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> I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either. First mover advantage and already existing userbase. Its the Windows of Operating
by abledon 3y ago
> I don't see any evidence Musk understands what made Twitter great, either.
First mover advantage and already existing userbase. Its the Windows of Operating Systems. Market domination.
- dragontamer 3y agoYahoo Search, MySpace Social Network, and Digg for link aggregation, amirite? Blackberry smartphones, PalmOS to organize our contacts, Sony Walkmen to listen to music, Symbian Apps, Java ME phone applications. Flash internet content, Juno Email. UltraSPARC systems running SPARC probably won't be beaten by a scrappy open source startup...
- rchaud 3y agoHow can Twitter be a Windows of anything? It is a tenth of Facebook's size, it's unprofitable and it can't bend any tech partners to its will, as shown by the Google Cloud situation.
- afavour 3y agoI think in the OPs example Twitter is the Windows of being Twitter. If you want to use a Twitter like social network, Twitter is still king. Facebook is massive but it will still need to capture mindshare to unseat Twitter.