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Given what they've done with YouTube in the last few years or so, it doesn't seem quite like they've learned from their mistakes. I'm already seeing jokes about
by CM30 10y ago
Given what they've done with YouTube in the last few years or so, it doesn't seem quite like they've learned from their mistakes. I'm already seeing jokes about YouTube 'advertiser friendly' guidelines and 'YouTube Heroes' as we speak.
Really, the one thing that keeps YouTube going is how expensive it is to compete with it. Twitter doesn't exactly have that luxury.
- vkou 10y agoYoutube comments changes were the last dying breath of the Real Names policy. As of ~2015, it's been dead as a parrot.
- byuu 10y ago> Twitter doesn't exactly have that luxury. Twitter's luxury is its existing userbase. Same for eBay, Paypal, and other near-monopolies. Twitter's software is absolutely nothing special. You could have 95% of the core functionality in two weeks as a solo project. (Granted, it probably won't scale to 320m users right out of the gate ...) The problem is that nobody's going to go and use your new Twitter-like service that has zero users. So if I built a Twitter clone, I'd probably get, at best, 100 very inactive users, no matter how great the service was.