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You must be new to the online world. Twitter is not new. It just brought what existed before to the Internet itself easily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cb_si
by mikecane 16y ago
You must be new to the online world. Twitter is not new. It just brought what existed before to the Internet itself easily: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cb_simulator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cb_simulator
The CompuServe marketers hated that service. They saw no reason for CompuServe to have it or to promote it. Meanwhile, back then, the online world was based on per-hour connect time charges and there were people who had bills of over a thousand dollars a month just from using that part of CompuServe.
- earnubs 16y agoSo, maybe we can say one of the reasons that Twitter succeeded was that marketing was taken out of the hands of CompuServe marketers and their like and put the hands of bloggers and such?
- ehsanul 16y agoNYT, Oprah and various celebrities did play a significant role in marketing Twitter in their later stages of high growth.
- tptacek 16y agoI had a CompuServe account but never spent much time on CB. I have been on chats, from Renegade BBS's on to IRC on to IM, for 20+ years. Twitter is not simply chat; it admits to persistant and semantically meaningful applications layered on top of it. It's like a weird cross between NNTP and IRC, as I see it.
- mikecane 16y agoYes, but the core aspect is the same, no matter the incarnation or revision: People like chatting with other people. The marketers couldn't quite understand that.