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Which made me feel old. This is the funny thing though: the majority of people out there are all older than us! I'm the last of the gen xers, (75) and I can
by run4yourlives 18y ago
Which made me feel old.
This is the funny thing though: the majority of people out there are all older than us!
I'm the last of the gen xers, (75) and I can still say that. With something like twitter that needs to be popular to stay alive; if my initial reaction is "I feel old because I don't get it", that's not a good sign.
- ph0rque 18y ago> This is the funny thing though: the majority of people out there are all older than us! But less so with each passing moment...
- mattmaroon 18y agoIt's not a bad sign either though, because time spent online is almost inversely proportional to age. If you appeal to the younger half of the online population, you're still only losing maybe 1/4 of the audience.
- run4yourlives 18y agoExcept that retirees are the largest growing segment of internet users... and the boomers haven't really retired yet, and are more familiar with computers than those who barely used them at work.
- mattmaroon 18y agoIt doesn't matter. There were enough people on the internet 3 years ago for a product to be wildly successful. Even if 0 of the older people use Twitter, their potential audience is more than large enough. A product doesn't have to appeal to 100% of the population to be successful. It does to be Coke or McDonald's or Google successful, but you can still make a shit ton of money by only appealing to 50%.