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If Twitter did the same thing, would it be spun so positively?

• lapcat 3y ago
  Bluesky is an invite-only preview with fewer than 200K users, just started earlier this year. Twitter is a 17 year old service with more than 200M users. This comparison is not useful.
  • jfoster 3y ago
    The comparison isn't about scalability. It's about spin.
    • lapcat 3y ago
      I know that. I can read. But why in the world should the two networks, of vastly different scale and maturity, be judged by the same standard?
• eddieroger 3y ago
  Twitter got a lot of grace when it had growing pains 17 years ago when it was new. Remember the Fail Whale? It got a name it was handled so positively. So yes, Twitter did get positive spin when it did the same things.
• jmuguy 3y ago
  When a new ice cream place opens and gets overwhelmed because the McDonalds across the street can’t get its ice cream machine to work more than 2 hours a day, it would pretty funny to see a bunch of people dressed like Ronald McDonald whining that the new place gets treated differently.
  • rchaud 3y ago
    The workers wouldn't care. Ray Koch's fanboys on the other hand would have been livid.
    • joezydeco 3y ago
      They also would have corrected you. It's Kroc not Koch. =) Both are assholes, but in different ways.
• spaceman_2020 3y ago
  Twitter has had over 17 years - nearly 10 years as a public entity - to get its act together. You don't expect toddlers to behave themselves, but you do expect 17 year olds to be a little more responsible than toddlers.
• kalleboo 3y ago
  Everyone absolutely ADORED Twitter during its “fail whale” years
• dragonwriter 3y ago
  Is Twitter a small new platform ramping up in scale? Context matters.