About that video on Loïc’s blog : « I recently gave a short talk at Jeff Pulver’s 140conf in Los Angeles and since I did not have enough time and some of you were interested I put together this video with the 30 predictions. » The main points…

• It will reach masses of people
• They won’t use 
the same tools as we do
• It will not be only about Twitter
  -status updates will be open across social software
  -all social software will have status updates
  -Facebook has 40+ million updates a day
• Twitter will still be dominant
 in status updates
  it’s the motherboard on which we plug in
• We will laugh thinking we were updating them all manually
• The social graph 
will also open up
• Twitter will be big to get an idea of a person or a brand reputation
  not by number of followers but mostly influence with retweeting and lists
  lets you think like that person thinks
• Twitter will replace SMS for millions of people
  -it is portable and archives across devices
  -you don’t need to remember a phone number
  -you are not tied to a mobile operator
• Twitter might replace Chat for many people, too
  -a DM exchange is very similar to a private chat
  -Twitter lists are very similar to a public chat room
• Location will be one of the most widespread status update
• Private updates will be bigger than public updates
  (my kids say…)
• Public ecommerce 
status updates won’t work
  buying things is very intimate
• Live reviews of any place and product will deeply influence it though
• Promos by brands and retailers will have big success 
for last minute deals
• Talking to shops and restaurants via Twitter will become standard
  and will get opt in coupons as we enter a shop, based on location
• Web will be a fraction 
of mobile use
• Dating over Status updates
won’t be big
• Twitter won’t display 
ads in your main feed
• Users will get too angry at unsolicited ads
• Other revenue opportunities such as pro accounts for businesses will be enough
• There will be more devices publishing updates than humans
  wifi scale, planes, trains, cars all posting updates
• Corporations will have entire teams devoted to Twitter and status updates
• Hyperlocal news sites with Twitter geotagging feature
  (thanks, @stevefarnworth)
• Google and Bing will be the dominant ways to search Twitter
• Google will have its own Twitter and won’t acquire Twitter
• There will be a few alternatives for niche search such as brand monitoring
• Internal Enterprise Twitter like services will become standard
• Vertical Twitter apps 
will start to appear
• Stocktweets is the first one
• Twitter will remain mostly used outside of Twitter.com
• Language will evolve adapting to 140char, concise, ignore rules (thanks, @bernard_d)
• @mentions spam will grow and become a tough to solve issue
• There will be less and less bullshit 
in public events and in general
• It will always be about you, 
not the tools

Oh and that makes 34 predictions, not 30, a few more came in last minute add yours in comments!

If you read French, I gave my point of view on Twitter at Graphical Dream’s blog a few days ago.