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Twitter: Where Nobody Knows Your Name
- JayNeely 18y agoThis is one of the main reasons I moved to Boston, the #2 area for startups, rather than Silicon Valley, the #1. There's still a huge amount of web tech people around, but not as much of an echo chamber.
- omfut 18y agoIts an interesting observation. Not many folks even in the tech industry have any idea about twitter. I guess twitter has become a marketing tool for scobleizers and jasons
- justindz 18y agoI was really excited about Twitter (and some similar apps with lots of buzz) and signed up, used the friend importer against all the supported apps I had an account with and... Nothing. FriendFeed? Same deal. Most of the people I've found have been from the public timeline or from HN. Only a few early adopter types that I know from work are starting to show up on Twitter and most of them never post--probably just checking it out. I tell people "it's like asynchronous instant messaging with programmability and succinctness rules." I guess I'm not selling it right because that doesn't get much rise out of most people. FriendFeed is easier to explain, but a vast majority of people I know aren't at the complexity stage that makes it valuable. I'm not really there either, yet.
- superchink 18y agoI definitely think that's the toughest hurdle for Twitter to overcome: there's not an easy way to explain its value to people who aren't already on it, and none of my friends (that aren't nerds) are using it.