> Twitter was not an overnight success. The first few years it was ridiculed as a big "completely useless" failure by journalists: the same people which now can

> Twitter was not an overnight success. The first few years it was ridiculed as a big "completely useless" failure by journalists: the same people which now cannot live without it. My opinion: In fact Twitter is still amazingly useless and is a prime example of a product succeeding despite its flaws instead of because something. And no, I'm not this negative towards everything simple. Snapchat for example has a point, I can see the point of it even if I use it even less than Twitter. Twitter succeed because Google botched Google+ after first using all the oxygen in the market together with Facebook.