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You're high. > "It has replaced email for social things" WTF? Maybe for you, if you say so, but people still get several orders of magnitude more social email
by axod 16y ago
You're high.
> "It has replaced email for social things"
WTF? Maybe for you, if you say so, but people still get several orders of magnitude more social email each day that twitter messages have ever been sent.
> It's where people go to converse, to ask questions, to find out what is happening in the world. It's why Al Jazeera paid for sponsored search terms during Egypt.
> Twitter is giving a voice to people that are previously unheard, and in the future, this will be huuuuuge in 3rd world countries - remember that Twitter can work entirely via SMS. We have no idea what is happening in most parts of the world, but with Twitter, we can listen and learn.
That's utter BS. Egyptians on the ground, rioting, don't think "Oooh! I must tweet about this".
I'll give twitter 5 years before it's irrelevant. Maybe 2 years if AOL buys it.
- pclark 16y ago> I'll give twitter 5 years before it's irrelevant. Maybe 2 years if AOL buys it. I'll take that bet thank you very much. :) How about: if Twitter hasn't IPO'd / been acquired for greater than $10Bn in 5 years, you owe me dinner. (we live close to each other remember)
- axod 16y agoDeal, although I'm not sure that's a good criteria. Obviously Twitter is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. If AOL had 100Bn in the bank, maybe they'd buy twitter for 10Bn. But to me, that wouldn't prove Twitter is worth 10bn on an open market, it just validates that AOL is absolutely batshit crazy and likes losing money. Maybe it's just me... Everyone in my extended family uses email regularly. Most use facebook weekly or daily. Twitter rarely comes up at all.