I saw that tent used an xkcd comic to explain it, and was instantly reminded that the audience of tent will never ever become anything close to mainstream
Thing is, what it is now is not necessarily what it will be. Right now it's for the nerds, no question. Twitter was the same thing when it started.
The killer thing about tent is that it is an open, de-centralised social network. It turns out that is actually kind of an awesome way to … ?
It was (and still is) the only way to publish a feed to the internet from any cell phone on the planet. If you can text, you can tweet. Oh and you can also follow other people too. That's killer.
https://support.twitter.com/groups/31-twitter-basics/topics/...
p.s. follow me on http://robertpateii.tent.is
I say leave it to the celebs, plebs and TV networks to use - as soon as my majority circle of followees moves to tent (i.e. the geeks) I think I'd happily ditch Twitter.