You can’t really complain about Twitter being hard to use, because it is not. I am yet to come across a person who tells me he or she couldn’t send a message the first time he/she faced was faced with the interface.
Of course, time has seen the addition of a couple of functionalities that delineate the service differently – retweets, hashtags… and I suppose that the inspiration behind the service I am reviewing right now was taking any single shred of complication away.
If anything, the guys who programmed Txt.io have gone too far into the opposite direction as this new microsharing tool offers nothing but a text editor and a button that reads”Post”. You log in by way of your Google account, and you are automatically able to start using this service and message whomever you want.
I thought about Twitter a lot after using this app. Txt.io has kitsch value and little else. “Simple” and “absolutely bereft of options” are not the same. Txt.io is so bereft of options that it is pointless. Twitter, on the other hand, is simple. It might be one of the easiest-to-use tools you can find, and if you were to take away the infamous shortages and some unfortunate incidents like the Iranian hacking at the end of 2009 it would be as prestigious as it is widespread. I frankly think these things will improve in time, and 2010 has already been touted as the critical year for Twitter.
Txt.io In Their Own Words
“Elitist microblogging.”
Why Txt.io It Might Be A Killer
Those who wonder how much can Twitter be stripped down will find the answer here.
Some Questions About Txt.io
Will anybody use something like this willingly? Can it displace Twitter on anybody’s mind? 
