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Twitter Founder Wants to Make Service More Mainstream
- hornokplease 16y agoKey quote: The best part about Twitter is that it allows you to do things like following “what’s happening in Egypt right now. That’s the value, not the brand ‘Twitter.’ So we need to refocus on that value,” [Jack Dorsey] said. “That’s my goal in the next few months.”
- phlux 16y agoThe thing is, that twitter successfully bridges between news source, RSS, stream of thought, push notification, friend feed, gossip channel, marketing tool and rant box. It has the critical mass in its user base. I can only see that @jack will focus on how to make it easier to tap the data flow you're interested in. If you use the cable tv analogy - you need a goot way to flip between all the different channels. I can imagine Twitter trying to work harder at being integrated into the core of the OS. This is where they say they want to be the plumbing; be the plumbing of both human-to-human messaging, machine-to-human, and machine-to-machine messaging. A ticker that runs along the bottom of every screen, color coded tweets telling you meta-context of the stream. Any one of which clickable for more context...