

Wine Corks
1 A.D. - 2009
Best Part: The satisfying pop of pulling the cork is a ritual of celebration.

Drinking Fountains
1906 - 2007
Best Part: Who wants to tote a water bottle everywhere? With land fill concerns, maybe we'll see this one make a come back.

Computer Mouse
1964 - 2010(?)