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I find it quite unfortunate that this is termed as a "Twitter for comments" rather than just a comment tracker. The application has merit in itself, regardless
by whacked_new 18y ago
I find it quite unfortunate that this is termed as a "Twitter for comments" rather than just a comment tracker. The application has merit in itself, regardless of Twitter's existence and history. This would have been useful even before Twitter.
- omakase 18y agoFair enough. We've found it a useful way to explain the idea of following all your friends comments. There are two ways people are using it right now; following comments by the author (twitter for comments), and searching them by keywords.
- fallentimes 18y agoahem Kayak for Sports Tickets This is straight out of Made to Stick. It gets people to understand what you're saying or building very very quickly. Once you're established, the word linking is no longer necessary. They should have marketed themselves the TicketStumbler of comments, but I digress.
- daniel-cussen 18y agoYoutube was originally "the flickr of video." http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/08/14/youtube_the_flickr_of_video.html http://www.siliconbeat.com/entries/2005/08/14/youtube_the_fl...
- terpua 18y agoI found "Google for comments" to be quite appropriate.
- trevorturk 18y agoI think this is a useful analogy, if only because it uses the "followers" concept.