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Why does this look like a new bubble? Why wouldn't Twitter raise billions in a public offering? Their growth prospects are every web or mobile phone user - in a
by pclark 16y ago
Why does this look like a new bubble? Why wouldn't Twitter raise billions in a public offering? Their growth prospects are every web or mobile phone user - in any country - to use their service. The amount of attention Twitter has from its users is really noteworthy.
- bambax 16y agoThere was a story not long ago on HN (can't seem to find it though) about a blogger who had a special Twitter pipeline to send tweets whenever he blogged, or something. The thing failed silently and stayed broken for two months, and NOBODY NOTICED: neither he nor any of his "followers" (he had more than a thousand). So, having found out about the situation, he decided to stop using Twitter altogether. On LinkedIn I now have to see all the tweets of my "contacts" whenever I log in; this is so annoying that it may push me to quit LinkedIn for this reason alone. People on Twitter are just copying and pasting news found elsewhere; there is an infinitely small proportion of original content: for one "Shit My Dad Says", there are millions of users who only mulch old content from the likes of Digg (RIP) or Reddit or HN. Twitter users are not paying attention to one another; they shout in the desert and nobody cares. This cannot go on forever.
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- mark_l_watson 16y agoI up voted you because I agree that "People on Twitter are just copying and pasting news found elsewhere; there is an infinitely small proportion of original content..." I find Twitter to be very useful because interesting people who I follow post links to interesting stuff. But, not too many fully formed ideas in 140 characters: just links or short funny things, etc.