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I got an invite yesterday and gave a try for half an hour. After I had seen that there is no way to import my twitter contacts, I quit it. It's very ironic for
by diamondhead 15y ago
I got an invite yesterday and gave a try for half an hour. After I had seen that there is no way to import my twitter contacts, I quit it. It's very ironic for a social website to not let people join, to not let its users to connect with other people properly.
- burgerbrain 15y agoNot letting people join is how facebook did it.
- eavc 15y agoThat's not granular enough an explanation. They were strategic about who they let join and when, and that strategy involved admitting entire social groups at once.
- burgerbrain 15y agoAbsolutely agreed. My point is just that it's not an entirely unintuitive idea in the general case.
- diamondhead 15y agoFacebook used to grow methodically. There is no sensible answer of not letting people join a social community. Creating a new profile and looking for friends should be the only cost of users. It sucks to force people looking for invitations because Plus got no community. Plus got no killer feature like Gmail. Plus is not so cool, also. I see that current Facebook users have the motivation to migrate. It's a good thing. But centralized, dominant social websites don't work anymore.
- toyg 15y agoIndeed there is a disconnect between the Google+ "streams" and the old-school Buzz, which does know how to interface to Twitter. That's probably one of the worst problems with the service (which is still technically in "trial mode", for what it's worth).