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I really wish a longform document/essay/dissertation was done on how impactful the loss of Google Reader but the thriving of Twitter and Facebook ruined the int
by NN88 6y ago
I really wish a longform document/essay/dissertation was done on how impactful the loss of Google Reader but the thriving of Twitter and Facebook ruined the internet and allowed clickbait and shortform incendiary content to thrive.
- StavrosK 6y agoEvery long form article begins with a single sentence! I'd read that if you wrote it.
- criddell 6y agoWhy not go back further and talk Eternal September? Or maybe about the first green card spam on Usenet? The profit incentive is far more powerful force in shaping the internet into what it is today than any single product demise.
- Spooky23 6y agoAll of those were key events. The death of Google Reader is and remains important milestone for the destruction of the previous iteration of the web and transition to the Facebook/Twitter/YouTube universe of today. Profit is powerful but control is far more so. Frankly, Google fucked up and bit the hand that fed it. That strategy has been financially successful, but did so at the expense of hyper-stimulating Facebook and Twitter. I'd go as far to say that if Google invested in what Reader had represented, a marginal business like Twitter would have vanished or been absorbed long ago.
- criddell 6y agoAccording to Google, Reader usage was in decline for a while before the closed Reader. During that time, Twitter was exploding. Reader was a niche product albeit an important niche with lots of important users.