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I can't remember the last time I heard anything positive about twitter. And yet people are still addicted to it like crack.
by nuggien 18y ago
I can't remember the last time I heard anything positive about twitter. And yet people are still addicted to it like crack.
- axod 18y agoWho is? Seems like only people who blog a lot or are part of the web2.0 social elite circle. If I didn't read things like hacker news I would have no idea what twitter was.
- KirinDave 18y agoIt's quite popular among some hacker circles. It's generally a useful service. I'd say the majority of people aren't devoted fanatically to it like the fame-on-a-budget blogger2.0 crowd is. People like Arrington are so frantic about Twitter because it's become of their better platforms for building a user base. When it goes down, their business actually suffers, crazy as that seems. For me, it's just a sidechannel to organize meetings (like at a conference) or a place to find/report interesting papers/posts/manuals/libraries. I think the majority of twitter users are like me in this regard: we aren't defining a metric of success by how many Twitter followers we have. In this capacity I find it acceptable, and the downtime is only a minor nuisance that I often don't notice because I just don't tweet that often.
- zach 18y agoThose are the new early adopters. Services that appeal to the blogerati and their particular quirks get endless free publicity. Services aimed at everybody have a much higher hurdle to getting that kind of publicity, and forget entirely about services aimed at web novices. Those have to go after print publicity (oh the horror!)
- Tichy 18y ago"the web2.0 social elite circle" Everybody is free to join, though - hardly the mark of an elite circle.
- dcurtis 18y agoI love twitter. I think it's an awesome service. The problem is the company behind the service. You might hear a lot of complaints about twitter-the-company, but twitter-the-service is generally regarded highly.
- Xichekolas 18y agoTo abuse your metaphor, I can't remember the last time I heard anything positive about crack either, and yet... When your users are so hooked that they act like twitchy crack fiends, you probably have a winning product, assuming you can execute (which is what people are complaining about) and monetize (eventually).