The Twiddish iPhone app is a social network dedicated to the collection of photographs of restaurant meals. While some may not care about your tweet on last night’s lobster, others are chronicling their cuisine faster than you can say "bon appetit." The Twiddish iPhone app is an unconventional restaurant review that gets down to the bare essentials--a photo and 140 characters or less. The system gives new meaning to the adage, "a picture is worth a thousand words."
But what about etiquette--or twitiquette? Is it in good taste to fine dine and then pull out your phone and snap a portrait of your grinning whole snapper? Or, is tweeting becoming part of the restaurant experience?
Food-Tweeting Apps
The Twiddish iPhone App Documents Delicacies on Twitter
Trend Themes
1. Visual Reviews - Opportunity for apps that allow users to share visual reviews of products and services, revolutionizing traditional written reviews.
2. Social Gastronomy - Disruptive potential for apps that create social networks centered around food and restaurant experiences, promoting culinary exploration and sharing.
3. Mobile Food Culture - Emerging trend of using mobile apps to document and share food experiences, creating a new form of digital food culture.
Industry Implications
1. Foodtech - FoodTech companies can leverage visual review platforms to enhance customer engagement and provide more immersive food experiences.
2. Social Media - Social media platforms can explore opportunities in the growing field of social gastronomy and cater to food enthusiasts in innovative ways.
3. Mobile Apps - Mobile app developers can tap into the trend of mobile food culture and create apps that enable users to capture and share their food experiences.